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  • Prison Stories

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.

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  • December 6, 2015
There has been a lot of press recently about prisoners using drones to smuggle drugs into prisons. It would seem that the practice has trans ...
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  • October 23, 2015
A Message from Shakim Bio If I should die…don’t cry my niggah….just ride my niggah…bust bullets in the sky my niggah..when I&# ...
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  • October 23, 2015
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 me ...
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  • October 15, 2015
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 p ...
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  • October 1, 2015
The number one threat to a correctional officers safety isn’t the inmates they’re paid to oversee, it’s the actions of their fellow ...
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  • August 14, 2015
The politics of programming in the penitentiary can be complicated because of how the system is set up. There are over two hundred thousand peopl ...
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  • July 23, 2015
          Little things (The Aftermath) After the riots, Garth’s name carried weight through the whole system. He was a ...
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  • July 16, 2015
Little Things There are so many small, seemingly insignificant things that happen in prison that can set off an eruption of violence. Everything behin ...
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  • June 13, 2015
Join crime historian, ex-prisoner of the war on drugs and journalist Seth Ferranti as he visits the National Crime and Punishment Museum in Washington ...
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  • June 8, 2015
Prison in the UK People hate criminals. Understandably so, because as a civilian if someone put hands on you or someone you love you’d be pissed too ...
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  • May 11, 2015
Special Management Units ADX Florence the Super Max federal prison in Florence, Colorado holds the distinction as the worst prison in the world. A cer ...
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  • May 7, 2015
The Odyssey of a Prison Journalist Everything these days is online and social media is at an all time high. A virtual reality updated by the second. C ...