From T-Bone (Letter 70)
T-Bone is a massively-built spiritual ex-Marine, who uses fighting skills to stop prison rape. T-Bone’s latest letter from Arizona prison:
Can you imagine how dangerous it is for
guys who steal in this place? But there’s always those who think they can do
whatever. This jerk came into my cell and tried to steal my stamps and
toothpaste and even my shoes. I threw him out by the back of the neck.
Now this is where it gets crazy: he went
to the next door down and took another guys ID. He went to the inmate store and
got the guy’s store order, came back to the building and tried to act like he
did nothing wrong. Well, the guy next door found out what he had done and
almost the whole yard wanted to kill him. They wanted his ass anyway.
I told the guy he stole from to let him go.
They took the guy to the service centre, and then off the yard. Man, there are
some crazy people in these places, who always do things that show they need
help, but the system is designed to warehouse instead of helping people to
change. We are the difference makers. The old me would have kicked the crap out
of him, but now I see how we are influenced to think negatively, by evil, that
kind of thinking becomes a culture, and it’s time to break the cycle.
Shaun Attwood
After Prison Show Interview
Just did a podcast with Joe Guerrero (video above). I first recognised Joe's amazing ability to tell a story when he wrote to me in 2014 about getting pee tested in prison. Since his release 2 years ago, Joe has inspired prisoners and young people across the world by his meteoric rise on YouTube, where he now stars in the After Prison Show, which has over half a million subscribers. You can watch his videos here.