Sunday May 12, 2013 will mark ACX's 2nd birthday! We've grown a lot, and we've come a long way since that fateful day two years ago. Our success is all due to two groups: the amazing ACX users (that's you!) and our fantastic team behind the scenes at Audible.
For our second birthday, you'll get to meet some of the ACX team and take a trip down memory lane with us, as we share some fun facts and stats from our first two years.
ACX rocks! Thanks for all the behind the scenes work! As a best selling author, I always wanted to narrate my own books, and you made that possible with all the instructional help. Now I’m meeting TV producers and learning a lot more about how to write and pitch a reality show. What a path you guys opened up! http://amzn.to/11qeWeU
A California parole agent was accused of soliciting one of his parolees
to kill another. Numerous corrections department employees allegedly had
sex with inmates, including juveniles.
And a prison guard was suspected of carousing regularly with prisoners,
even joining them as they drank a form of booze the inmates manufactured
themselves.
The incidents are among 278 cases of alleged employee misconduct…
Thanks for this post. It reminds me of when I was in prison on drug charges at Centinella on the border of Mexico. We had prison guards who told us to stab people on the yard, not in the building. They also told us about a "Child Molester" who was later stabbed on the yard. We bought tobacco cans of buglar from the "free staff" who worked in the kitchen for $100. and cell phones from other "state workers". Oh yeah and when a race/gang war kept us locked down for half the year, some of the guards would pop cells during showers, like the "Gladiator" stuff they mentioned doesn't happen anymore. Still happens. I know a lot and write about it in books now. Dirty little secrets, like hazard pay during those lockdown equals time and a half. Interesting stuff. Check out a free sample of my audio books here~ http://amzn.to/XPyqGV
I appreciate all the hard work the angel of a lady who runs this website for prison reform. I also appreciate that she has a link to my prison books! God is good. California's prison system is so overcrowded with petty drug users that medical attention and rehabilitation isn't possible. When you pack humans into cages like sardines the equation spits out tattooed down gang members. It isn't a puzzle or a rubix cube.
To purchase Glenn Langohr’s complete list of books in print go here~ http://amzn.to/ZB8sCB
I was not too surprised when I read Glenn’s latest book Prison Riot. I previously reviewed Underdog here !
This book was about what happens after a prison riot. The prison dynamic is a hard one to follow, and is not for the faint of heart. Being in lock down was horrible. They do not care if they get your name right, or your information right. The main goal is to keep the prison safe. What has to be done to ensure your own personal safety was a little surreal to me. We take for granted how we live, and our freedom. The thing that I took for granted the most was showers. It is a good thing that these prisoners were not afraid of small spaces. I would be terrified. The guards own you, and everything you do. This is a true story, and that made me feel even more for the innocent prisoners that were not involved in the prison riot. I recommend this to crime buffs everywhere so that they can see the other side of law enforcement. I am Giving this book a 5/5, because I am still interested in reading more from this author. Even though I have already read two of his books.
Race, Women and Prison. Thank you for posting this. I’m glad to see some stats come out to show that the War on Drugs is a War on people with a disease. Addiction is color blind. Mental issues that lead to drug addiction like ADHD, can’t see the color of a person’s skin. Poverty does play a factor in who goes to prison and who gets a slap on the hand but times have changed. It is all about the 99% conviction ratio in the D.A.’s office to get elected these days. We need more smart on crime and that should start with sending people to prison who steal votes, steal money and people who create the laws to benefit themselves while pointing the finger and yelling criminal to those in poverty of every color.
Judges Opt for “Drug Courts” in Non-violent Cases. Check out this awesome post about a solution to the Drug War. Thanks for your tireless work David. I am in favor of drug court compared to prison sentences for low level drug addicts. I have seen some amazing examples of drug addicts recovering and getting back on their feet. The program is incredibly hard and tedious. The offender has to jump through so many hoops like, show up to court every week with requirements such as job search proof, required meetings for sobriety and other mandatory actions. All of that work toward a new life is a far better alternative to a prison sentence where violence and gangs take over as a form of survival. Speaking from experience here.
"Implemented in October 2011, Governor Jerry Brown’s Realignment law (AB109), has re-classified thousands of criminals as non-serious, non-violent, and non-sexual offenders and prohibited them from receiving prison sentences for committing new, so-called low-level felonies or violating parole. Under Realignment, if a felon’s current and prior convictions are from this “non, non, non” category the sentencing options are: a short term in an overcrowded county jail, light supervision on probation, a treatment program, home detention with a GPS ankle bracelet or a combination of these.
This is a great post to show that we are headed for more terror tactics to support "Tough on Crime Political Stances" You can twist the numbers to keep the general public in fear of crime to continue to build prisons, until, the money runs out to pay the prison guards.
about his book: Lock Up Abroad contacted me to be on their show this year as they focus on Prison Life in the U.S. They want me to be in one of the final episodes to end with a redemptive theme. While being interviewed they asked me, “How much of your books are fiction?” I told them, “Society can’t handle all of the truth!” With this in mind, I wrote Prison Riot.
Prison Riot is a true crime memoir where BJ, a young and battle tested inmate serving time on drug charges, gets caught up in a Mexican gang war over gangland tattoos. The prison explodes into chaos as each building erupts in deadly violence. For BJ, the war isn’t over when he and over a hundred inmates get housed in solitary confinement, it’s just beginning. For getting involved, he’s labeled a southern Mexican gangster.
• “Wow! I read this book in one sitting, I couldn’t put it down. The way Mr. Langhor writes this book, made me feel like I was in that cell woth B.J. and Giant, I actually felt claustrophobic and trapped and could almost feel the pepper spray burning me.” — MSMAD 2009
• “I am reading all of this authors books and this one is incredible. I can’t even imagine having to survive through what this guy has lived through. Prison war riot, Solitary confinement, respect, pride, survival. Forget reality TV, this is much better, it is reality!” — JDOG
To check out all 8 of Glenn Langohr’s books in print, kindle or audio book (Listen to a free sample) go here~ http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00571NY5A Sharing is caring so pass it on and leave reviews to keep it pumping.
