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 …
Category: Prison Stories
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.
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 …
Almost Home by Judge
Winding down a prison sentence is like walking across a frozen lake. It’s painfully slow and you’re bound to bust your head, but eventually you’ll succeed…or die trying. I have been incarcerated for almost 15 …
“TIME TO STEP YOUR GAME UP”
“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
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 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 …
Dead Family in the Penitentiary by John Broman
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 …
Federal Prisoners lose faith in Congress to pass criminal justice reform bill, pray Obama will do it alone by Robert Rosso
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 …
From Addiction to Prison by J. Font
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 …
How to Shoot Heroin in Prison and Get Away With It
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 …