The Short Side Blues Book II of The Short North Trilogy is a story that deals with change, which is easier said than done. A wise person once said that there are two ways out of the dope game: Death or Prison […]
Glenn Langohr is a man that knows prison. He spent 10 years inside the belly of the beast for drug charges and he was locked down in California’s notorious Pelican Bay Supermax for four of those years […]
Legendary figures of the drug game have been the province of myth and hearsay until the rise of hip-hop, where rappers name check weaponry by style and drug dealers by name […]
Only real hustlers know about the Game God. He’s one of those mythical entities that exist for the purpose of keeping order in the land and establishes law where there is none […]
With the success of American Gangster, the fictionalized story of drug lord Frank Lucas’ life, more and more true crime books on inner-city street legends, hustlers and players have been appearing in popular culture. What the street magazines, Don Diva and F.E.D.S. started […]
Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would end up in federal prison. Maybe you find yourself in the same position now and that is why you are reading this book. I can’t tell you what choices to make now that you find yourself at this juncture in life […]
Christian Cipollini, Co-Founder of www.knockbacks.com and Seth Ferranti, True Crime Author & Founder of www.gorillaconvict.com who is currently incarcerated, share the story of how, “We have become business associates and great friends as well […]
With the recent capture of the infamous gangster Whitey Bulger and the arrest of 83-year-old Howie Winter, from Boston’s notorious Winter Hill gang, (see accompanying article), Irish mobsters are back in the news. When Bulger went on the lam in 1995, the streets of Boston became a warzone as the Italian Mafia […]
When I first entered the netherworld of prison in 1993 the last vestiges of the convict were dying out. The convict was the ultimate prison ideal which has existed in prisons throughout the ages and has been portrayed and glorified in countless Hollywood movies […]
Michael “Fray” Salters (above center-in hat) has been dead thirty years but his name still carries weight up and down the drug corridors on the East Coast; including his home base of Washington, D.C. […]
