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In 30 days, after 15 years of living inside the most violent penitentiaries the United States has to offer, I’m finally scheduled for release on ...
Winding down a prison sentence is like walking across a frozen lake. It’s painfully slow and you’re bound to bust your head, but eventuall ...
Just like the rest of human civilization, I will be watching the Super Bowl on Sunday along with the rest of my inmate population. Inside the prison s ...
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 ...
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 ...
I Got Locked Up in the Hole for Interviewing the WTC Bomber by Judge “What they get you for?” Pete Pretzel, a 49-year-old “good ol ...
Prison Shot Caller When I first came to prison, all I wanted to do was die. I was 23 years old and just received almost as much time as I had been ali ...
My Road to Rehabilitation at USP Hazleton by John Broman, Federal Prisoner #20121-068 This month as part of President Obama’s prison reform efforts ...
The number one threat to a correctional officers safety isn’t the inmates they’re paid to oversee, it’s the actions of their fellow ...
The politics of programming in the penitentiary can be complicated because of how the system is set up. There are over two hundred thousand peopl ...