I know nothing about you, I've not looked you up and even if I did it would only tell me the police version of your story, which I do not care about. That said, I hope you will remember that the people in charge of parole processes in your state and country, and everywhere else for that matter, are full of shit. Just like me, they know nothing about you unless you tell them. Unlike me, they will never admit this obvious truth. They are too invested in their own self-righteous egos to acknowledge how little they can possibly know about you, your past, and of course about the future. Do not take them seriously. Play their game to gain release if you must, but do not let them control your mind. Arrogance often comes with power but that doesn't make either of those things right.
I'd like to help but more information may be needed. I searched for Diane, no luck. Then I searched for Steven and found one person in Kentucky with a San Diego phone number. Could that be the right one?
Please remember it's very important if you are asking for help with this sort of thing to give as much info as you can (age, city, relatives, etc), and to be sure to spell everything carefully and correctly. I don't know if you spelled this name right, but the only hits I found on two websites were for the name "Maggiora", not "Maggoria". And the former is a much more common formation in Italian names, whereas the latter, your spelling, is not familiar to me at all. This is not a criticism. I want to help. If you think what I've found is a plausible lead please let me know. I will dig further if you can give me more to work with. Be well.
Thanks for writing! I finished the transcription for your post.
Sorry to seem like a nitpick, but sometimes the fancy lettering makes it very hard to read. It seems the person who attempted to transcribe this before me gave up from an illegible word. I also could not make out the word, but I hope you don't mind that I skipped ahead and finished the transcription without the final line of the second Haiku. Be well.
I've heard my fair share of hustles, and not all are corrupt. Some are however, and whether they are linked to the system or linked to other offenders, profiting to the detriment of the other is morally wrong. Justification and rationalization doesn't change the fact that by just "doing what I have to, to get by," makes someone else's time...harder. The prisoner code may say some hustles are acceptable that the prison code disallows, and vice versa. That doesn't even matter in ethics; in ethics, the end does not justify the means. If both codes say the hustle is acceptable, I would wager no other offender suffers for its use. I could give examples but I chose not to jam up anyone's game. The house I lived, in my youth, had a motto everyone laughed at: "Desperate men...desperate measures." I understand know exactly how humorless that motto is.
Hi Dymitri; I transcribed your letter, I hope I did not make mistakes, as I am Italian my English it is not perfect. I agree with all you wrote.The ability to believe in ourselves is fundamental for our correct psychological balance and for our psychophysical well-being. Alberto from ITALY
I realise you said there will be follow ups to this post, but it seems to deserve some reply now. Am I correct in assuming you, as a prisoner yourself, believe that the "finger of blame" (which so far as I can tell could just as easily be the middle as the index) should be pointed by prisoners at prisoners? It seems a bit like a slave on a transport ship directing his anger at the person next to him for getting his diarrhea all over him, or for trying to stretch his tragically cramped limbs in the hold where they are the cargo. Perhaps these neighbors-in-misery could behave in ways more optimal for each others' comfort, but at the same time, who is REALLY to blame there for the discomfort? The less than perfectly considerate fellow slave-to-be, fellow kidnapping victim, or the people who forced him into that god-forsaken boat to begin with? Many of us out here will uphold your right as a prisoner in a deeply injust system to complain as you see fit, and I suppose that has to extend even to those who choose to point the finger at their co-sufferers rathen than at their captors. But perhaps you'd reconsider a bit?
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Please remember it's very important if you are asking for help with this sort of thing to give as much info as you can (age, city, relatives, etc), and to be sure to spell everything carefully and correctly. I don't know if you spelled this name right, but the only hits I found on two websites were for the name "Maggiora", not "Maggoria". And the former is a much more common formation in Italian names, whereas the latter, your spelling, is not familiar to me at all.
This is not a criticism. I want to help. If you think what I've found is a plausible lead please let me know. I will dig further if you can give me more to work with.
Be well.
Sorry to seem like a nitpick, but sometimes the fancy lettering makes it very hard to read. It seems the person who attempted to transcribe this before me gave up from an illegible word. I also could not make out the word, but I hope you don't mind that I skipped ahead and finished the transcription without the final line of the second Haiku.
Be well.
Do you have any more poetry or other things to tell us? People are listening!
Adding a little humour to a sometimes overserious blogsite. Good idea! Stay with it.
I transcribed your letter, I hope I did not make mistakes, as I am Italian my English it is not perfect.
I agree with all you wrote.The ability to believe in ourselves is fundamental for our correct psychological balance and for our psychophysical well-being.
Alberto
from
ITALY
Am I correct in assuming you, as a prisoner yourself, believe that the "finger of blame" (which so far as I can tell could just as easily be the middle as the index) should be pointed by prisoners at prisoners? It seems a bit like a slave on a transport ship directing his anger at the person next to him for getting his diarrhea all over him, or for trying to stretch his tragically cramped limbs in the hold where they are the cargo. Perhaps these neighbors-in-misery could behave in ways more optimal for each others' comfort, but at the same time, who is REALLY to blame there for the discomfort? The less than perfectly considerate fellow slave-to-be, fellow kidnapping victim, or the people who forced him into that god-forsaken boat to begin with?
Many of us out here will uphold your right as a prisoner in a deeply injust system to complain as you see fit, and I suppose that has to extend even to those who choose to point the finger at their co-sufferers rathen than at their captors. But perhaps you'd reconsider a bit?
In peace and solidarity.