Last month, a federal judge sentenced Terry "Lil' Wood" Sillers, a general in the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT), to ten years in prison. It was a break offered by prosecutors after Sillers helped get members of his old gang sentenced to nearly 1,000 total years behind bars. For a career prison gangster like Lil' Wood, this is a big ... [Continue Reading]
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 snitch, the other one was a prison officer, but they both look like a pile of ash and bones to me. The guy that shows me this grisly footage, ... [Continue Reading]
The Rise of the Soldiers of Aryan Culture
The Rise of the Soldiers of Aryan Culture by Robert Rosso Shortly after the turn of the century U.S. Attorneys nationwide began targeting violent white prison gangs by using the federal "RICO statute," a federal statute originally intended to dismantle or destroy the upper echelon of the five New York crime families. Among the gangs indicted ... [Continue Reading]
Video Visits
Video Visits by Robert Rosso When Inmate Michael Miller learned that prison officials at the women's Federal Corrections Institution (FCI) in Waseca, Minnesota were installing a Skype-like video-visitation system, he assumed it would only be a matter of time before all institutions within the Federal Bureau of Prisons would follow suit. "I ... [Continue Reading]
Big Pharma in Prison
Big Pharma in Prison by Robert Rosso The first time that I heard of the pharmaceutical drug Gabapentin was back in June of 2000 while I was in the Special Housing Unit (SHU) and the United States Penitentiary (USP) in Leavenworth, Kansas. Following a drunk and unruly "group demonstration," I was extracted from my cell, chocked to the point of ... [Continue Reading]
The Recidivism Trap
The Recidivism Trap by Jeremy Fontanez The United States incarcerates more of it’s citizens than any other nation. With only 5% of the world's population, our country houses 25% of the world's prison population. In 1992, our federal prisons housed less than 93,000 prisoners, but today there are more than 197,000 prisoners in the federal system. ... [Continue Reading]
Thoughts on Gitmo
In the not so distant pass President Obama went to the microphones and made a pitch to close down Guantanamo Bay. Under current law, in order for Congress to approve such a move the Obama Administration would first have to explain where the detainees will be placed. As a federal prisoner, I would like to throw my two cents in on this. On ... [Continue Reading]
Hope of Release for a Lifer
Presidential Pardons, Criminal Justice Reform and Going to the Hole at FCI Terre Huate by Robert Rosso It was Monday night, January 4, just after 7:30pm, and I was standing in front of my locker, pen in hand, working on an article as I was listening to the radio. In my ear was the voice of Mark Levine, the popular conservative commentator best ... [Continue Reading]
Bureau of Prison’s National Menu by Robert Rosso
The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has been in the national spotlight as of late due to a recent policy change about pork products on the national menu. Beginning the first week of October, inmates housed in the Bureau's 122-facility's were no longer being served pork or pork products. But then a couple of days later the Bureau of Prison after ... [Continue Reading]
Islamic Law Dictates Federal Prison Menu by Robert Rosso
Federal Prison Menu Inmates confined within the Federal Bureau of Prisons( BOP) are no longer being served pork or pork products, a measure taken by prison officials to accommodate the Muslim population. In June, prisoners at a Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Indiana were informed by kitchen staff that begging the first week of ... [Continue Reading]
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