Comments for The Incarcerated InkWell

Comment on When writing the race of your life by Chris

Chris — Sun, 19 May 2013 13:11:10 +0000

Excellent writing skills on you.
Sounds like you have more time to consider the ramifications of government
prison policies than the government itself.
I would disagree on your comment about Gutenberg.
Gutenberg set free the power of information from the clutches of religion and aristocracy.
Tim Berners-Lee did the same thing again with the “www”.

Comment on Balmed in the Big House by I.M. GreNada

I.M. GreNada — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 02:50:07 +0000

This is why I love everyone named Joan McEwen.

Comment on Balmed in the Big House by I.M. GreNada

I.M. GreNada — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 02:49:25 +0000

Sense? Wow, that’s great. Maybe you could talk to my parole officer.

Comment on Crime is dead. Long live crime! by www.samizdata.net

www.samizdata.net — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 21:38:20 +0000

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Comment on Balmed in the Big House by mark

mark — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:00:11 +0000

keep on writing as i find your words make sense

Comment on Balmed in the Big House by Joan McEwen

Joan McEwen — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 21:09:42 +0000

What an uplifting article. Kudos!

Comment on Lounging in hell by I.M. GreNada

I.M. GreNada — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 03:04:28 +0000

Thanks for the thoughtful nod, Paul. A good friend and treasured mentor of mine once wrote a book called “Justice Behind the Walls.” We often joked that he had missed on the diacritics. It should have been “Just Us Behind the Walls.”
We live in an age of exclusionism and isolation, and we are much closer to the 3rd round of “my country right or wrong” than most people could imagine. Of course, most people doesn’t include the society of atomic scientists who have readjusted their doomsday clock to five minutes to midnight. The bean-counters understand that no one wants to hear. Certainly not from a prisoner anyway.
Keep reading.

Comment on Lounging in hell by Paul Wieg------

Paul Wieg------ — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 22:12:48 +0000

Very interesting reading, i stated my time out from class rooms in grade six, i spent time in two different store rooms, the hall way, a vacant undersized class room,,and the washroom, often with my head on the desk in class as if i was asleep . When i was 15 i figured i had to do this as there was no place to go. I had a good family ,[i think] Myself i never really ever got in to trouble,but i sometimes feel a fool for some of the things i.ve done, Now at 56 i still beleave there is much more good then bad in people, but a little bit of mis behavour can go way over the top ,Sometimes i think there was more good luck a alarge absence of bad luck . Keep up the good writing.

Comment on Surfing the Satanic Verses with the locked down literati by Joan McEwen

Joan McEwen — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 05:14:37 +0000

As (a lawyer/writer) one of Ed’s Matsqui assistant creative writing instructors for 8 months, I have a personal, most unfortunate anecdote.

On what proved to be my last Friday–months of schlepping back and forth from Vancouver, 1.5 hours minimum there and back– our class was interrupted by two dour-faced CSC guards who proceeded, in silence, to escort me out of the room and off the grounds.

Ages later, I was to learn my transgression. I had failed to take the CSC, 3 – hour, volunteer-training program. By the time they got around to approving me to take the course, I’d moved on.

In short, it’s a travesty how CSC treats its volunteers. The stories are legion. The more we interact with inmates in “pro-social” ways, the greater the efforts of CSC to shut us down.

Comment on Burying the stick by Joan McEwen

Joan McEwen — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 22:28:44 +0000

First-rate article. Superbly written with such a deft touch. The writer has a a keen understanding of human nature and all its complications. The pieces keep getting better and better!