Dead Family in the Penitentiary by John Broman
Dead Family in the Penitentiary The enchanting days of traveling across the country hitting up every Dead, Phish, and festival show is almost a decade and a half behind me. Only a tour kid could …
Category: Prison Stories
Life in the belly of the beast is rough. Forget “OZ” and “Prison Break.” Read these true raw and brutal tales about living in the netherworld of corruption and violence.
Federal Prisoners lose faith in Congress to pass criminal justice reform bill, pray Obama will do it alone by Robert Rosso
Last fall, when the Senate Judiciary Committee passed S. 2123, the Sentence Reform and Corrections Act of 2015, Carmon Tate-bey felt like many federal inmates. “I felt hope was alive,” said Tate-bey, an inmate housed …
From Addiction to Prison by J. Font
Almost half of the B.O.P.s’ inmate population is incarcerated due to drug offenses. (Task Force staff analysis of B.O.P. FY 2014 data). In 1984, Congress passed the Sentencing Reform Act. This was one weapon in …
How to Shoot Heroin in Prison and Get Away With It
If being a junkie on the street is the exception, being a dope fiend in prison is the norm. In the netherworld of corruption and violence if you don’t partake then there’s something wrong with …
The Slaughterhouse of the South by Judge
Stepping foot onto the most violent federal penitentiary yard in the BOP as a 150 lb. educated, white, middle class suburban kid with dreadlocks down to my ass was pretty scary, however that wasn’t the …
Pedophiles Get Killed In Prison
In prison, there is no creature lower than a sex offender. Even snitches get a pass before these guys. SOs, chomos, pedophiles—the nicknames all mean the same thing, and they help average convicts differentiate themselves from …
Female Prison Guards
As incarceration numbers have topped out in recent years thanks to what looks like the beginning of the end of the war on drugs, women have gained a stronger foothold in the prison industry, getting jobs that—like so many …
Cellphones in Prison
Contraband smartphones are readily available inside America’s vast prison system. Price and availability vary widely, but they’ve been making their way inside the belly of the beast in major numbers for a while now. Recently, reports have …
Gangs Rule in California Prisons
The netherworld of corruption and violence that is the United States prison system is a vicious subculture that has its own by-laws, codes, and regulations. It’s an environment that forces prisoners to toe the line and maintain …
ABT General Turns Snitch
Last month, a federal judge sentenced Terry “Lil’ Wood” Sillers, a general in the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT), to ten years in prison. It was a break offered by prosecutors after Sillers helped get members of his old …