Drugs, Bribery & Violence: The Secret Prison Economy | Life Inside

I started doing drugs since my teenage, got addicted to crack. Spent my whole life fighting Crack addiction. Also suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. This is something that really need to be use globally to help people with related health challenges.

matt hancock looks like he's been through a lot since im a celeb

My cousin before he got deported back to the Philippines was a big hustler out here in LA and of course in and out of prison. I use to ask him like why wasn’t he scared about going back to prison. And basically he told me every time he went to prison, he had friends already there, since he was a hustler who liked to share all his “earnings” he was well liked by everyone. He told me he would do things like get close with a female guard to smuggle in things like cigarettes and he would just give the cigs to everyone in his cell block or when he was out in the yard. So he said he always felt like Robin Hood just coming back to his people when he would go back to prison. My cousin could have honestly been some huge business tycoon but he came to the US as a teen, with an accent, and bullied everyday. So where do you turn to in those situations when you live in LA back in the 90s? You turn to the gangs who offered brotherhood and protection. My cousin is doin well tho, he got deported back to the Philippines where I hear he has turned over a new leaf and has a new family there. His two sons here are grown and doin amazing things with their lives. But yeah long story short, prison is tough and scary for a lot of people, but the flip side of that is the prison system is not doin enough to change lives for the better. My cousin should have done more to learn from his bad decisions in life, there’s no doubt about that. Regardless of that, these privatized prison industries just need to be abolished

Just to say I loved your first book so much. Listened to the audiobook and you reading it was just fantastic. You have a wonderful narration style. Looking forward to your second is going to be my holiday book!

Letting murderer work on your back is wild.

Just listened to Chris’s audiobook “a bit of a stretch”…I highly recommend it!

I’ve got stories like this for DAYS

Chris Atkins: masterclass in doing time

“He sorted out the knots in my back“ is crazy

This isn’t a reupload for the first time in the last couple weeks?

Spice is a huge problem in prisons and very deadly. There should be a documentary on the amount of deaths in the US prison system that are covered up as medical or self inflicted when in reality their deaths could have been prevented if not by negligence and lack of humanity.

I like the kettle trick 👍

Prison in Connecticut wasn't bad at all. It had a real summer camp type vibe

This guy definitely got taxed like crazy

I never met such a high maintenance inmate b4😂

i bet his little nickname in jail was "snitchy"

I’m a tattoo artist, and a barber. Generally an artist overall. I have had a few people tell me that I’d be well off in jail because of my traits. I AM WELL OFF AT HOME BRUH, WUT.

Some of them prisoners are living better than i aaam on the outside!😂

Hope you're working on some new films Christopher 🤨👍

Plot twist: It's the guards and prison contractors bringing it in.