In the Beginning...

OK, what topics will we start with?

Do we use an open-format, or should we establish as short set of proposed topics just to get things moving.

What topics will people want to discuss? Should be include aspects of the prison experience? This place is nothing like I expected it to be, and I think the average person has absolutely no idea what prison is really like. It is nothing like you see on TV. I think people who know me might be interested in what prison is really like, but I don't really know if that would interest anyone else. One of the problems is that there is a wide range of difference between federal prisons (high/med/low security), and state prisons. I am not sure about private prisons (those run by private corporations), and I only have an outsider's view of state prisons in Oklahoma. I did my internship in Stringtown as an administrative assistant, which means I know virtually nothing about the way the prison was run, and everything about how the copying machine and coffee maker operated.