R.R. Hicks's Blog, page 4
April 29, 2015
The Ice Cream Truck and Baltimore
What happened to Freddie Gray? I have no idea. Obviously. I do, however, have an inkling. As would anyone ever transported by police, sheriffs, marshals, Correctional Officers, or any one else in law enforcement who transports more than one prisoner at … Continue reading →
April 25, 2015
Thank you Paul Kirchner
Filed under: Commentary, Prison and 'the System', This Book Ain't for Reading Tagged: criminal justice system, freedom, leaving prison, prison, prison memoir
April 24, 2015
The Falcon, and History, and Reviews, and Stuff
Thank you so much for allowing me to read “The Falcon.” I have been reading Civil War fiction for over 50 years, and I can scarcely if ever remember reading a book that did the subject more justice than did … Continue reading →
April 20, 2015
Adventures in Writing #342, The Underwear Bandit
A metal table, headphones on listening to the Red Sox, flying through an early chapter of The Ceremony of Innocence, I was oblivious to my surroundings. For a solid ten minutes before two bags of potato chips, a box of … Continue reading →
April 13, 2015
Jailhouse Lawyers, Part One
My first contact with a jailhouse lawyer, amazingly, did not occur until a good three months into the netherworld of the DOC. Netherworld being a trip to court. A mainstay of the ‘backstairs justice system’ the court trip is something … Continue reading →
April 11, 2015
Prison Bookends
September 5, 2005, Bridgeport Jail – mid-afternoon, I met my first DOC counselor, a short, overweight, 30ish white woman who projected an air of wanting to be anywhere except in a windowless office in a jail that should have been … Continue reading →
April 7, 2015
Odds and Ends from a Long Week of Bad History, Bad Law, Trolls, and …
“There are in this country, as in all others, a certain proportion of restless and turbulent spirits – poor, unoccupied, ambitious – who must always have something to quarrel about with their neighbors. These people are the authors of religious … Continue reading →
March 27, 2015
The Past Isn’t Dead . . .
I wrote a little about the Hanlin Novels, their titles, and WWI a few days ago. Well, it goes both ways with the Civil War – William and the war as tethered to the past as they are precusor to … Continue reading →
January 12, 2015
Slush Piles and Jailhouse Lawyers
Originally posted on Forlorn Hope Publishing:
There are a lot of myths – in and out of prison – about the ubiquitous ‘jailhouse’ or ‘prison’ lawyer. Those inmates that really do have all the time in the world to dedicate to a case and think outside the box. The ‘box’ here being reality. Lawyers in…
There are a lot of myths – in and out of prison – about the ubiquitous ‘jailhouse’ or ‘prison’ lawyer. Those inmates that really do have all the time in the world to dedicate to a case and think outside the box. The ‘box’ here being reality. Lawyers in…
January 6, 2015
Dogs in Coats
Running by the Farmington River this afternoon, among dogs in coats and people in sparkling new running shoes and clothes, a few things popped in now that 2014 is out of its misery. Any year that takes Tony Gwynn, Robin Williams, Jann Hooks, Elizabeth Pena, Harold Ramis, & Philip Seymour Hoffman way too early wasn’t really […]
