Prison Life Blog

What do these things have in common? Just some of the myriad examples of what can be done to people when their humanity is shelved. Some...

I tended the religious land. That was my job in NV state prison. About 1.5 acres of land in the high desert smack in the middle of a...

Is that a blood stain on the floor? Damn it! the toilet doesn't flush! Who clogged the toilet with syringes? Gang tags on the mirror?...

The covid pandemic started around March 2020. 2 years ago. That was the first time I got Covid and we've pretty much been locked down...

Be a fool with me and imagine this: how would the military do the dishes? I'd guess with a gun. Direct traffic? Gun. Bag your groceries,...

I worked in a gym once upon a time. Between clients I'd do front desk duties which was mostly answering the phones which... well, we all...

This isn't actually news. Every day of the year an average of about 1500 people are released from prisons and jails in the US. These are...

Any given day, I'm subjected to dozens of arbitrary rules: tuck in your shirt, wear your mask(often from guards NOT wearing theirs),make...

At some point, people started ignoring the rule that we can’t give ourselves nicknames. This grand tradition goes back to the Romans who...

I have a decent enough memory and like most people, it is sharpened under times of stress and fear. In this case though, I have memory...

This is my excuse for my recent absence. I don’t know how necessary it is to reiterate that, as for the last few hundred times I’ve been...

We are currently on lockdown because of Covid. I am also confident that I have now contracted it on at least 3 or 4 occasions. I am...

I had a precious few years out there where I got to wake up to the sound of laughing kids whose enthusiasm dragged me out of bed and to...

Women (and one creepy dude) prancing around in tights with their synchronized steps, gyrations, and all before I was old enough to...

The first indications I had of the reality of materialism in prison was about a decade ago when my cellmate and I had just arrived to the...

It may surprise many people to learn that people in prison expend at least as much effort on their appearance as those who aren't in...

In little more than the time it takes me to write these sentences, I can get a few different narcotics, a few bottles of home-made wine,...

Dear new Correctional Officer, Thank you for accepting this essential role in keeping our country safe. Not only will you have the...

Everyone knows a kid who wants to be a fireman or a nurse or even a cop. You don’t hear many wishing to grow up and be a criminal or an...

Locked down again. They go from days to weeks, even months sometimes. Depends on whatever the prison administration feels that day or how...