I am so glad I had the priveledge to see the movie, War Room, with my Life Group. I have to admit, since applying Miss Clara's war room, my quality of prayer has greatly improve. I not only know who and what I am praying for, but I actual have strategic pray life that makes sense; that I can follow and easily adjust as God directs me because I can see Him in my plans more clearer. My target prayers go up on my bedroom wall. And I immediately receive scriptures from the Holy Spirit to use in my prayers.…
I agree with your post. I also felt that with each state having a myriad of laws that aren’t necessarily congruent with other states, let alone the federal government, would make it difficult if not impossible to have a single court. Therefore, with the way our system is set up, it is a necessity to have a multi-tiered court. When looking at the downside, I hadn’t contemplated the fact of jurisdictional conflict.…
We were recently given the opportunity to visit the County jail in downtown Cleveland. I have heard many great things from past students who have taken Women and Crime but many of them mentioned how nerve-racking it was. Although I was flustered even before I stepped into the building, every step we took, getting closer and closer to the actual cells made me more anxious. The closest I have ever been to a jail was watching one on T.V. so I had certain expectations of what I would see.…
If I decided to do illegal. I will never bring intimate people to involve with. Either relatives, best friends and especially parents. Because I don't want them to suffer and get harmed. So, my prisoner B is a stranger.…
Vroom Vroom, is the sound of a child predator taking off with your child. Child predators are people that spend time trying to lure children into coming with them. I'm going to share my experience with a child predator. One day I was in Walmart. There was a guy riding a hoverboard and he asked me so I said no.…
It was a small court room, and the room was filled with all sorts of people. I think there were some that was there for court and some were there to hear someone’s sentencing. There was a banner you could see as you walked in at the front of the room that said” Show up, Be honest, and Try”. To my left of the court room there was a jury box with people in it, I thought there was a trial going on, but actually there were two people in orange and I believe the other people were counselors for their program.…
The day that the sheriff's department broke down my door and searched my house was the day I decided I would never want to get into the world of drug using drug dealing. I was sixteen and living with my parents and my sister. At this time my parents had a friend who knew a drug dealer named Gabriel. My parents got acquainted with him one time and soon regretted it. I always thought he was the most annoying person I had ever met.…
Let's flash back about, oh, 20 years. I was new to the Texas Panhandle, seeking to learn the ropes about the community where I had just moved. I got a call one day from the then-assistant warden of the William P. Clements Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. The prison official, Rick Hudson, invited me to tour the maximum-security lockup in northeast Amarillo.…
There’s a little slice of Heaven in Marshall, Texas, where the sun shines through the pines and the sound of cicadas serenade you throughout your afternoon and the lake shines like a plate of polished silver in the early morning sun. When I first came to Camp Fern, I was on my own. Everyone else had known each other for at least two years, so I was the odd one out. In my cabin there was the usual sort. There was the popular one, the attention seeker, the joker, and the one you love to hate.…
I was so shocked as I was taken to be put in the back of the police car to be driven to a local jail by the police after the party. I started trembling on the way unable to process what had happened. Previously I only had spent a few minutes at the party and didn’t realize my friends wanted me to go a party with drugs and alcohol. Upon arrival at the prison there were tall electric fence that surrounded the premises. On the top of the fence I was able to see the vividly sharp barbed wire at the top that was there as extra protection to make sure no one could escape.…
Then a hood covered my head. “Don’t make it harder for us,” the hangman whispered. The hood was as dark as a funeral scarf, I kept on hoping that they would distinguish me, that they would stop the hanging and free me. I got to know that there was no hope, when the countdown began.…
After desperately explaining what happened, Norman calls the police. The dining room window smashes and glass pieces scatter across the floor. He’s here, he has followed me to your house. What was next to come was unknown but Norman grabbed for his rifle and stood right in front of me. As the mysterious man climbed through the broken window, Norman fired a shot.…
It is 7:23 a.m. on a Thursday morning, the pass allowing tardiness to first hour is tucked away in my tattered blue backpack. I sit in my car gazing at the quiet building. I have seven minutes to make it up the staircase, adorned with two lamp posts. I, along with many others, have visited Morgan Federal, the bank across the street, countless times and never realized just what was in the vicinity. A friend who works next door in the courthouse suggested I profile this place and gave the directions: “It’s in the old jail,” as if that was a common reference automatically understood.…
I lost my green color jacket inside the library today (12/24 evening), and again later within few minutes I could get that from Public Safety. I had a dark brown color stone/rock inside one of its pockets. It was not there. Probably it may have fallen when checking the pockets. Did you find anything?…
I am a professionally qualified correctional officer with seven years of experience inside a corrections facility. A consist fair but firm peace keeper. It is my new hope to secure employment in a position as challenging and rewarding, to utilize my educational and prior experiences to reach out to others.…