Trump is right. The FBI is chock a bloc with shnooks. So stop clutching your pearls over his appointment of Kash Patel as the agency’s new director. Patel promised as director of the FBI that “he’d shut down the bureau’s…
Prisoner Jackie is demure chaos. One half Peruvian, one half Mexican, Jackie’s parents produced a beautiful boy. But Jackie was not satisfied . . . she added breasts. Jackie is a trans cellmate who is also deaf and mute. Dealt…
Prison is a harvest of depression’s bruised fruits. A man does not share his gloom, lest a cellmate will share back. Confined for nearly three months in two different prisons in Arizona and California, I listened to no venting. I…
Jesse Lopez wants to pull on my sleeve about Jesus. Jesse was a banger and a career criminal. Before his current parole violation — a minor matter — he did 10 years — a major matter. Today he stands, a…
My cell mate, Oliver Howard, has no visitors and expects to die in prison, not believing he will survive his eight-year plea deal. He is charming . . . though hard of hearing. Guards consider him a good fellow, and…
I went to prison after a 100-count trial alleging that six Village Voice Media defendants facilitated prostitution. I was found guilty of a single count of laundering money; i.e., placing assets in a European bank. The verdict is mysterious. FBI…
It is to be a memorable day. As usual, we are waking at 4 a.m., a foolish and dark time of day. After breakfast, a group adjourns to the basketball court. It is my cellie’s 71st birthday, and he is…
Within the Barred Bunker We watched our friends grow up together And we saw them as they fell Some of them fell into heaven Some of them fell into hell — “A Rainy Night in Soho,” The Pogues I went…
The Eternal City. Roman legions. Caesar. the Colosseum. The birthplace of Sophia Loren. And now President Biden is sending Cindy Lou Hensley McCain to Rome to solve world hunger. Cindy endorsed Biden, an old family friend, over Orange Julius in…
It is difficult, for sheer outrage, to rival the French Revolutionary Tribunal where Georges Danton instructed the courthouse functionaries: “Let us be terrible, so that the people do not have to be.” His savage directive lives yet to this very…
