Doug's ex-wife hears from felon son

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Oh my.

EFerrari  (1000+ posts)        Mon Feb-15-10 03:33 PM
DOUG'S EX-WIFE, #03 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
Original message

It's been a while since I heard from the kid who is in prison for possession.

I was afraid to open the letter. What a coward.

But he's doing great. He has a job, with about five other guys, of organizing the rest of 300 people. That allows him to be out of his cell for most of the day and night. My kid is a natural leader so I'm not surprised.

It's so hard to think of him in that situation. I have to step very far away from myself to write to him and encourage him and try to amuse him.

He believes that he will be out as a result of a hearing next month. I know so little about this that I don't know if that is a reasonable expectation or not. This is his second "offense".

Please send good vibes to my Nick.

mopinko  (1000+ posts)        Tue Feb-16-10 09:53 AM
THE HYPOCHONDRIAL PRIMITIVE
Response to Original message

1. all the best vibes to nick and to his mom. 

it's hard to imagine what you are going through.

will it be a good thing for him to be out? maybe he is better off not left to his own devices for a while. obviously depending on his circumstances in there. but if he is doing something constructive, and staying clean, maybe it is not so bad.

is there somewhere new that he can go when he gets out? sometimes that is the thing you need. something fresh.

wish i had a magic wand for him. he has a lifelong hard row to hoe, i think. hope he can make it.

EFerrari  (1000+ posts)        Tue Feb-16-10 12:02 PM
DOUG'S EX-WIFE, #03 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
Response to Reply #1

3. He did great in a rehab program where he was residential for about a year.

Imho, that program made an error when they turned around and HIRED him as a counselor after he graduated. He should have been transitioned to a different out patient program and allowed to mind his own program for a good long while. I'm still pissed at them for that.

He was busted for pot possession for sale.

He's going to need structure when he gets out, whenever that is, that's for sure. And testing. Next letter, I have to ask him about that. He is in a program they have there, right now. Who knows what it really is, most of the time, these programs are built to sound good on paper. But at least, he took that step.

[GOBUCKS]

So, just how DUmb is Beth?

He did great in a rehab program

but then:

He was busted for pot possession for sale.

Huh?

But at least there's some good news:

He has a job, with about five other guys, of organizing the rest of 300 people.

He's an officer in the Aryan Brotherhood!!

Maybe when he gets out, he can pile into the camper with poor, stupid Beth, Mom, Crazy Brother, and the two big dogs.
But then, he'd be getting into poor stupid Beth's and Crazy Brother's stashes.

[dutch508]

ah....Why is that thread in the mental health section of DU?  (irony?)

[Karin]

He has a job, with about five other guys, of organizing the rest of 300 people. That allows him to be out of his cell for most of the day and night.

Oh Come On!!!  What the hell is this?  Out of the cell day and night?  Isn't that called a guard?  "Organizing?"  Did she choose that word because that's what lord zero does?  No prison lets an inmate, knowingly and with remuneration, "organize" all the other criminals.  If he has a job, he's scrubbing showers.

[GOBUCKS]

ah....Why is that thread in the mental health section of DU?  (irony?)

Many of poor stupid Beth's best posts are in that section. She's a regular there.

[dutch508]

Oh Come On!!!  What the hell is this?  Out of the cell day and night?  Isn't that called a guard?  "Organizing?"  Did she choose that word because that's what lord zero does?  No prison lets an inmate, knowingly and with remuneration, "organize" all the other criminals.  If he has a job, he's scrubbing showers.

I think that his 'job' is in more of the personal relations satisfaction side of organizing...

[The Village Idiot]

He is ether pushing the book cart or chose which 1947 film to show at the end of the month.