THE GODFATHER OF GRASS JOHNNY BOONE
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 …
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We Asked Inmates How Martin Shkreli Will Get Treated in Prison
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 …
Thirty Days and a Wake Up by John Broman
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 …
The Evolution of a Hitman
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 …
WHITE BOY Premiere
The documentary that I have been working on since I got out of prison to free Richard Wershe, Jr. aka White Boy Rick from his unjust sentence is premiering March 31 in Detroit’s Freep Film Festival …
A Shit Filled Super Bowl Sunday in the Hole by John Broman
Just like the rest of human civilization, I will be watching the Super Bowl on Sunday along with the rest of my inmate population. Inside the prison system we observe EVERY single holiday, as well …
Is Alberto “Alpo” Martinez Out of Prison?
The name Alberto “Alpo” Martinez tends to elicit strong reactions. He‘s been celebrated as a street legend of epic proportions—an iconic figure out of hip-hop mythology who was played by the rapper Cam’ron in the …
How Brazil’s Overflowing Penitentiaries could affect the Olympics
How Brazil’s Overflowing Penitentiaries could affect the Olympics by Niko I’m looking down at my phone screen. There are two burnt bodies, the aftermath of a prison riot. I’m told one of them was a …
Adventures of the Philosopher of Sxxx Drugz & Anarcky
Missives from the Canadian Underground at the Dawn of a New Age Hello. This is the Philosopher of the Black Market, an organized criminal. I mean someone who, tarot cards dealt, ought to make a …
The Wife of Machine Gun Kelly
*These are excerpts from the book Kathryn Kelly: The Moll behind Machine Gun Kelly by Barbara Casey. Several years ago, thousands of our citizens shivered in fear of a kidnapper whose name had much …