Quote Originally Posted by amsterdam
Are you a wood? Who did you roll with. I had a click of about 50 or so guys who stuck together 24/7. We were the DownWoods and were tight with the AB and Nazi Lowriders. (Anyone reading this who is thinking I am a racist has no idea what they are talking about, if you are a white boy, you roll with whites, no choice in that matter) The McConnell Unit I was in was a gladiator farm and a place that words can't even describe. I will say that I met some of the hardest, realist, most loyal motherfuckers I have ever come across in my life. I still keep in touch with a few guys doing long, long, bids. You?
Yeah I have 2 friends I send money to every month and christmas boxes. You can believe this..when their release date gets here I will do anything I can to help them because they were always there for me..always! The true racists in the prison I was in was the blacks...I did my time in Julia Tutwiler for Women in Alabama...the food we had brought in was actually stamped "Not fit for human consumption" everyone thinks you got it made in there...sheesh what a myth. I saw things I will never be able to get out of my mind. Finding people dead in their beds..And you know Alabama still does not have a self defense law?? You could hardly breath in the summer months....froze in the winter so the weaker ones really did die....no medical care...I was on visitation with my Mom one weekend and out of all us visiting that day..they made my Mom leave to make room for more visitors..all black of course. Yeah I know what life is like in a prison. I had a violent crime so i wasn't eligible for any community programs and when I did go up for Parole one time I was protested...so I just EOS'd after my appeal and sentence reduction. There were gangs but I mainly stayed to myself except for a few tried and true friends...I had alot of time to pull and that was how I got through it...can you imagine getting a timesheet with nothing but zeros for your release date? I was so young and ignorant so I do try and tell people what it is really like in a STATE prison. The messed up thing was at my trial my husband actually testified about what he did to me..had the police and hospital reports on all my broken bones but guess what? I hurt one of their own and Alabama played hardball with me. I'm not proud of going to prison but it did make me who I am...It got so bad that my dad finally got with the prison commisioner and actually told him I better look the same when I come out as I looked when I went in. I always heard the mens prisons are worse...and I also that Texas is the toughest. True? Oh and yeah we were called peckerwoods,crackers,and nazis lol. Did you know that the majority of them could not even read? I never knew people were illiterate until they started asking me to read them their mail and write letters home for them...I even saw one young black girl get cut up literally because she went to visit her father and her bulldagger walked right into visitation and started cutting her...Did you see evil like that?