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Father’s Day 2019
AUTHOR’S NOTE: What follows are 2 posts-from-the-past, The first, was written by my Son, Anthony, just a couple of months after I entered prison in 2010. The second was written by me, 3 years later. Anthony spent a couple of … Continue reading →
Recycling An Opportunity
AUTHOR’s NOTE: This post originally appeared here in “The Oakdale Chronicles” on January 21, 2013. I was about midway through my incarceration at the Federal Correctional Institution at Oakdale, LA, and had joined a public speaking group many of you … Continue reading →
Don’t Touch the Stove (The ‘lost’ post)
By Tony Casson (AUTHOR’S NOTE: I found a draft of this post originally begun in November of 2012 by my beloved son, Anthony, from the chicken scratching I sent him. For some reason probably related to the fact he was … Continue reading →
Evil Is Seductive
(Author’s Note: What follows was originally posted in 5 parts here in The Oakdale Chronicles very early on during my incarceration. It is the story of my attempted suicide and the week that followed while I was kept in a … Continue reading →
Do you really want to reform our prisons?
The following is something I posted on Medium.com recently: No dialogue on prison reform is complete without a serious look at the profit incentives found in the privatization of many of this nation’s prisons, both federal and state. I will … Continue reading →
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September 29
TODAY IS… a splendid day to make sure that we are readily identifiable. “Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are My disciples.” John 13:35 NLT A disciple is defined as “a follower.” While the … Continue reading
September 29
TODAY IS… a splendid day to make sure that we are readily identifiable. “Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are My disciples.” John 13:35 NLT A disciple is defined as “a follower.” While the … Continue reading
September 29
TODAY IS… a splendid day to make sure that we are readily identifiable. “Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are My disciples.” John 13:35 NLT A disciple is defined as “a follower.” While the … Continue reading
“The Hope That Lies In Harmony”
”So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them … Continue reading
