Lost and Forgotten Soldiers
This is a tribute dedicated to all the lost souls, lost lives and casualties of war in this life we call the game. A game is where there are very few winners but way to many losers […]
Fat Cat Returns
Rivalries had existed between the loosely organized hustlers of Hollis and South Jamaica, but the balance of power had never tipped in any one direction until 1981 when ex-con and former Seven Crowns’ member Fat Cat set up shop on 150th Street near 107th Avenue […]
Former Gulf Cartel Leader Gets 35 Years for Drug Trafficking By David Amoruso
Aurelio Cano Flores started out as a cop, turned into a drug lord, and now sits in an American prison where he will spend over three decades behind bars […]
The Life We Chose
The author Dre hails from the City of Chester, Pennsylvania. A former drug dealer turned creative writer. At the age of 23 Dre was arrested and sent to prison. He is currently incarcerated serving a life sentence for drugs and murder crimes inside a United States Penitentiary […]
Prisoner of Dreams: Confessions of a Harlem Drug Dealer by Rick Talley
Prisoner of Dreams: Confessions of a Harlem Drug Dealer is the true story of Rick Talley, a black man who returned from Vietnam with a dream that he made a reality and who then had to deal with the consequences of his actions […]
Young Boys, Inc.
Sprouting up in the late 1970s on the city’s West Side around the areas surrounding Dexter, Monterey and Linwood Avenues, Young Boys, Inc. started out as a small group of loosely connected drug dealers sharing …
With Cigarettes Banned In Most Prisons, Gangs Shift From Drugs To Smokes
As tobacco bans have spread across prisons nationwide, cigarettes have grown into a contraband item of choice, rivaling illegal and illicit drugs in their availability and profitability on the black market […]
Inmate in ‘the Hole’ – for Practicing Journalism?
Seth Ferranti, federal inmate 18205-083 and a writer for The Daily Beast, The Fix, and elsewhere has been held in the Special Housing Unit, or solitary confinement, at FCC Forrest City in Arkansas […]
Mexican Cartels Tap U.S. Prisons to Expand Operations and Draft New Talent
Mexican cartels are identifying and recruiting talent in American prisons, seeking “free agents” to connect on their release with their south-of-the-border counterparts in the ever-expanding drug job market […]
Dajuan from Westside Piru
My birth government is Dajuan. As a youth I went by Dajuan, or Lil’ D. However throughout my time in prison I took on an alter ego of Lil’ P Nutt. During that time it was a name that was only known on my block in Compton, or in my neighborhood […]