K2 in Texas Prisons: Dying for a Stick Behind These Bricks
Dying for a Stick Behind These Bricks I walked into a dormitory-style prison unit for the first time on February 13, 2025, at 11:45 p.m.…
Dying for a Stick Behind These Bricks I walked into a dormitory-style prison unit for the first time on February 13, 2025, at 11:45 p.m.…
BEING ABLE TO SIT DOWN AND EXPRESS CERTAIN SECRETS FROM MY CHILDHOOD AND UPBRINGING IS A BIT MORE DIFFICULT THAN EXPECTED. I'm now 44 years…
I’d never heard of Alexis Patterson until I had a conversation with an inmate over the summer (2021) about her. I’ve since learned, through friends…
A mother describes the shock, shame and guilt she feels living with a son in prison — and explains how she found support from other…
Our Virginia writer explains how he followed his daddy into a life of selling drugs, he's been shot 9 times, he killed his best friend,…
When you’re white and you end up in California’s prison system, you have to join a white power gang. You don’t have a choice if…
Working in the food service department sucks. Other than having access to food that other prisoners not assigned to the food service could access, there…
I’ve been asked by Randy to write a few words on how the Texas heat has affected me throughout my 16 years of incarceration. I’m…
An informal, unedited phone conversation between two friends who both agreed to be recorded. One, a former Latin Kings hitman and the other, a female…
Convicts like drugs. A lot. These are their stories… the stories of the most popular drugs in prison. Between 80-90% have some form of substance-abuse…
There are all types of contraband in prison usually due to corrupt staff and visitors who come in. But why do prison guards smuggle contraband…
When I was a big time drug dealer in the street, I had 2 cars, one motorcycle and about $27k cash and I was 21…
Escaping from prison. Almost everyone thinks about it. You’re looking at razor ribbon- covered fences or tall brick walls, and you want to be on…
...officers bringing in drugs, female officers having sex with inmates, inmates masturbating off of female officers, gangs extorting inmates to use the prison phone, inmates…
How Latin Kings operate is simple: in the beginning you’re reeled in with the beauty that comes with the unification between you and your own…
For the past two decades, up until April 27, 2015, I was living in solitary confinement at the only federal Supermax prison in America, ADX…
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