...more bad news...

Journal entry...

4-30-2011

Day 13

  Today I was hit with more bad news. When I was talking to my Mom, she told me that my brother was moving one of my best friend’s stuff out of his apartment. Then filled in the rest of the information. She told me that Jordan (friend) found out that his girlfriend was at a known drug house on his way to work. So he stopped there on his way and got his girlfriend to leave with him. Later he was arrested at work for kidnapping & false imprisonment, after someone at the house called the police on him. He’s one of my few sober friends anymore and we were going to be each others support when I got home. He just had a child with his girlfriend and now he faces losing everything as he is already on probation. It seems like every time I get a decent person to help me in my life, it all falls apart somehow. I pray that everything works out for him somehow.

(Counselor note – The one that came for Easter?)

~J.Doe

Training Day

Written Tuesday, February 8, 2011...

  Today was a typical officer training day.  We only got to leave our cells for breakfast and once right after for showers.  Other than those two times we're locked down for the whole day and get sack lunches for lunch and dinner. Our lunch consisted of a ham and cheese sandwich, four pieces of celery, a snack bag of fritos, a sugar cookie, an orange and a carton of milk.  For dinner we got bolognia instead of ham, cheetos instead of fritos and a granola and raisin cookie instead of sugar.  What a well balanced diet.  I'm glad we got our canteen orders today.  At least then I can get full. 

  Our swamper is scheduled to leave tomorrow so we'll see who becomes the new one after he leaves. 

  I also got a letter from home with some things in it I didn't expect to hear.  It always seems like bad news is worse in prison because you have absolutely no control over what is going on outside of here.  I just don't know what to believe anymore.  I have some thinking to do.

  My cellmate and I played Rummy... Now I think it's time to lay it down for the night.

  Until tomorrow...

~J. Doe