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 A prisoner serving a life term as California State Prison and Substance Abuse Treatment Facility in Corcoran published his confession to the brutal murder in January 2020 of two convicted child molesters with whom he was housed. Jonathan Watson, 41, sent a letter in February 2020 to the San Jose Mercury News, […]
By Mike Enemigo On May 21, 2019, a 143-page federal indictment was filed that described criminal violations allegedly committed by Ronald Yandell, Daniel Troxell, William Sylvester, Travis Burhop, Brant Daniel, Donald Mazza, Pat Brady, Jason Corbett, Matthew Hall, Samuel Keeton, Michael Torres, Jeanna Quesenberry, Kevin McNamara, Kristen Demar, Justin Petty and Kathleen Nolan. The indictment […]
“If a person has done even a couple of years in prison and possess even the most basic means to obtain literature,…
“Those who strive to obtain the good graces of a prince are accustomed to come before him with such things as they…
Tattoos are virtually a rite of prison passage, and the designs, where they are placed and what they signify often have more…
A new artificial intelligence (AI) system targets key words and phrases during monitored phone calls from…
The “Feeling Cute” social mediachallenge went viral in the spring of 2019, with photos tagged…
The prison experience meets social media. The popularity of YouTube prison channels that show viewers a slice…
Joe Morgan was born April 10, 1929, to Croatian immigrants in San Pedro, California. Shortly after, he and his mother…