Heyya Patrick’s readers and listeners.
This is David Meister.
I’m putting myself out there – drawing from over two decades of lived experience – to serve as a resource for friends and family of incarcerated individuals, and to provide raw insight into the dailies of prison life in Idaho. I’m not interested in filters, or kowtowing to the bull from prison bureaucrats.
I’ve been incarcerated for 23 years, and I’ve spent many of those years working to better myself, lifting up those around me, and trying to improve the prison system from the inside. I was a model prisoner – hell, I was even employed to create canvas paintings to hang inside the facilities. Beautification.
I hoped and wished and bought into the Idaho Department of Corrections message of a brighter future: dignity, respect, resources, successful reentry into society…
I’ve been disillusioned.
And I’d like to tell you why.
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