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.
You fucked up. You let your cellie know you were selling caps of weed and the next thing you know S.I.S. was pulling you up in front of the chow hall ...
"Man, I knew Seattle was gonna lay down on me. I fuckin’ knew it. Something told me, ‘Don’t take Seattle on the road,’ but did I fuckin’ lis ...
As tobacco bans have spread across prisons nationwide, cigarettes have grown into a contraband item of choice, rivaling illegal and illicit drugs in t ...
Seth Ferranti, federal inmate 18205-083 and a writer for The Daily Beast, The Fix, and elsewhere has been held in the Special Housing Unit, or solitar ...
Mexican cartels are identifying and recruiting talent in American prisons, seeking “free agents” to connect on their release with their south-of-t ...
maxim"In the joint, magazines can be the difference between life and death if someone shanks you [...] ...
At the United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, there exists a cell-block known as the "Dog House." For historical purposes, the Dog House, ...
In the Penitentiary, everything you've done, all the time that you put in none of that really matters. Of course it can always come back to haunt you. ...
A recent USA Today headline touted, Prisons unlock mysteries at new tourist destinations. It went on to say how there's new glamour in the slammer and ...
Derek Caldwell is a street cat who grew up in East New York in the rough Brooklyn borough. He ran the streets from an early age, without direction, ju ...
This whole nightmare has been running since July 17th, 1994 for me. I started this bid off with two years flat for a controlled buy. Eight months befo ...
Everywhere you turn and look in our inner-city neighborhoods you constantly hear about the crime and violence on the rise. It’s even in the suburbs. ...