George Jung transported tons of cocaine from Colombia to the United States for Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel. His story was featured and dramatized in the movie Blow that starred Johnny Depp and the investigative book Kings of Cocaine […]
What has become known as the Supreme Team was a crew organized in the early 80s in the vicinity of the Baisley Park Houses, a public housing project in Jamaica Queens, New York by a group of teenagers, who were members of a quasi-religious sect known as the Five Percenters […]
Cell phones are more common in prison than you would think. All across the country in our nation’s prisons, prisoners are using cell phones to run their criminal enterprises, conduct business and stay in contact …
Pat O’Connor is a true crime journalist of note. He has been the editor and publisher of Crime Magazine since its inception in 1998. He is the author of The Framing of Mumia Abu-Jamal, which was published by The Chicago Review Press in 2008 […]
We used to say things like, “playas have fun/and suckas have none” or “real niggas don’t tell, we go to jail” and things that meant something like “the game is bought, not taught, sold; not told” and the classic that has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the subject “pimps up, ho’s down.” Still get a kick outta that one […]
Bo Brown is a real street dude and he pens real street novels. Currently in the feds, with a life sentence due to his alleged activities with Miami’s infamous Boobie Boys crew, Bo is doing something positive and writing reality based urban fiction stories from the penitentiary […]
The Four Corner Hustlers founded by Mr. Walter Wheat of Chicago’s Pulaski Road of the Westside is currently the largest of seven remaining tribes included inside of the Almighty Vice Lord Nation […]
In 1974, Frank Matthews, history’s first African American drug kingpin, jumped bail inNew York Citywith $15 to 20 million and ostensibly a beautiful girlfriend […]
Straight out of the penitentiary comes Shakim Bio with his first book, Love, Hell or Right from Mikahs 7 Publishing. Buried in the belly of the beast for almost two decades Shakim Bio has written a riveting and moving book on building and maintaining a relationship with doing time […]
The Boobie Boys were one of Miami’s most violent gangs responsible, according to the Miami Dade Police Department, for more than 35 murders and 100 killings over an eight-year period, beginning in 1993 […]
