UNDERDOG, A True Crime Thriller of Prison Life (Prison Killers- Book 4) by Glenn Langohr

Author:Glenn Langohr [Langohr, Glenn]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: LOCKDOWNPUBLISHING
Published: 2013-11-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4: Falsely Accused

Driving, I had passed most of the LA Mountains when I got a call from my wife. I pulled over at the base of another mountainous hill, the Grapevine.

“Hi beautiful.”

“Hi baby, how’s the drive going?”

“It’s going okay. I’m just daydreaming about what happened to Damon…”

“I know you love him like a brother, but thank God you’re making it. Where are you?”

“I’m at the bottom of the Grapevine. I pulled off the freeway to answer your call so I can concentrate on this hill.”

“You concentrate on that hill honey and don’t forget how many hills you’ve already climbed and conquered. I’m proud of you baby. I love you.”

“Love you too beautiful.”

I pulled back on the road and started thinking about the research I’d done on Pelican Bay while driving up the hill. According to Pelican Bay State Prison’s own website and mission statement, it was designed to house California’s most serious criminal offenders in a secure, safe and disciplined institutional setting. With one half of the prison housing maximum security inmates in a general population setting, where inmates were able to get limited yard together. With the other half of the prisoners housed in the Security Housing Unit (SHU), designed for inmates presenting serious management concerns. They went on to say that the SHU is a modern design for inmates who are difficult management cases, prison gang members, and violent maximum security inmates.

There was too much gray area for SHU confinement… Difficult management cases could mean too many things. Prisoners who bucked the system as jail house lawyers and filed suits on behalf of themselves or other inmates were retaliated against.

As for prison gang members, it took two of three things to validate a prisoner for SHU confinement currently. The first thing was self admission. You screwed yourself if you admitted you ran with a gang. I thought back to the many times I’d been in prison. Every time a prison inmate was classified to a new yard for housing in the California Prison System, a team of counselors, Inmate Gang Investigators and the Warden were present with a pen and paper and a barrage of questions like:

Do you have any enemies?”, Then, “Who do you run with?”

If you were a Black inmate, “Do you run with the Crips or Bloods?”

If you were a Mexican inmate, “Do you run with the Southern Mexicans or Northern Mexicans?

If you were a White inmate, “Do you run with the Peckerwoods or Skin heads?”

I had to force them to write down that I was neither and couldn’t I just be a White man born of my momma? Either the classification team was inexperienced every time, or they were overzealous to label inmates. To start the questions with, do you have any potential enemies and follow it up with, which gang do you run with for protection, is a setup. I remembered how I saw many young, first time prisoners get to the yard in a hurry to join sides and tattoo ink on their bodies to represent that protection, that belonging.

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