Trouble in The Prison Visiting Room
FWOP! It shocked me even though I saw it as it happened — Snake walked up to the woman, punched her in the face and then roughed up her husband. About a month before, Snake was in the yard when [...]
fellow inmates
Acts Of Kindness Are Rare in Prison But This Really Happened
What would you expect to find in a maximum-security prison? Convicted felons? Of course. Spontaneous violence? Check. Gang members? Plenty. Humanity? Come again? “This is the last place I’d ever want to be sick,” I thought as I stared at the [...]
The Aliens Within Us
Here, "normal," i.e. civil, is as alien to prisoners as criminal activity is to decent people. Therefore, it is difficult to embrace change when it could result in being attacked or harmed in other ways.