During a 13-year period, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer brutally killed 17 men he lured back to his apartment, promising to pay them for posing nude for photographs. Dahmer would then kill them, cut up their bodies and, in some cases, [...]
Prisoners are some of the loneliest people in the world. Our imprisonment is often a result of our own actions, though not in my case. Still, we are all in the same boat, filled with misery, despair, and loneliness in prison. [...]
“Young brother,” said Old Man John, trying to get my attention away from my computer screen and the furious typing I was doing. “I need you to send an e-mail to my granddaughter.” I laughed, not because I thought it was [...]
I am guilty of a terrible crime and a gross violation of my own ethical code. The fact that I was delusional and out of my mind with irrational fear is not - to me - a satisfactory excuse. Being that [...]
I turned forty recently. (Please hold the applause.) Never in a billion years would I have ever envisioned that I would hit the big 4-0 birthday on death row. Courtesy of Charles Mamou When I was free, I was [...]
With light being shed on police abuse against suspected lawbreakers this summer, I wonder if the public has taken that newfound knowledge a step further. Black lives matter, but do incarcerated lives matter? Have they thought: “If that level of abuse [...]
“Man, this shit is loose up there. One of these bitches is gonna go, but I think it might have to be a white guy.” I can still remember my friend Drew’s face when he said those words to me, an [...]
Summer in Texas prisons are deadly. We don’t use our mattresses to sleep on. We can’t. We have to use them as a barricade. It is pushed up against the wall that has been absorbing the sun's heat from 1 [...]
YOU OVERSLEPT. So you are rushing. Maybe to a call-out or program. You throw on your greens. Lace up your boots. A buzzer screams, long and grating. You glance warily around your cell; you may have forgotten something. You are rushing. [...]
Getting a prison education in California is a joke. Allow me to explain why. When a prisoner gets assigned to school, that is basically his job. The incentives for him to go to school every day are unlimited access to the [...]
