be different this time? i don t have the answers. okay. perfect. i m sick and tired of being sick and tired. i m tired of the same road i was going down the wrong path and i want the good path. let me tell you a couple of things about it. we do 12-step meetings, relapse prevention, life skills, big book study and we do a men s group. the hardest part of the program is what we call accountability. what s going to go against the whole jail code, that means that your peers will hold you accountable. we don t use the word snitch, we don t use the word rat. so if you re doing something some violation of the rules and regulations, have you have an opportunity to hold yourself accountable and if you don t your peers will. i m ready to make a change and. enough is enough. they sound real good, but who doesn t sound real good. they say all the right things. but the test is going to be once they actually get in the program.
part of recovery is that you ve got to help somebody else. you have to help someone else. after near lifelong addictions that have kept them both coming in and out of jail, john carroll and joe smithsson were recently accepted into the program. one of the things i shared with them is the hardest part of the program, is for them to hold each other accountable. we use the word accountability, because i care enough about you, i want to hold you accountable because you can t see everything that s wrong with you. the message seems to have gotten through to smithson. mr. smithsome has been very motivated from the outset. he participates in daily morning meditation, meaning that s either going to read something or he s going to comment. he s very attentive in all education sessions. when you look at him, he s always taking notes and asking questions. but three weeks in, carroll is out of the program. what happened with mr. carroll was there was a disagreement between two of his
he got up out of his rack, went to the bathroom area, put on his shoes, which is an indication of threatening and intimidating behavior. and as a result of that, he was put out of the program. the penitentiary mentality still running. again, he wants to put his shoes on and fight people, and it wasn t even his problem. it was somebody else s problem, but they was in the penitentiary together. you know how to goes. he s a good person and everything, when it comes to a friend, but when it comes to the program, he was just telling everybody what they want to hear and stuff like that. i ain t dogging him. i m not saying something i wouldn t say to him. it s an accountability program. it ain t about rats and snitches, it s about helping each other out. the expectation is job respects each other. smithson will continue on in
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is out of the program. what happened with mr. carroll was there was a disagreement between two of his peers. he got up out of his rack, went to the bathroom area, put on his shoes, which is an indication of threatening and intimidating behavior. and as a result of that, he was put out of the program. the penitentiary mentality still running. again, he wants to put his shoes on and fight people, and it wasn t even his problem. it was somebody else s problem, but they was in the penitentiary together. you know how to goes. he s a good person and everything, when it comes to a friend, but when it comes to the program, he was just telling everybody what they want to hear and stuff like that. i ain t dogging him. i m not saying something i wouldn t say to him. it s an accountability program. it ain t about rats and snitches, it s about helping each other out. the expectation is job respects each other. smithson will continue on in enough is enough, and now it s time for destiny van