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Beauty & The Beast…
17
June

A good friend of mine took me aside at a benefit that I spoke at last Friday concerning Marie Mason and Eric McDavid doing draconian sentences in federal prison.  He asked me, soto voce, if I really wanted to get a ride home with another friend who had offered.

All ships come to Justice...

“Why not?” I asked.

“You don’t know what happened?” he said.

I realized that he was talking about a drug bust this other friend had recently sustained. He was obviously concerned with my potential legal exposure given my continuing elderly offender home detention status. A reasonable concern.

I chuckled about it and blew the matter off. I took the ride.

Nevertheless, it’s a good topic to address and was in part the subject of my dissertation for a doctorate in psych. more…

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Charlie & the Snitch MaSheen…
29
October

In the fifth year into my 20+yr prison experience (1995), I recall watching the prosecution of Hollywood Madam to the Stars, Heidi Fleiss, on TV.  My kind of girl.  Certainly had more balls than snitch-actor Charlie Sheen—who testified for the prosecution.  Heidi’s assessment of Charlie about sums him up:  “The guy’s a rat!”

Heidi Fleiss

Impressed by Heidi after her conviction for state crimes (tax-evasion, money-laundering and pandering), I wrote a letter to the judge suggesting that they send her to FCI McKean, PA, for community service.  We’d have treated the girl right!  I never got a response.

You’d think that Charlie would’ve grown up at some point.  He’s certainly a successful actor.  The behaviors he managed to get tagged for are relatively impressive.  more…

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Hate & Hypocrisy in the Home of the Brave…
18
October

Given the news over the past weekend, I’m reminded of some time I spent in Mississippi in ’63 and ’64.  I was lucky…Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner, not so lucky…

House that blood built...

Many years later, I had an acquaintance in one of the federal prisons—don’t even recall his real name, everyone called him Mississippi Mud.  He was an old guy in a wheelchair and he’d been convicted on some ancient civil rights case…a lynching.  Mud was quite a character. more…

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Final Justice?…
29
September

The State of Virginia executed Teresa Lewis last Thursday, September 23rd, by lethal injection.  Her life at 41 and her prison sentence is thus concluded.

She was convicted of  hiring two young men to kill her husband and his son for the insurance money.  All three pled guilty to the crime.  Only Teresa got the death penalty.  Like the rest of the public, prisoners are conflicted on the question of the death penalty.

Those who opposed her execution included novelist John Grisham, political activist Bianca Jagger, and a petition of the European Union.  They cited her IQ of 72 among other factors for leniency.

A score of 70 would have exempted her from execution in Virginia.  As a doctor of psychology (PsyD), I can assure this readership that the methodology to determine such a score is problematical enough that a few points one way or the other is totally subjective. The final score is purely an artifact of the person making the determination.   more…

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“See no evil…”
12
August

Just as one sister, Marilyn Buck,  is released (only in time to die at home 3 wks later, saving the Bureau the expense), another fills her space at the infamous FMC Carswell, a women’s federal prison in Texas—a state that never quite got over its wannabe-slave roots.

Marie Jeanette Mason, 48, #04672-061.  “Eco-terrorist.”

I thought they’d listen.  I meant to inspire thought and compassion for those without a voice in the world.  I thought to create a consciousness where innocence reigns…I thought to bring reason and justice to a Nature that spent uncounted millions of years to achieve its measure of wisdom.

     While Carswell claims to be a medical facility, it is in fact a catch-all administrative center for female prisoners (the largest growing demographic in American criminal “justice”).  The primary care provided by the BOP and its “medical” personnel, is essentially documentation—a paper chase.  Actual care, much less medical procedures, is virtually non-existent.  FMC Carswell is a prison, one of the worst. more…

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In Memoriam – Marilyn Jean Buck…
05
August

December 13th 1947 – August 3rd, 2010.  I’ve lost count of the number of judicial murders I’ve witnessed over the past 20 years…

Marilyn Buck

One hot afternoon in Amman, Jordan, 1970, just days before the Black September massacre of an estimated 25,000 Palestinians (mostly refugees) by the Bedouin armed forces of King Hussein, I was a journalist (NBC News, Beirut) covering the Second World Conference by the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS).  There were some 1,200 international delegates attending the event.

Just as Yasser Arafat was entering the hall to give the keynote address, surrounded by a strong phalanx of armed guards with AK-47s, an American “student” stood up in the middle of the assembly, pointed at me in a back row, and shouted, “________! You’re a Zionist pig!  You’re an enemy of the revolution!” more…

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Lindsay Lohan, into the Light…
08
July

Okay, the latest nymphet hits the skids.  Lindsay Lohan, I suppose, should take up some ink for a scribe or two…

Thank you, Lindsay...

As both a prisoner pundit and a doctor of psychology, I do, as a matter of fact, have a thing or two to say.  Not to worry, I won’t waste too much space on the subject.

The little darlin’ was a 4-yr-old when I started this 25-yr prison bit back in 1990.  She became a “name,” being a child fashion model, actress, and singer (I’ll demur to Wikipedia for all that; I really have no idea who or where this current crop comes from or who they are…).

Apparently, a lot of faux news folks make a living pursuing them, and a whole lot more seem to enjoy watching them.  Go figure.

I’ll admit I felt some empathy (not being a sociopath) watching the court scene recently where the judge gave you 90 days.  Not to worry, Linds, it ain’t nothing like you imagine (listen to Robert Downey Jr.). more…

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