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The Truth Shall Set You Free

May 9, 2018 by Seth Ferranti 3 Comments

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY9_lVppSww On Nov 24, 2004, William Avery Jr went to Detroit FBI agent William Beachum and stated that he wanted to discuss the 1991 murder of Marsha Blakely. Avery Jr told the agent that he changed his life, gave up drugs and wanted to come clean and clear his conscious now that he ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Featured Story Tagged With: Al Monday, Murder, Ohio, Shakim Bio, wrongful conviction

THIS WHITE DUDE WAS A MEXICAN MAFIA LEADER

March 18, 2018 by Seth Ferranti 7 Comments

By the time Joe ‘Peg Leg’ Morgan joined the Mexican Mafia, he was already a jailhouse legend. Because of his reputation, which included murder, bank robberies and jail escapes – he became the unofficial Godfather of the Mexican Mafia – a race-based prison gang that calls the shots in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Publications Tagged With: BOP, bureau of prisons, Convicts, gangs, Gangsters, joe morgan, la Eme, life sentence, Mafia, mexican mafia, Organized Crime, Prison, Prison Gangs, Prison life

THE LIFE OF AN ARYAN BROTHERHOOD SHOT CALLER

March 18, 2018 by Seth Ferranti 16 Comments

BARRY "THE BARON" MILLS IS ONE OF THE MOST NOTORIOUSLY VIOLENT LEADERS OF THE INFAMOUS ARYAN BROTHERHOOD. John Marzloff was almost decapitated in a recreation yard bathroom at USP Atlanta, a high-security federal prison in Georgia on May 20, 1979. The convict’s head was partially severed from his neck, and 16 stab wounds dotted his ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Publications Tagged With: AB, Aryan Brotherhood, bureau of prisons, Convicts, Prison, Prison Gangs, Prison life, prisoners

THE GODFATHER OF GRASS JOHNNY BOONE

March 18, 2018 by Seth Ferranti 10 Comments

JOHNNY BOONE GREW MARIJUANA ON AN INDUSTRIAL SCALE UP IN THE APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS IN KENTUCKY. AFTER GETTING BUSTED ONE TO MANY TIMES, HE WENT ON THE RUN TO AVOID A LIFE SENTENCE. When I touched down at FCI Manchester, a federal prison in the foothills of Kentucky in 1993, Cornbread Mafia leader Johnny Boone was already a legend ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Publications Tagged With: BOP, Johnny Boone, kentucky, marijuana, outlaw, pot grower, Prison

THE EX-CON NOVELIST WHO PLAYED MR. BLUE IN RESERVOIR DOGS

March 18, 2018 by Seth Ferranti Leave a Comment

THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF A HARDCORE CRIMINAL WHO WROTE HIS WAY OUT OF A CELL AND ONTO A HOLLYWOOD SET. Edward Bunker was born under a bad sign and his mama made damn sure he knew about it. Legend holds that when Bunker entered the world on December 31st, 1933, Hollywood was being pelted in a tsunami of rain that beat down on the ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Prison Stories Tagged With: actor, Convicts, Edward Bunker, Gangsters, Hollywood, novelist, Prison, Prison Gangs, Prison life, writer

What Joey Merlino’s Verdict Means for Philly’s Mob Scene

March 18, 2018 by Seth Ferranti Leave a Comment

We asked three Mafia experts what the hung jury means in the greater scheme of things. Seth Ferranti Philadelphia mob boss Joseph “Skinny Joey” Merlino beat racketeering charges on February 20 thanks to a hung jury. The trial was a part of 2016’s much-ballyhooed East Coast La Cosa Nostra indictment. Merlino's mistrial is a major ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Street Lit & True Crime Tagged With: Joey Merlino, Mafia, mobster, Organized Crime, Philly

We Asked Inmates How Martin Shkreli Will Get Treated in Prison

March 18, 2018 by Seth Ferranti 1 Comment

The infamous pharma bro just asked to be placed in a minimum-security "camp" facility. Here's what current federal prisoners think he has coming. Seth Ferranti Image by Lia Kantrowitz/Photo of Martin Shkreli by Peter Foley/Bloomberg via Getty Images Right before he was sentenced to 84 months in federal prison last Friday, ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Featured Story Tagged With: bureau of prisons, Convicts, Martin Shkreli, Prison, Prison life, prisoners

Thirty Days and a Wake Up by John Broman

July 3, 2017 by Seth Ferranti 2 Comments

In 30 days, after 15 years of living inside the most violent penitentiaries the United States has to offer, I'm finally scheduled for release on July 31st. Just writing these words seem like a dream to me. When I first entered the system as a young 23-year-old junkie with a 16 and a half year sentence for armed bank robbery, I KNEW my life ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Featured Story Tagged With: BOP, Federal Prisons, John Broman, Judge, Prison, Prison life

John Gotti’s German Enforcer

May 5, 2017 by Seth Ferranti 3 Comments

Suited up and sporting a pompadour, “the German” can be seen lurking menacingly outside John Gotti’s social club, the Ravenite, in FBI surveillance footage and news clips from the 1980s. A feared gangland gunslinger, Joe Watts played a pivotal role in organized crime as a strong-arm enforcer who wasn’t afraid to put in the “work.” While relatively ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Street Lit & True Crime Tagged With: crime, earner, enforcer, Gangsters, Italian, Joe "The German" Watts, John Gotti, Mafia, mob, Organized Crime

The Evolution of a Hitman

May 5, 2017 by Seth Ferranti 20 Comments

Nate Craft, aka Boone, slid the door to the van open and let loose with a Mac-11, but as the gun jammed and Boone cursed his luck, the white Jeep got away. He’d been planning this assassination for two weeks, tracking his target, making notes of his movements and studying his routine. If a guy on his hit list had the same routine for two days ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Featured Story Tagged With: assassin, Best Friends, Crack Era, Detroit, Drugs, hitman, Murder, Nate "Boone" Craft, politics, violence, White Boy Rick

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