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Pure Professionalism
Disclaimer and Warning: Some of the language used in this post would be offensive to most reasonable human beings. I know I was shocked and offended when the authority figure employed by the Department...
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Graduation Day
I can’t seem to remember much about my high school graduation. I don’t believe I was all that impressed with the accomplishment. I should’ve been. What I do recall is that it was outside in the sun,...
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Fitness Fanatic
Not long ago I was riding in a vehicle on the way to the hospital. The two officers in the front seat were bickering nonstop over a perceived slight based on a huge miscommunication that had happened a...
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Mental Health Check
Every Wednesday in segregation is mental health check day. God help you if you lose your mind on one of the other six days of the week. Due Diligence “MENTAL HEALTH CHECK!” The distinctly female voice...
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Dynamic Duo
Billy and Sid only worked together one day a week. I don’t think the prison could’ve coped with them longer than that. It has to be illegal to have that much fun at work. Arrivals Sid usually arrived...
View ArticleThe Conundrum
Jake was wary as he eased his way hesitantly toward the door from which the voice was coming. There was only darkness from within the cell, which gave the disembodied voice the eerie effect of calling...
View ArticleHiatus
Just in case there’s any confusion; I have zero access to a computer. Some prisons in some states as well as certain federal facilities do provide limited computer usage to their inmates. I do not get...
View ArticleNobody Wins
“Oh yeah? That’s nothing, I’ve got you beat; check this out . . .” I had just regaled Tee with a tale of the disgusting conditions of the officer’s bathroom that I had to clean every morning....
View ArticleSuckers
Personally, I never understood what the big deal was. Labor of Love As far as hustles go it wasn’t a particularly lucrative one since the cost for ingredients was rather considerable. Beyond that, the...
View ArticlePsychotic Break
Aaron paced the cell endlessly, all through the night, mumbling incessantly in vicious whispers and angry vehement curses. He had taken a razor blade from its casing and kept it pinched between thumb...
View ArticleUnexpected Caregiver
Misunderstood Ms. Thurman seemed to rub most people the wrong way. She was brusque, no-nonsense, and completely professional. From inmate to CO alike they largely thought she was just mean and bitchy....
View ArticleAbnormal Appetite
“Hey! Stop that! Cut it out. You better leave it alone before it falls off.” CO Bogey grinned to himself at his consummately clever witticism. He believed he had caught an inmate masturbating. He was...
View ArticleKing Pong
Tipping the scales past three hundred pounds, with much of it settling in an unsightly mass around my midsection, I was far from the picture of athletic prowess. With a dome that was kept gleaming by a...
View ArticleCribbage Madness
Seeing my buddy raving like a lunatic and watching him get handcuffed and hauled away was a shocking and brusque introduction to the hard realities of prison. Common Ground Phil was tall and skinny as...
View ArticleInjustice for All
Sonny was an older black man, in his mid-sixties, and walked with a slow, loping limp. He didn’t move very swiftly. This particular stint in Segregation for Sonny was because he had mouthed off to...
View ArticleOversharing
An Attack “I’ve got it figured out. You know what I’ve been doing? I’ve still got a roll and a half of toilet paper left. You know how? It’s Friday already, and so we get a new roll for the week...
View ArticleMedical Emergency
The Kill With a sonorous smack, Whitey smashed the spider and squished it between his palm and the white brick wall. This act was preceded by a yelp of surprise and disgust at the presence of the...
View ArticleA Misguided Love
Empty bottles stood at attention in tidy lines like toy soldiers at the ready. Eight, ten, a dozen—the number continued to grow by increments of two each time his mother returned to the table. My...
View ArticleWanton Waste
This past Christmas season was filled with gifts of kindness and generosity from various businesses in the surrounding community. I’d never seen anything quite like it before in nearly fourteen years...
View ArticleNeglect
I wish I could say this type of thing is anomalous, but instead it borders on commonplace. “Okay, I gotta get outta here, but the fresh sheets for Bryson in five are in his room on the desk. You just...
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