prison can help you but at the same time prison can destroy you,i did a 5 year bit an never been back an it's been over 30 years, but you never know what a person really did to end up inside them walls,i used that time to look at my life an decided to make a change or be wright back inside them walls,im retired and doing okay for myself today.but i just wanted to share that my people I'm out. 😊
Thanks for doing this. I was in prison from 87 - 2016. Started my time at Missouri State Penitentiary. and did 5 years there. Old heads schooled me on how to do time
Mark I grew up visiting your uncle in JC. Those big walls, the guards on those walls with machine guns. That wasn’t a movie it was real. It was big, ugly and scary looking to a little kid. The guards treated the visitors like they were in violation. After mama and daddy died I would visit when I was in town and we had to park at the bottom of the street and that was a long hot walk in the summer and cold in the winter. Most of the fellas watched me grow up through the years so if they saw me walking up that hill they would yell down “Hey baby Imma let Mail know you’re here.” Believe it or not when I heard someone died I was sad. A few guys used to write me and one of them was a wonderful artist and he would draw on peoples letters. I still have a drawing of a unicorn. I was in high school.
Man I love spending time with older guys that really knew our history and told it straight up no covering it up and I can tell when I'm in front of my people and it's there but very few and rare so you learn how to appreciate it and alot of our people got caught up on that shit and it fucked up alot of our true soldiers of the community
The Leisure 's paul Leisure and his crew is who the Michaels were beefing with.. When Paul lost his legs in a car bombing, they had his Cadillac at the tow yard on Laclede by the parole office.You say they wasn't forcing dudes,OG i don't know where you were at,but in the walls it was happening not so much now,because they prosecute.
The Temple was on West Florissant, by the old 6th district police station....I read Lewis-Bey book....Lewis-Bey mother lived on Emerson..Petty Boys,Dennis Hayman,Howard Bailey (Chingys Dad) Nova Bennet....Those all old head ballers from back in the day. Me & my homies used to run with Lewis Bey's son Mark when he came to the walls.
He wrote about the games. It was all about individual hoods when I was growing up tailing cottage you couldn’t be caught across Vandeventer. If you did, you were in trouble, there was a look neighborhood game called TC that represent Taylor and cottage
At the 24:45 mark when he said that he’s been looking at comedy because he loves to laugh. I understand him so well. When you go behind the wall, it’s so barbaric and petty that you hardly laugh out loud unless you’re surrounded by your down brothers that would kill for you. It took years for me to accept ppl in my space
A guard was killed behind the Walls in the seventies, and then a guard was killed in Moberly in 1983. They executed an innocent man(Hog Roberts) for the Moberly killing. I don't remember this dude at all!!
I did a earlier interview with a Dan that was friends with Hog Roberts we talked about it in the video and respectfully just because you don’t remember him doesn’t mean he wasn’t there
You're absolutely correct about that, but I was pretty well known in the system and recognize his name. But Milton Jackson and Cleveland Jackson are dudes from that time that when you hear the last name Jackson. Because I was never a drug user, a lot of the people were customers, and so you have no real connection to them. Hog, Fat Fred Krenning, Gary Strohmeyer, Donnie Travis, and Danny Gray, were southside white guys that were holding it down.
Friend this is my brother being interviewed and when he first went to JC was about 1966. I remember those detectives and my brother in handcuffs. I was about 5 or 6. I didn’t know what was happening but I do remember seeing my brother between 2 detectives being taken away.
I wouldn't say that he wasted his life because there's three things that the MOST HI blessed most of us with that ULTIMATELY decides our fate called FREEDOM, CHANCES, N CHOICES go figure
Kids killing kids shooting women,children so nasty out here man i heard old head say he stood solid can home the right war salute big homie staybout here enjoy ur family.
Old head play with them pistals and he know law in them streets as well in jiont it use to be unspoken rules in street but our youth dont abide by them .Like going after family members u see ur oppz lil b brother he off limits back then now they strike ur moms its crazy.
He wrote about the games. It was all about individual hoods when I was growing up tailing cottage you couldn’t be caught across Vandeventer. If you did, you were in trouble, there was a look neighborhood game called TC that represent Taylor and cottage
