The video promoting racial integration started playing on Folsom’s internal television network sometime in early 2008. It depicted interviews with prisoners of different races who, presumably, had been at a
This represents the second in a series of periodic posts in which I explain some facet of the prison system which may be helpful in understanding my stories and, as a
I was about halfway through my evening jog when I saw Skinheads congregating in the corner of the yard. About ten in number, they huddled in right field’s foul territory
This represents the first in a series of periodic posts in which I explain some facet of the prison system which may be helpful in understanding my stories and, as
This was written in October 2009 while living in a minimum security fire camp in Southern California. My grandfather passed away a few weeks ago and I recently received a
Mike was sentenced to fifty years to life for stealing $200 from a convenience store. Mike was a Jehovah’s witness. Mike was my cellee. And Mike was sick. When I
We were never able to smuggle enough vegetables for entire meals. We smuggled in morsels. We smuggled in happiness. We smuggled in the rekindling of long-lost memories.