Shaun Attwood
Jack Hill Interviews Shaun Attwood About USA Prison (Locked Up Abroad)
Clip from interview, describing my first days in jail:
Shaun Attwood
From T-Bone (Letter 42)
T-Bone is a massively-built spiritual ex-Marine, who uses fighting skills to stop prison rape. T-Bone’s latest letter:
Here in supermax, some of the guards are
decent people. They walk around with face shields because there are guys who
throw human waste on them and each other, and some guys spit on them. This
place is full of cell warriors, guys who talk and scream and yell at each other
from their cells, which we are never allowed out of except to take showers.
There are times when the smells are
nothing but human excrement from the open waste pond. It lasts for hours. The
opposite of that stink is the smell of the officers food nuked in the microwave.
Compared to the food they feed us, the smell of real food makes my mouth water
and guys start asking the guards for some of whatever smells so good.
Cockroaches are everywhere. They come
out night and day. They get into all of our stuff everything.
Supermax is tough, but Sheriff Joe
Arpaio’s jail is a much bleaker place. I thought things would be smoother after
the jail, but I ended up at Alhambra Unit – where Arizona Department of Corrections
determine your custody level – in a cell with a crazy guy. He wouldn’t sit
still or leave the guards alone, making comments about female officers. He was
always yelling at people outside the cell, trying to make himself out to be
tough, but it was all an act.
Some guys at Alhambra Unit were so
scared senseless of prison and wanted to be protected that they said they were gay
or started acting gay, so they wouldn’t go to the general population. There was
so much fear and hate. People were lost in a sea of discouragement. There was nothing
but sitting and waiting as we were being tested and watched.
Shaun Attwood
My Mum and Dad Featured in Portuguese Rap Video
A Portuguese artist called SØS Silva O Sentinela with rapper Sam the Kid have made a video featuring my mum Barb Attwood and Dad Derick Attwood and Banged Up Abroad music that has gone viral with almost 400,000 views. "Silent Valley" the kid in the video - inspired by Raving Arizona - wants to be a writer versus his father who wants him to be a footballer.
Raving Arizona:
Shaun Attwood
Two Tonys Book Blurb
My draft blurb for the back cover of Two Tonys book
is below. I welcome your thoughts and any suggested improvements. Would this
blurb make you want to read the book?
As a Mafia associate, Two Tony’s job is to break an
arm or a leg, bury bodies and plant bombs. He works for the Bonanno family, run
by Sicilian-born Mafioso, Joe Bonanno, whose exploits inspired The Godfather.
In a dispute over cocaine distribution with The
Brothers – a deadly biker gang – Two Tonys snuffs out rivals and anyone else
who gets in his way, leaving a trail of corpses from Arizona to Alaska. On the
run for mass murder, Two Tonys is pursued by bikers, the Aryan Brotherhood prison
gang and homicide detectives who launch a nationwide manhunt.
Some vintage Two Tonys blogs:
Bad Weather
Stoicism
Solving the Murder of Joe Hootner
Goiter
On Jesus Christ
Exorcism
On Friedrich Nietzsche
TV Mourners
Little Chickadees
On Solzhenitsyn
Literature and Schlongs
Versus Ogre
Bad Weather
Stoicism
Solving the Murder of Joe Hootner
Goiter
On Jesus Christ
Exorcism
On Friedrich Nietzsche
TV Mourners
Little Chickadees
On Solzhenitsyn
Literature and Schlongs
Versus Ogre
Shaun Attwood
Chipping Campden Literature Festival.
Next Tuesday at 7PM I'm doing a school talk in Surrey which is open to the public and free to get in. It's at St John's School, Leatherhead which is 20 minutes away from Guildford. Anyone interested in attending must register here.
Shaun Attwood