Gorilla Convict

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  • July 3, 2017
In 30 days, after 15 years of living inside the most violent penitentiaries the United States has to offer, I’m finally scheduled for release on ...
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  • March 10, 2017
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 eventuall ...
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  • February 5, 2017
Just like the rest of human civilization, I will be watching the Super Bowl on Sunday along with the rest of my inmate population. Inside the prison s ...
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  • January 19, 2017
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 ...
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  • November 29, 2016
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 ...
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  • May 15, 2016
I Got Locked Up in the Hole for Interviewing the WTC Bomber by Judge “What they get you for?”  Pete Pretzel, a 49-year-old “good ol ...
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  • January 26, 2016
Prison Shot Caller When I first came to prison, all I wanted to do was die. I was 23 years old and just received almost as much time as I had been ali ...
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  • December 6, 2015
My Road to Rehabilitation at USP Hazleton by John Broman, Federal Prisoner #20121-068 This month as part of President Obama’s prison reform efforts ...
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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 ...