My nephew is in CA (Soledad). He can't receive gift packages, only letters, money, and stamps. He's a big guy(muscular), so he's only had to fight a couple of times. This is his first strike. He's been in before, twice, had a lot of chances and still screwed up his parole.

Prison is not the kind of place you want to go to, especially if you're young and good-looking.

Read "You Got Nothing Coming" by Jimmy Lerner. He was there for manslaughter for 7 years and kept a journal which ended up being the book. I got mine from Barnes & Noble, but I think you can get it from Amazon.