YEAR TWO IN A TEXAS PRISON Cowboy, a meth freak, says he fought his wife's insulter fairly at first. That is, until the devious culprit (to hear him describe the man), started to get the best of him. In simpler terms, the man was apparently beating the shit out of Cowboy. In any event, Cowboy says he knows how to take a beating as well as any man (and he is thoroughly full of shit I may add. For if he could take a beating fairly like any man he would have done so). Prison administrations like to say that what convicts do best is lie. I can tell you, that is absolute bullshit - the truth is...

Convicted of real estate theft in 2005, I was remanded to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to serve a 20 year sentence. Immediately, I was shocked at the sour living standards presented to inmates and decided to author a journal noting my experiences and the efforts to rehabilitate offenders in the TDCJ institutional division's prison system.

A nine years old immigrant boy living in the North Ward, Forest Hill section of the rough and tumble city of Newark, New Jersey. Loses his innocence to a pedophile priest, and subsequently becomes an incurable, mischievous, miscreant child dedicated to blatant foul language, thefts, and burglaries, into adulthood. By the age of twenty-three, largely influenced by the many Cosa Nostra aficionados that street kid such as he was admired. Ricky has his perception of a life well lived narrowed down to less than five fingered rules. One is, and was foremost, to give vaginas the medieval...