In the Hat Interview
The Mexican Mafia or Eme is one of the most notorious and powerful gangs in Southern California. They are allegedly running things from the penitentiary to the streets of LA […]
Vickie Stringer – Keeping it Real?
Triple Crown Publications is the first name in street lit, the booming genre of raw, gritty, urban fiction sold everywhere from street corners to small African American bookstores to Barnes and Noble […]
The Kingmaker
The Jam Master Jay homicide is still unsolved five years after the fact. Law enforcement has floated a lot of theories as to what happened but none of them has led to an arrest […]
The Life of Nikki Turner, Queen of Hip-Hop Fiction
A Hustler’s Wife, Project Chick, The Glamorous Life, Riding Dirty on I-95, Death Before Dishonor, Forever a Hustler’s Wife- these are the titles of Nikki Turner’s books but could easily be superlatives to describe the Queen of hip-hip fiction and her life […]
The Second Coming of Donald Goines
With the proliferation of street novels coming out it’s getting hard to separate the trash from the jewels. You got Teri Woods Publishing putting out books, Triple Crown publications, and a handful of other independents trying to get theirs […]
Staff Assault
It was a day like any other day. I woke up and rolled out of my too-thin metal bunk bed and took a shower. I mentally went over my plans for the day- lunch, workout in the yard, watch a soccer game on the Spanish TV, mail call, read and write, call my girl, watch a little TV […]
MDC Brooklyn
The Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York is in essence a big county jail. Run by the Bureau of Prisons for the feds, this nine floor, two-sided jail holds about 3,000 prisoners in various stages of the criminal justice system process […]
Crack Riots
In the fall of 1995 they had the infamous crack riots in the Burea of Prisons. These riots took place in federal prisons all across the United States almost simultaneously […]
One Night with Alanis by Robert Rosso
From the moment I cracked my crusty eyes open I knew that it was going to be a good day; the smell of freshly cooked moonshine pouring into my cell pretty-much guaranteed it […]
The State of the Feds
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 […]