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Column: Better to own up to your mistakes than play the victim

<em>Brian Wood, formerly of Layton, is an inmate at the <a href="http://corrections.utah.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=843&Itemid=163" target="_blank">Utah Correctional Facility in Gunnison</a>. He ...

Column: What it’s like to spend a week in “the hole”

<em>Brian Wood, formerly of Layton, is an inmate at the Utah Correctional Facility in Gunnison. He pleaded guilty to nine felony charges for offenses from 2011 to 2014, including counts of burglary, drug possession and prescription fraud. He could spend up to 35 years in prison, ...

Column: The benefits and amenities of one prison housing unit over another

<em>Brian Wood, formerly of Layton, is an inmate at the Utah Correctional Facility in Gunnison. He pleaded guilty to nine felony charges for offenses from 2011 to 2014, including counts of burglary, drug possession and prescription fraud. He could spend up to 35 years in prison, ...

Column: In prison, you control what you can and not worry about the rest

<em>Brian Wood, formerly of Layton, is an inmate at the Utah Correctional Facility in Gunnison. He pleaded guilty to nine felony charges for offenses from 2011 to 2014, including counts of burglary, drug possession and prescription fraud. He could spend up to 35 years in prison, ...

Experiences using drugs aren’t pleasant stories, but should be told

Yesterday, I was in a class called LIFE offered here at Central Utah Correctional Facility. The instructor came into the room and said, “Everyone into my office, right now!” In his office he played a saved voicemail that was only minutes old. It was from a father of a very recent inmate ...