"Turning yourself in to be incarcerated tugs against every fundamentally primal instinct we have as human beings," writes Samourai Wallet developer Keonne Rodriguez as he recounts his first night in prison.

Hello Reader.

I am writing to you from the FPC Morgantown in West Virginia. I surrendered myself on December 19 to begin my 60 month (5 year) sentence.

Surrendering yourself to prison is a fundamentally confusing and unnatural experience. One the one hand you are grateful to have been given a little more time with your loved ones, and more time to prepare. You thankfully get to avoid the dreaded "diesel therapy" (This is when the BOP sends you all across the United States by bus or plane, spending a few weeks in different prison settings, with murderers, rapists, child molesters, and the like before arriving to your final designated institution. All the while because you are unable to take classes you are not earning the possible credits needed to reduce your sentence.) and come in on "your own terms".

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