Back To Prison…

But hopefully I’ll be getting out about noon.
I’ll be spending at least the morning in a local correctional facility talking to a class of men about to either parole out or “flatten” out (served all their time). There may be an afternoon group, I don’t know.
I’m wondering what to talk about.

I have developed a brief exercised based on the Millionaire Next Door books by Thomas Stanley that will probably get things started.

I’m pondering all that now.

The prison just got off a 10 day lock down due to a gang war where there were several stabbings.

How did I get into this again?

I’m not sure … oh yeah, I was “volunteered”…

But the point remains that in America’s prisons most of the people WILL get out. Some went in before there were ATM cards, cell phones or online job applications.

That’s topped off by a huge sense of alienation from people on the “outside”… so taking time go go “inside” does seem to show that somebody cares.

But unless you help people have a fighting chance to survive, they’re going to turn back to the low tech things they know… crime.

I’ll try to give it my best shot and be back blogging soon.