Tag: Federal

  • Breakfast of champions

    One day per week, from 6:15am to around 8am, guys line up with empty, heavy-duty mesh laundry bags to scoop their Commissary orders from a metal shoot into their bags while COs scan items and bark orders — at the customer and the incarcerated clerks. Each unit has their “Commissary day”, with some units combined,…

  • The 85 year-old little boy in prison

    “What were your parents like?” I ask Doc. Asking an 85-year-old man about his parents starts your brain doing math. They’ve have been born over 105 years ago… “My mom, and I know everybody says this, but my mom really was the hardest-working, sweetest woman that ever walked God’s Earth. Raised four boys without a…

  • SO. MANY. FARTS.

    I cannot overstate the amount of farts here. It’s like a French department store of farts, breathtaking in scope, variety, and airiness. Mel Brooks would say tone it down were these sound effects. The walls of Jerico would topple from the trumpeting. Hot air balloons would shoot into space if they flew over this place.…