By Daniel Genis I was a good cook before I went to prison. I’d cooked all my life, seducing girls with my culinary skills and impressing college ramen eaters by flipping and dicing without ever looking. I was also well-traveled and proud of having sampled an array of unmentionable organs and hideous fish. On better […]
By Mike Enemigo FUNDAMENTAL TECHNIQUES IN HANDLING PEOPLE Don’t criticize, condemn or complain. Give honest and sincere appreciation. Arouse in the other person an eager want. SIX WAYS TO MAKE PEOPLE LIKE YOU Become genuinely interested in other people. Smile. Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound […]
By Mike Enemigo When criminal defense attorney William Kroger visited his clients in California prisons, he noticed that just a few months behind bars seemed to whip many of them into shape. Because the state had removed all weightlifting equipment from its prisons over 20 years earlier, Kroger wondered: How were they getting those impressive […]
By Mike Enemigo Stanley “Tookie” Williams cofounded the notorious Crips street gang in 1971, at the age of 17, with fellow teenager Raymond Washington. By 1981, Tookie was on California’s death row at San Quentin State Prison after being convicted or two robberies and four murders. While doing a seven-year stint in the “hole” after […]