Notes From The Pen

By CaldwellSociety & Culture Documentary

Notes From The Pen episodes

January 15, 2024NFTW (38) - A.I. And Prison Reform
Notes From The Week (NFTW) - Updates of life behind bars and some of the characters who live it every day. Using artifical intelligence to solve prison issues, a former inmate gets banned for life from ChatGPT, and shaming A.I. for not knowing Notes From The Pen.
You can read more about Bobby and prison reform on the website: notesfromthepen.com
Shout-out to JD and Ashley Bell for all their behind the scenes support.
Support our show ⁠https://www.patreon.com/user?u=56777802⁠
it allows us to create these podcasts.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NotesFromThePen
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CJYuOh4pKxa/?igshid=y8lo9kbdifvq
Intro and Outro beats were created just for Notes From The Pen by PJ Trofibio and Jeff Quintero and used with permission.
15 min
January 08, 2024 EP #172 - PEN America And Prison Lightsabers
The rigid activities of prison are constantly dictated to inmates causing the erosion of autonomy, and fostering a challenging emotional landscape. Even well meaning organizations like PEN America can unknowingly contribute to this stress. Also, Bobby explains how convicts use their creative skills to create the prison version of a dic-pic.
Support our show https://www.patreon.com/user?u=56777802
it allows us to create these podcasts.
You can read more about Bobby and prison reform on the website: notesfromthepen.com
Shout-out to JD and Ashley Bell for all their behind the scenes support.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NotesFromThePen
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CJYuOh4pKxa/?igshid=y8lo9kbdifvq
Intro and Outro beats were created just for Notes From The Pen by PJ Trofibio and Jeff Quintero and used with permission.
GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/j3khzk-help-for-a-new-start
51 min
January 01, 2024Bonus: New Year's Day 2024 - A Reminder Of Why We Do This
It worked out that the release of this Monday's episode falls on New Year's Day, and because of the lack of prison phone calls on a holiday I've pulled over some of the more memorable episodes we've done over the past few years. Everyone here with NTFP would like to wish you all a great start to 2024 and we'll be back next week with our normal episodes.
NFTP can be found where ever you listen.
You can read more about Bobby and prison reform on the website: notesfromthepen.com
Support our show ⁠https://www.patreon.com/user?u=56777802⁠
it allows us to create these podcasts.
Shout-out to JD and Ashley Bell for all their behind the scenes support.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NotesFromThePen
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CJYuOh4pKxa/?igshid=y8lo9kbdifvq
Threads: https://www.threads.net/@notesfromthepen
Intro and Outro beats were created just for Notes From The Pen by PJ Trofibio and Jeff Quintero and used with permission.
48 min
December 25, 2023 EP #171 - Bloviation: Rodgers, Chauvin, Blackbeard, And Rocks
America's favorite convict Bobby, and Co-host JD are back for another great episode. This one has just about everything. They discuss Aaron Rodgers talking about Travis Kelce on the Pat McAfee show, Derek Chauvin getting poked & the prison reason why, plus we're are introduced to some new prison characters, and learn about Bobby's new obsession.
You can read more about Bobby and prison reform on our website: notesfromthepen.com
Support our show https://www.patreon.com/user?u=56777802
it allows us to create these podcasts.
And check out the GoFundMe to help with Bobby’s new start https://www.gofundme.com/f/j3khzk-help-for-a-new-start
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NotesFromThePen
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CJYuOh4pKxa/?igshid=y8lo9kbdifvq
Shout-out to JD and Ashely Bell for all their behind the scenes support.
Intro and Outro music created just for Notes From The Pen by PJ Trofibio and Jeff Quintero and used with permission.
41 min
December 18, 2023 NFTW (37) - Prison Pranks And Feeling Frisky
Notes From The Week (NFTW): updates of life behind bars and some of the characters who live it every day. Things left unsaid, doing bits off someone, causing chaos between cubies, and pranking Paulie.
You can read more about Bobby and prison reform on the website: notesfromthepen.com
witter: https://twitter.com/NotesFromThePen
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CJYuOh4pKxa/?igshid=y8lo9kbdifvq
Shout-out to JD and Ashley Bell for all their behind the scenes support.
Intro and Outro music created just for Notes From The Pen by PJ Trofibio and Jeff Quintero and used with permission.
36 min
December 11, 2023 EP #170 - Story Telling; The Joys And Tragedies
America's favorite convict Bobby, and Co-host JD: Living in the moment, the history of story telling and how it relates to us today. I love how they end this one by reminding us to be kind.
Support our show by signing up on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/user?u=56777802 it allows us to create these podcasts.
You can read more about Bobby and prison reform on the website: notesfromthepen.com
Shout-out to JD and Ashley Bell for all their behind the scenes support.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NotesFromThePen
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CJYuOh4pKxa/?igshid=y8lo9kbdifvq
* Intro and Outro beats were created just for Notes From The Pen by PJ Trofibio and Jeff Quintero and used with permission.
51 min
December 04, 2023 EP #169 - Zombies; A Prison Epidemic
In this episode: we have a new NEWS segment on Patreon; and Bobby shares the emotional toll of Monica's death while the drug zombies are closing in all around him.
Disclaimer: We do not support or promote drug use, we're sharing the realities of prison life, as it happens.
You can read more about Bobby and prison reform on our website: notesfromthepen.com
Support our show https://www.patreon.com/user?u=56777802
it allows us to create these podcasts.
And check out the GoFundMe to help with Bobby’s new start https://www.gofundme.com/f/j3khzk-help-for-a-new-start
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NotesFromThePen
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CJYuOh4pKxa/?igshid=y8lo9kbdifvq
Shout-out to JD and Ashely Bell for all their behind the scenes support.
Intro and Outro music created just for Notes From The Pen by PJ Trofibio and Jeff Quintero and used with permission.
41 min
November 27, 2023 EP #168- 38k Mouths And Prison Dentistry
A snapshot of the prison system and their 4 Dentists, who have to treat 38 thousand inmates.
If you liked this episode please visit Notes From The Pen on Patreon and sign up - it helps supply bits of food, coffee, phone calls, and allows us to create these podcasts.
Support our show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=56777802
You can read more about Bobby and prison reform on the website: notesfromthepen.com
Shout-out to JD and Ashley Bell for all their behind the scenes support.

28 min
November 20, 2023 EP #167 - A Show Talking About A Show That's Talking About A Show
he theme in this one is 'variety'. There's a lot in this one you're sure to enjoy.
Support our show by signing up on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=56777802
You can read more about Bobby and prison reform on our website: notesfromthepen.com
And check out the GoFundMe to help with Bobby’s new start https://www.gofundme.com/f/j3khzk-help-for-a-new-start
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NotesFromThePen
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CJYuOh4pKxa/?igshid=y8lo9kbdifvq
Threads: https://www.threads.net/@notesfromthepen
Shout-out to JD and Ashely Bell for all their behind the scenes support.
Intro and Outro music created just for Notes From The Pen by PJ Trofibio and Jeff Quintero and used with permission.
29 min
November 13, 2023 EP #166 - Breaking Boundaries; Convict Code Dilemma
We learn about a new podcast from someone unexpected...or maybe not so unexpected. Bobby continues the convict code dilemma, and how hard it is to navigate the convict code and unravel the internal conflict, choices, and struggle between conformity and individuality.
You can read more about Bobby and prison reform on our website: ⁠notesfromthepen.com⁠
If you liked this episode please visit Notes From The Pen on Patreon and sign up - it helps supply bits of food, coffee, phone calls, and allows us to create these podcasts.
https://www.patreon.com/user?u=56777802
GoFundMe: ⁠https://www.gofundme.com/f/j3khzk-help-for-a-new-start⁠
Shout-out to JD and Ashley Bell for all their behind the scenes support.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NotesFromThePen
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CJYuOh4pKxa/?igshid=y8lo9kbdifvq
Threads: https://www.threads.net/@notesfromthepen
* Intro and Outro beats were created just for Notes From The Pen by PJ Trofibio and Jeff Quintero and used with permission.

53 min

About Notes From The Pen

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A pebble in the shoe of the Prison Industrial Complex. Notes From The Pen is a modern portrait of American incarceration told, in real time, through a series of fifteen-minute phone calls between two special degenerates on opposite sides of a prison wall.