I arrived on Tuesday around 9:30 and am very thankful that my wife and daughters were able to drive me to the prison camp here in Montgomery Alabama. It was about a three hour drive. After giving the girls hugs, two corrections officers picked me up in a van and drove me to the camp. It took about 90 minutes or so for me to get processed and to get my clothes, toiletries and bedding. Then they took me to the housing unit where I will be quarantined for a few weeks. I have to say that all my interactions with the officers here have been professional, some not talking much, and others freely giving advice and direction, which I appreciated. I was then taken to medical for my intake screening and returned back to the unit.
The unit I am in reminds me of my freshman dorm in college. It looks like an army barracks with painted block walls and an open plan with walled-off cubicles. There are only two of us here, in a unit that normally houses about 40 people. We have to be here for 14 days and then take a 3-day COVID test to be released to the regular housing unit. If any new arrivals get here within that time, our clock goes back to zero and we start again. Hopefully that won’t happen, but we will see.
The food is about what you would expect. We get three square meals a day, so nothing to complain about there. We have a lot of free time since we are kept in the wing, so I get a lot of writing and reading done. I don’t really have a lot more to say at the moment. I think I will start writing my next blog and it will be about some more business issues and ways to be successful in small or large businesses. In my last business ventures, I advocated four pillars or cornerstones to our culture: Integrity, Intensity, Speed, and Tenacity. More on those cornerstones and their importance on the next blog! Take care everyone!