PRISONPENN.COM FROM THE INSIDE OUT

By Kenyatta

Do I write too much about love?
I sometimes wonder if you tire of hearing how I love my family or babygirl (my purple bass player: ). I wonder if I should write about other things, like the thunderous clap of a C.O slamming shut my cell gate or the daily frisking of my  [ Read More ]

By Bang

I know I been MIA 4 a minute so allow me 2 reintroduce myself, my name is…Bang! Why do they call me Bang, u ask? Well, according 2 my mother, I was named after an old-time boxer that she had a crush on. Ask my father and he’ll tell you that  [ Read More ]

Rapper FOXY BROWN has blasted reports she was given preferential treatment during her stint behind bars – insisting her time in prison was “the worst period in my life”.
The star was jailed for 12 months in September 2007 for violating her probation, stemming from a fight with two manicurists in a New York nail salon.  [ Read More ]

Check this shit out; Mad motherfuckers be running around in here talking ‘bout they innocent & shit, and some of them actually believe that shit. Now I ain’t never been one to judge a mo’fo or call a mo’fo a liar or anything like that. But I will say, straight up, talking strictly ‘bout yours  [ Read More ]

Prison Short Documentary

The Coalition to Oppose Life Withouth Parole for Children of Iowa works for a second chance for children in American prisons. The United States of American is one of a very few nations to put children in prison for life for committing the act of murder. The U.S.A. imprisons more citizens then ANY COUNTRY IN  [ Read More ]

An ex-soldier convicted of raping and killing an Iraqi teen and murdering her family has been sentenced to life in prison in a case that drew attention to the emotional and psychological strains on soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Steven Dale Green, 24, of Midland, Texas, was spared the death penalty Thursday after jurors couldn’t  [ Read More ]

There is something about our conditioning that makes us put the greatest value on the most futile of things.
In 1997, I was in the infamous C-74 building at Rikers Island. It was my first time there and I was nervous, but my need to be respected far exceeded that nervousness. I was young, violent  [ Read More ]

When Michael Vick gets out of prison later this week, he’ll join about 120,000 other federal ex-cons under court-ordered supervision.
Statistics show that about a third will end up back in prison.
Vick is scheduled to leave the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., either Wednesday or Thursday. He’ll arrive in Hampton and be immediately placed in home  [ Read More ]

Prison is like a giant cemetery, above-ground catacombs with particularly spacious coffins. It’s a case of the biggest haunting ever, where hundreds of thousands of us move around, play games and try to communicate with the people we left on the other side. We hope that maybe we can still have some effect on the  [ Read More ]

An intelligent man once said, “Life is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy to those who feel.” I can’t remember who said it but I know he was smart just for saying that. Come on, life is funny when you think about it. It is so funny that I feel like crying.
That’s  [ Read More ]

Yesterday, I had to depend on other people to know who I was, and I was only as good or bad as my last critique. When I was young, my mother told me I was special, so I did my best at being special. Later in life, my peers told me I was a gangster,  [ Read More ]

I’m not scared of death, but what I’m scared to death of is feeling as if I have no other choice but to resort back to crime. Go knows how bad I want to leave that lifestyle alone, and just enjoy a normal life. But god also knows that if my family is starving and  [ Read More ]