Life in the belly of the beast is rough. Forget “OZ” and “Prison Break.” Read these true raw and brutal tales about living in the netherworld of corruption and violence.
“TIME TO STEP YOUR GAME UP” ” Olivia…….this late…….got distracted on her way….to Grandmother’s house…… A wolf in lamb clothing came….blew her mind…and changed her ways…now she’s turned out……lost and turned out…….she’s lost and turned …
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 …
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 …
Dead Family in the Penitentiary The enchanting days of traveling across the country hitting up every Dead, Phish, and festival show is almost a decade and a half behind me. Only a tour kid could …
Last fall, when the Senate Judiciary Committee passed S. 2123, the Sentence Reform and Corrections Act of 2015, Carmon Tate-bey felt like many federal inmates. “I felt hope was alive,” said Tate-bey, an inmate housed …
Almost half of the B.O.P.s’ inmate population is incarcerated due to drug offenses. (Task Force staff analysis of B.O.P. FY 2014 data). In 1984, Congress passed the Sentencing Reform Act. This was one weapon in …
If being a junkie on the street is the exception, being a dope fiend in prison is the norm. In the netherworld of corruption and violence if you don’t partake then there’s something wrong with …
Stepping foot onto the most violent federal penitentiary yard in the BOP as a 150 lb. educated, white, middle class suburban kid with dreadlocks down to my ass was pretty scary, however that wasn’t the …
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 …
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 …
