Seth Ferranti
The Feds Are Trying to Decimate the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas
This week, seven members of the powerful race-based prison gang were sentenced for their roles in its culture of violence.
I'm Busted
Breakfast in the Feds is served from 6 AM to 7 AM and ranges from coffee cake to pancakes to bear claws to egg-and-cheese bagels to cinnamon rolls to waffles.
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On August 28, 1999, the Bureau of Prisons adopted the Ensign Amendment, putting in place statutory restrictions requiring return of commercially published information or material that is sexually explicit or features nudity.
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“I had a black widow before. I kept it in a cheese bottle. I cut holes in it and taped down a little box it could crawl in and it just spun the web.”
I'm Busted
Here's what basically every single day in here is like for me.5:30 AM, doors crack: The cellblock comes to life as the CO cracks the door. I wake up, brush my teeth, wash my face, and throw on my khaki prison uniform in anticipation of chow...
I'm Busted
A lot of hippies came from families of privilege. When their little movement didn’t work out, they slowly reverted back to form but kept their decadent lifestyles.
I'm Busted
People in the real world imagine a lot of horror stories coming out of prison. And in a sense they're right-a lot of foul shit goes down. All you free people have seen Oz, right? But living in the belly of the beast, prisoners learn that horror stories...
I'm Busted
In prison there are serious restrictions on prisoners' personal property. In the world, people tend to accumulate things as they get older, but in prison convicts are expected to live decades of their lives and not accumulate any belongings. Not that...
Free Music
Here in the belly of the beast, life is either totally chaotic or so monotonous that you can feel each second slip by.