Sleep and Escape

For convicts doing time, sleep and escape may be the only
way to retain sanity. Stick drives this concept home for those who have never experienced
incarceration.

2^nd Chance University partners with
organizations/institutions dedicated to those who have stumbled. Our material
and empowering workshops are about real people, real life, and real issues.

Take note of what Stick has to say and respond to the
insight questions honestly.

Edgar Allan Poe referred to sleep as small slices of
death. Truth is, sleep is the only escape from these walls many of us will ever
obtain. Sadly, the meager reprieve of sleep fades into the sickening awareness
of where we are.

Insight

Other than their physical bodies being held in prison, where do you think an inmates mind is at and why?

The gray morning rises with icicles hanging from the bars of the penitentiary. Frigid cement floors bite our bare feet as we make our bunk and wash our face for another day. The harsh grating sounds of the steel doors sliding open signal most of us that it’s time for work.

We step out from what we call our house, but most people would call a cell, into a condemned miniature population. Some of us are inmates, some of us are convicts, but everyone here wears white as well as time.

Stick

Insight

As Stick mentions, everyone wears white as well as time, but some are inmates and some are convicts. If you were to go prison, do you picture yourself as an inmate or as a convict (why one and not the other)? 

I believe in hope, I believe in people, and I believe in
second chances.

I welcome your stories to be added into our series. If
you chose to share or support, email me directly. For those wishing to
introduce 2CU and our programs into an organization, institution, or facility,
please step forward; together we can make a difference.

Danny Huffman
407-878-0474
2^nd Chance University
dhuffman@2ndChanceUniversity.org
www.2ndChanceUniversity.org