(2 days later) I am in the law library... that's where I spend about 2 hrs in the mornings at least three times a week looking up cases and researching 7:30 am to 9:30...... trying to find a case that can get me back in where I can get some rhythm.... When I first walked in the education department... I had to walk past the Leisure part of ... [Continue Reading]
The Blurry Truth – Opinion Column
A violent Reality By Jeremy Fontanez Someone once asked me, "Why is there so much violence in the penitentiaries?" It was a good questions. one to which I didn't have a clear answer. So, I pondered the question, searching beneath the surface of the cases of violence in the penitentiaries. My thoughts lead me down a rabbit hole with ... [Continue Reading]
Shakim’s Hood- These Dudes Ain’t My Friends
" I feel like a Black Republican.... money I got coming in....can't turn my back on the hood...I got too much love for them....can't clean up my act up for good....got too much thug in him....probably be back in the hood...I'm like fuck it then"......"Black Republican"........Nas featuring Jay-Z.... I been locked up out here in the state of Ohio ... [Continue Reading]
THE EX-CON NOVELIST WHO PLAYED MR. BLUE IN RESERVOIR DOGS
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]
The White Devil
The White Devil John Willis was in a parking lot next to a man whose number was up. The guy had a hit out on him, unbeknownst to John, and a gunman walked right up to the man and blew his brains out. As he fell to the ground dead, John looked at the big hole in his head, blood flowing out onto the pavement. The assassin went to shoot John next, ... [Continue Reading]
The Aryan Brotherhood’s Grip on Prison Heroin
The racist ideology of America's most notorious prison gang has long been subordinate to its lust for drug money. Federal crackdowns have yet to break the Brand. Michael "Big Mac" McElhiney (shirtless) and friends Prison is a place where racial hatred is routine, where gangs rule the roost and heroin is the most valuable ... [Continue Reading]
Pedophiles Get Killed In Prison
In prison, there is no creature lower than a sex offender. Even snitches get a pass before these guys. SOs, chomos, pedophiles—the nicknames all mean the same thing, and they help average convicts differentiate themselves from those they like to believe are the real monsters. A recent report from the Associated Press suggests inmates in the ... [Continue Reading]
Female Prison Guards
As incarceration numbers have topped out in recent years thanks to what looks like the beginning of the end of the war on drugs, women have gained a stronger foothold in the prison industry, getting jobs that—like so many others in America—have traditionally been dominated by men. But along with that progressive change has come ... [Continue Reading]
Cellphones in Prison
Contraband smartphones are readily available inside America's vast prison system. Price and availability vary widely, but they've been making their way inside the belly of the beast in major numbers for a while now. Recently, reports have emerged about prisoners in the US (and abroad) making rap videos, posting on social media sites like Facebook ... [Continue Reading]
Gangs Rule in California Prisons
The netherworld of corruption and violence that is the United States prison system is a vicious subculture that has its own by-laws, codes, and regulations. It's an environment that forces prisoners to toe the line and maintain the status quo, or else suffer the consequences. And one of the golden rules is that when you are beholden to a prison ... [Continue Reading]
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