Notes From The Pen

Notes From The Week (NFTW) - Updates of life behind bars. This week's update; Bobby watched the documentary 'Exposing Parchman' AND gets an in-person visit with a surprise appeara...

Few things are more familiar to the American inmate than the dissolution of meaningful relationships. After mourning the death of yet another friendship Bobby struggles to understa...

A recent conversation about jello wrestling triggers a memory when Bobby saved a life while at work. AND Bobby has two, count them, two in-person visits coming up.  You can read m...

Prison technology; the good, the bad, and the ugly. No matter how much pressure is put on the necks of inmates and their families, we'll keep sharing our journey of life behind bar...

Notes From The Week (NFTW) - Updates of life behind bars and some of the characters who live it every day. Waking up with stress, Mama C cries, Du Bois, and Bobby finds a life hack...

After pushing off a more serious episode about the failures and solutions of our failed mass incarceration the topic changes to inmates who sleep during the day and stay up all nig...

This is a short and sweet episode...well...because finding working phones in prison is becoming harder and harder. NTM the facility where Bobby is housed, is constantly closing the...

Notes From The Week (NFTW) - Updates of life behind bars and some of the characters who live it every day. You can read more about Bobby and prison reform on the website:  notesfro...

Prisons can exploit an inmate's lack of advocacy by denying basic rights and perpetuating unjust treatment. Those who don't have anyone to help fight for them are often tossed asid...

Bobby makes fun of his narcissism as he tries to decide what his pen and stage name will be. He wishes his name was as cool as some of the people who write him. What do you think w...

Writing a commutation is an emotional experience for Bobby as he pours his heart and soul into his letter. It's impossible to write without feeling remorse, regret, and sadness, wh...

Bobby & Co-host JD start out spinning laps and sharing stories, but take a turn with sharing the death of GR Joe's mom (Kim). Bobby reminds us all just how far reaching the fai...