“You are to be fed, clothed, sheltered, and cared for. You get every other privilege,” this was one Alcatraz prison with many rules and regulations. Less than a mile and a half from San Francisco, the convicts could look out the closed windows and see the beautiful Golden Gate Bridge, boats sailing past, birds flying, […]
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In a recently released prison photo of the late Mob boss John Gotti taken on October 17, 2001, the once-Dapper Don appears frail and grim, a stark contrast to the flashy and robust aura that he projected as the mighty boss of New York’s Gambino crime family. This photo, recently released to “The Smoking Gun” […]
Even though the state and federal prison systems can sometimes hold some people for matching crimes, The state and federal prison systems are alike but there are many differences in which makes both systems very unique because the federal system usually has people incarcerated for extended periods of time and many people refer to the […]
John Gotti, the flamboyant boss of the Gambino Crime Family, spent the last decade of his life in federal custody. After being convicted on multiple murder and racketeering counts, Gotti was sentenced to five consecutive life terms in June 1992. Within days of his sentencing, Gotti was whisked away and flown to Marion, Indiana, home […]
The setting for this essay is in a federal prison camp for women in Pekin, Illinois. The author has brought her nephew to the prison camp to see his mother, which is the author’s older sister. Coyne informs us that it is Mother’s Day, and that all of the convict-moms have a single flower, either […]