(2 days later) I am in the law library... that's where I spend about 2 hrs in the mornings at least three times a week looking up cases and researching 7:30 am to 9:30...... trying to find a case that can get me back in where I can get some rhythm.... When I first walked in the education department... I had to walk past the Leisure part of ... [Continue Reading]
THE LIFE OF AN ARYAN BROTHERHOOD SHOT CALLER
BARRY "THE BARON" MILLS IS ONE OF THE MOST NOTORIOUSLY VIOLENT LEADERS OF THE INFAMOUS ARYAN BROTHERHOOD. John Marzloff was almost decapitated in a recreation yard bathroom at USP Atlanta, a high-security federal prison in Georgia on May 20, 1979. The convict’s head was partially severed from his neck, and 16 stab wounds dotted his ... [Continue Reading]
We Asked Inmates How Martin Shkreli Will Get Treated in Prison
The infamous pharma bro just asked to be placed in a minimum-security "camp" facility. Here's what current federal prisoners think he has coming. Seth Ferranti Image by Lia Kantrowitz/Photo of Martin Shkreli by Peter Foley/Bloomberg via Getty Images Right before he was sentenced to 84 months in federal prison last Friday, ... [Continue Reading]
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 at a federal prison in Indiana where I also reside. "I've been hearing talk and whispers about laws changing for 25 years, but ... [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]
The Intangibles of Prison Etiquette by Judge Broman
There are things that we do in prison that take some time to get use too. The intangibles of prison etiquette is very distinct. Little habits or quirks that don't make all that much sense when you first come inside. But eventually over the years they become as ingrained in your routine as breathing. Or, your eyes get opened REAL quick another ... [Continue Reading]
How Prison Inmates Get on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
In prison convicts are denied access to the social media outlets that people in the free world use every day. But as more and more prison systems are allowing prisoners to send and receive emails social media is becoming available to those buried inside the belly of the beast. Check out this article on VICE I wrote about the situation- ... [Continue Reading]
Cruel and Unusual Punishment
More than 2.2 million Americans are incarcerated, 95 percent of whom will be released back to society. Hundreds of thousands are released every year and the majority is released without any form of transition therapy. Due to a lack of support and no transitional assistance, when inmates move from prison to the free world, every ex-con returning to ... [Continue Reading]
Ex-Realness
What exactly is ex-realness? We heard of ex drug addicts, ex-convicts, ex-wives, ex-husbands, ex this ex that. “Ex means: former, out of, one that formerly held a specified position or place.” So it should come to no surprise what “Ex-Realness” is. Me and some of my close comrades were in the unit’s exercise room doing sets of excessive dips on ... [Continue Reading]
Lost and Forgotten Soldiers
This is a tribute dedicated to all the lost souls, lost lives and casualties of war in this life we call the game. A game is where there are very few winners but way to many losers. To all the soldiers who hugged the block, whether it’s a city block or jail house to prison block. All the street generals, colonels, sergeants and lieutenants, who all ... [Continue Reading]