If you know more than one guy named “Demon” or “Reckless” then you might be in prison.It’s a common practice for inmates to pick up a “prison handle” or nickname while here. For the most part, prisoners don’t give themselves these handles, but I’m sure it happens.There are ...

It’s interesting to see the varied levels of support prisoners receive. I have observed general patterns in family and friends support depending on what walk of life an offender comes from or which crimes they committed.Levels of outside support vary, but the extremes of the spectrum are ...

I imagine few people experience as dramatic a change in life as has transpired in mine. I have lost family, friends, home, career, dignity and almost everything else I once had in a very short time. This isn’t rock bottom. That was 4 years ago when I was sneaking into empty houses to spend ...

I consider myself fairly thick skinned but today I found myself getting offended.I had discovered one of my neighbors keeps a picture of Osama Bin Laden and says the Al Queda leader is his hero. He believes Osama Bin Laden was inspired by God when he masterminded plans to kill thousands of ...

When I was first sent to prison I remember wishing that I could just slip into a coma and wake up years later when it was time to go home.Those first three months in prison are kind of a blur now, not because I was in shock or anything like that, but because I don’t have many unique ...

The relationship between prisoners and their jailers is a unique one. There exists an “us versus them” mentality that is not likely to change any time soon, especially when you take into account the parties involved. I am hard-pressed to think of another situation in which the balance of ...