#1 Ingredient in Prison Food? Water.
Aside from the obvious fact that water is needed throughout the day to hydrate the body, it has absolutely no dietary value. So why is our prison food constantly being watered down? The answer is … Money.
Paul Gardner
Contributing Writer
Posts by Paul Gardner:
How I Earned A “White Flower” in Prison
Here I was, months into a jail sentence that was going to be the beginning of my prison sentence. I had no idea how many years I was going to get in the slammer this time. The fact that I was [...]
Thank You, Prison Writers!
Enter PrisonWriters.com. Here we have an organization that is going out of its way to make sure that our voices and stores are escaping this black hole we call prison to be published and posted on the internet for everyone in the world to see. Furthermore, each article written by each prisoner is labeled with the inmate’s name and Doc #.
Prison Talk 101
I’d like to take a moment to shine a little light on an English sub-dialect, “Prison Talk.” This form of English is one-part slang, one-part 1940’s gumshoe detective jargon, and one-part ridiculous degradation of English itself.
I Count Four Social Classes in Prison
Inmates, just like people in free-society, are divided into social classes. After years of incarceration in Arizona, I’ve noticed four distinct social classes of prisoners: The Indigent-but-Content The Beggars The Hustlers The Supported Two things work in unison to determine [...]