Brilliant Minds in Captivity. Roger W Upchurch

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      Chapter Five

      Home is where the heart and soul are

      The body is only imprisoned.

      Before I got here, I thought that everyone in prison needed to be there. Now I know that is not the case for a lot of people. They may have done knowingly or unknowingly made a mistake and the Federal Prosecutor got them indicted guilty or not. Another feather and quota for them. The punishment is way too severe in most cases for first-time nonviolent so-called crimes I think most that you should get is one year and maybe some home confinement or something rather than warehoused in a camp, playing cards, basketball, baseball, Cornhole watching TV, watching movies, reading, eating great food and taking naps every day. What a life while your spouse or family struggles to make ends meet. I forgot some inmates must work jobs in the BOP and get starting pay at twelve cents an hour.

      There is a lot of talk about prison reform and sentencing reform and one bill that passed the house with a lot is up to get a vote in the Senate if Senator McConnell will bring it to the floor for a vote. President Trump said that he would sign it when it got to him. This bill has a lot of good things in it including any First Time nonviolent inmate that is sixty years or older will get released after two-thirds of their sentence served, and that includes me. You can find more about it at www.firststepact.org.

      It is true that as a criminal in prison, the prison will make you a better criminal. Who needs to go to school, this is a school for stealing, lying, cursing and some teachers are the officers?

      I keep telling my temporary friends that I do not lie, cheat, or steal and did not curse much at home. These teachers are so good in here and it does rub off. They are very consistent as they say about every other word.

      I am sure that there are a lot of men and women that are in prison by association, in a conspiracy which they did not do anything wrong or maybe at the wrong place at the wrong time. The Federal Government, DOJ can indict and put people in prison just because someone said that he or she did something or were with them on crime. They do not need proof or evidence that you did commit a crime. They take someone else’s word for it, hearsay. You cannot do that in a state case, the jury or Judge must prove that you are guilty by evidence. In the Federal DOJ, you are Guilty Til Proven Innocent.

      Yesterday Tom Brady and New England beat Jacksonville to advance to play the Eagles in this year’s Super bowl. The Super Bowl is in Minneapolis Minnesota. Another cold-weather Super Bowl. Last year it was in New York it did not turn out well.

      When it was in Indianapolis a few years ago the weather there was and no colder than fifty degrees the whole week.

      My company Daddy Real Entertainment was going well, and we had our bands on three stages in Super Bowl Village which were Georgia street that was closed off. There were several stages and tents set up for bars. There were several national acts in the Village including “Bret Michaels”, “Here Come the Mummies” and more. Madonna performed at halftime and she put on a great show. Super Bowl was the highest-rated Super Bowl ever. The New York Giants defeated the New England Patriots for the Championship.

      Indianapolis has a grand tradition of putting on large events and is in the running for another Super Bowl.

      One reason is that there are so many dining spots, bars, and shopping within a brief walk from arenas, which is Bankers Life Fieldhouse where the Indiana Pacers of the NBA play, and Lucas Oil Stadium home of the Indianapolis Colts.

      Indianapolis has the third most conventions in the US and the Convention

      The Center is all tied right there together. The state-of-the-art Indianapolis Indians baseball park, the Indianapolis Zoo, and a few museums there. Indianapolis has the headquarters for the NCAA and host the NCAA Final Four basketball tournament every four years and usually a regional game every year. It also hosts the Big Ten Football Championship every year

      There are fourteen fine steak houses downtown including St Elmo's which is world renown for is Hot, Hot, cocktail sauce.

      It is so hot it burns your nose. Sometimes at halftime of the Pacers games, they have a contest of a few people and to see who can eat the most in an amount of time, they are brave people.

      Indianapolis has become a magnificent vacation spot as well. It second only to Washington DC for the most monuments in the United States. One of the best Children’s Museum in the states. Indy downtown has a lot of nightspots with live entertainment including the Slippery Noodle which is the oldest blues bar in Indiana, and it is said that it is haunted in the basement there. Who Knows!

      Indy also has the largest Christmas Tree in the States. Lights hang from the top of the monument on the circle.

      They also have the DEA office and that is where you can go and get the picture taken and fingerprinted if you get indicted by the Federal Government. Just thought that I would throw that in.

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