Gacracker_1

I must say that I was intrigued when I 1st saw the article about your story posted on one of the news outlets. I was hoping to see someone notable enough to grab some real headlines post about life inside our federal correction facility. I have to hand it to you about nailing down the justice system and the way it works. Absolutely spot on partner but your portrayal of what life is like on the inside after spending 14 months in a pussy camp ain't what Fed prison is like. You do an injustice to all the folks that were forced to sign plea agreements and in doing so feel the full might of what it is like to have the Feds punish you for not assisting them by giving a lengthy sentence of 60 months or more for a probation eligible offense to be served at a either an FCI or FCC. I'm afraid your readers are getting the wrong impression of what it is really like as 14 months is an extended vacation. Hats off for outing the Feds and the way it works because that was spot on but as for the rest of your portrayal you do a disservice to anyone that was forced to do their time in any low, medium or high security joint which is the norm for people that do not cooperate in any form what so ever with to prosecutor regardless of whether they are camp eligible or not. So your saying you don't have a 5K.1 Rule 35 in any of your paperwork? Just want to clear that up. I knew plenty of white color convictions that had worse charges than you hit the yard at Yazoo City or Coleman. They were standup guys and the never saw a camp because of having separates in their papers to keep them away from the guys that became bitches real fast just so they could go to a camp. Please clarify that and how you go from 30 months to 14 when the Feds don't have parole and require 85% sentence completed if you retain all your good time credit. 14 is not even 50% of 30 allowing for 3 month good time on a 30 month sentence would put you at the door in 27. Please tell.

That math ads up and it was not clear that you had a prior substance abuse issue that qualified you for RDAP. I think that it does not have to be mentioned why I had reservations about your statement of not cooperating. I am have a little suspicion as to how you managed to get camp placement, 1st time, none violent, bla bla bla. I get that but what I I have issue with wrapping my head around is for someone that bucked the Feds the way you portray yourself as doing does not get camps. The get get minimum security classified then the Feds ask te BOP to place a management variable on their unfortunate ass and stick them behind a fence in a low security outside their region. At least that was how I experienced it and how every other poor sob that decided to tell the Feds to kick rocks. Yes there were the occasional guy that but the lottery and ended up telling them to fuck off and still get Maxwell or Pensacola but rare. Not trying to take anything away from what you interpreted as what prison life must be like from your 14 months at a camp, and I will refrain from being rude this time, but I still don't believe you have any idea, CONCEPTION, of what it is like to be locked up in a real prison. Never saw a camp but was rated minimum out custody with a management variable the entire time I was in. I met plenty of guys that fucked up at a camp and were sent to behind the fence in a low or medium. Most guys would not associate with them for several reasons 1) to hear the stories about how sweet and carefree a camp is was a little heartbreaking. 2) 90% of those that started out in a camp did so by assisting the Feds. I get it you did not.

What you don't get is what it is like to have to live in a real joint. To have to live with the constant threat of violence and the hopelessness that comes from 1500-2000 hard motherfuckers that would as soon fight because they see 90-180 days in the SHU as a break in stress associated with living in a real prison. You don't understand what it is like to be put on con air and transferred through and laid over OK City or Atlanta Pen for a couple of weeks. I seriously doubt you had a real experience of having to deal with US Marshals, the 2nd lowest form of scum on the earth only a slight step above BOP correctional officers, armed with machine guns while you were handcuffed and shackled with belly chain any time you were moved between court, city or county jails, prisons or internally within a prison. Strip searched going into and then exiting any visit with an attorney or a family member. Real federal prison is violent, gangs, hopeless psychotics. It is having to seriously be conscious of exactly what you say and how you say it, who you look at and the endless perceived interpretations someone can have with 99 out of 100 being wrong and will end up in a fight. Don't get me wrong I and most guys I knew were 1st time offenders in for a none violent drug charge. I'm a big guy and I have had my share of college bar fights, traveled around the world in some pretty tough countries but I had to literally and consciously lock my knees to keep the fact my legs were shaking as bad as the small guy in front of me when offloaded from a bus or a plane and all you see is straight up concrete and Constantine wire as you are brought into Atlanta Pen or flown into OK city. You don't understand what it is like to be locked down 23 hours a day with 3 other guys in a 2 man cell with no mattress on a concrete floor and having to rearrange so folks can take a dump and only getting a 5 minute shower ever 3 days. You don't know what prison is when you at no moment or time can show a sign of emotion or weakness. You do not know what it is like to walk out on a yard and have to make sure you do not communicate with anyone of a different race than the one you are. Worse have to make sure none of your own race of inmates perceive you to show anything but contempt for any race but your own. What people NEED to realize is that is Federal prison and where the majority of 1st time, none violent, drug and other offense end up. That is a low security joint one step up from a camp where you were. They maintained you and other guys in a camp with one guard for what 100 inmates and no fence by threatening to send you to a low security if you caught a shot right? It was the threat of actually being sent to a real prison that made you behave. And you want to talk about that place you were as if it was what prison was about.

It is that that Feds use to convince people to testify, make up and lie about someone else. The prisons are full of folks convicted of dry conspiracy charges. In the US it only takes 2 people to go to the Feds and claim someone sold drugs, committed fraud or some other crime for a person to be convicted of a federal crime. People that don't know better think that is BS but it is not. 2 people can completely lie to Feds and no evidence ever be found other than that testimony and the Feds will get a 5-15 yr minimum mandatory conviction. The only person that does not go to prison is the 1st person to agree to cooperate. You have hard core life long gang banging drug dealers that get busted and they will immediately offer assistance. They turn in 5 junkies that they sell drugs to and the Feds go to those people who never sold drugs only used them and place them in a situation where an undercover DEA agent or another CI gets that person to make a phone call or be the middle person in a transaction for a small sack of weed or gram of coke. That junkie gets all the time and the drug dealer walks or gets a less sentence. The Feds force people to lie in court. They knowingly tell people to lie in court just to get convictions.

Yes you got fucked dude but I still say you have no conception what so ever what REAL prison is about.