Prison Diaries

The Russians Take Control

by | Mar 10, 2015 1:06 pm | Comments (3)

Russian inmate Pinkerstein was promoted to be the personal assistant to the Head Blue Boy in Charge of this section of the prison (aka the HBBIC”). Another inmate was in training for the job for a few weeks, but either declined the position or quit. Either way, the Russians now have complete control over the camp.

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Public At Risk From Parole Supervision Cutback

by | Feb 12, 2014 5:03 pm | Comments (1)

(Opinion) Something dangerous is developing inside the state’s prisons. It’s not an infectious epidemic, wild government waste or even the expected corruption, but a new law tacked to the underside of Governor Malloy’s gun bill that will inevitably threaten public safety by eliminating parole supervision for offenders convicted of violent crimes.

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Behind Bars, Two
Reasons For Thanksgiving

by | Nov 22, 2012 10:36 am | Comments (1)

Angie, an inmate in the cube next to mine, would come back to North Dorm at 6:30 every evening in her hounds tooth checkered pants and white scrub shirt — a prison’s kitchen uniform — stinking of onions and Pine Sol.

She posted a sign on her TV, the prison kind of TV: clear plastic, showing all electrical innards and exposing any contraband the sneaky prisoner tries to hide in it. The sign read: Do the women run this bitch or what?”

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