Sometimes, just sometimes, I can see why the prison authorities have such deeply ingrained distaste for us prisoners. Sometimes I...

ADX “ I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowed on a velvet cushion.” —Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862...

THE RHU The RHU is a relatively new housing option in the BOP. RHU stands for “Restricted Housing Unit.” As there are so many inmates who...

THE SMU I have constantly heard my fellow prisoners call the SMU program (pronounced “Smoo” like a cow with a lisp) the “Smooth program.”...

"Meanie Babies" Psychotic murderers are funny. Not in a ha-ha type way, but in an unpredictably incongruent eccentric way. Correction......

"The Lessons We Learn- Part Two" As I explain in part one of this post, because of the way the federal prison system is run and...

"The Lessons We Learn- Part One" In order to live sanely and safely in federal prison, you have to learn and apply a few big lessons to...

“Nobody can really know the truth about solitary confinement unless they’ve experienced it. I did fifteen months RHA (Rec and House...

Since early 2019 this prison has been on some sort of "modified operations" due to the C-19 freak out. That's a fancy way of saying that...

I was housed at USP Coleman about twelve years ago when I first saw a commercial on AMC for a coming series "The Walking Dead". It looked...

-Message from the Author- "To our new traffic from Ukraine... We love you! Keep up the excellent fight and kick the teeth out of those...

So this weird thing happens when you get older and the family starts fading away into the void... regardless of your level of connection...

"A Day of Infamy... all over again" 7 December 2002: the date that a small part of the present day world caught up with the chronically...

No Safe Spaces There are of course no bitch-ass millennial snowflake weakness enabling "Safe Spaces" in federal prison. Thank God for...

Crunch-crunch-crunch. I start in on a new handful of inconsequential termite munchings and my attention sort of falls into the noise....

When I do a critical hotwash of my life and begin to trace where shit went off the rails into not-so-good anti-social proclivities, one...

(Previous... an information gathering trek to find out how incredibly delusional incardinated sex offenders are...) Once I had gotten JK...

(Previously... since my presence had been accepted by the sex-offenders at the education department, I decided to actively question one,...

(Previously: I made the decision and stayed in a prison that has got a contingent of weirdos in it...) During the next few weeks, I, as...

"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victim he intends to eat until he eats them." -Samuel Butler 1835-1902...