Can you translate this? I have the keys for my Car but my Road Dogs are disappearing on me. One was 5150 and Did the Dutch, one left on Back Door Parole, one is a BB Filler on his way out. Two are in The Hole (one for Keistering a cell phone), one is jacked up on Brake Fluid (he's got L [...]
So you’re looking for love? You’re one of those who has yet to find that person to walk your journey with. You’ve decided to widen your options to include those who are currently incarcerated. You’ve listed all of the pros and [...]
Solitary confinement is now firmly embedded in this country’s prison system. Indeed, the control units that specialize in housing prisoners in solitary by the tens of thousands throughout the US have become the new normal. Slowly, people out in society [...]
Texas has so many prisons its motto should be "The Gulag State" instead of The Lone Star State. After the 1990s decade of massive prison building, Texas' prison system grew from 27 units to 116 by 2000. The state lost 3 [...]
I spent the first few years of my natural life sentence muttering incoherently to myself and chewing my fingernails to bleeding nubs while I contemplated the most painless methods of suicide for American prisoners. How’s a 23-year old kid supposed to [...]
January 20, 2020: Listening to NPR, I hear something about a mysterious disease that alarmed China into building 2 hospitals in 5 days to handle patients. After also hearing the Chinese government will let citizens fly all over for the Chinese [...]
Covid19 has affected Ohio's prisons like it has the outside population, slowly. As things have slowly clamped down out there, they have clamped down in here. The first change happened on Tuesday the 10th when most evening activities were cancelled. For [...]
The hole, the new term for solitary confinement. It’s the place they take you when you break one of their “rules,” or at least they say you did. It’s supposed to be a deterrent from future acts of whatever they deem [...]
Two young men recently asked me, “What gang are you in?” “I’m in a one-man gang,” I said. “The Norman gang.” I am an “old-timer.” The fact that I have survived over 36 years in Florida’s worst prisons without compromising my [...]
Sixteen years later, that day still played in my head as clear as a Blu-ray movie. I still saw Frank's raised eyebrows when, in broad daylight, he announced, "We're taking that." A nine-millimeter semi-automatic stuck out of his jeans pocket. I [...]
The dark days we're stuck inside. The light is broken, and it's sweltering from the radiator-heater and no ventilation. Day- in and day-out, nights are the same. They don't have -never have had- a beginning. They'll never end on their own. [...]