The real truth about prison with author Glenn Thomas Langohr. Please join us and feel free to call in with comments or questions. Also the chat room will be open during our broadcast.
Author Glenn Thomas Langohr‘s insight:
It was great to be on the radio with Gloria Goodwin-killian about Prison conditions. If anyone has time to listen and or leave a comment to show the advocates who run the show to help prisoners that they are being heard, I appreciate it!
While reading Prison Riot, I was struck by how similar this story is to the classic Melville novella, Billy Budd. Of course, the latter was written in a much more stilted voice, and was built on Biblical allegory – but the thread of the story is very much the same.
Here we have a power struggle between a cruel and sadistic Corrections Lieutenant, and a fair minded but ineffectual Warden.
Three boys rescued by prison inmates after canoe capsizes on creek. Check out this cool site posting stuff about my books. Look at his other post about prisoners rescuing kids while out on a work detail. How cool is that? I love it when prisoners get a chance to show the world they are human also!
about his book: I wrote Underdog while some of the California prisoners were involved in a peaceful hunger strike to get attention to their plight. I published this book one day after Christian Gomez died from not eating at Corcoran State Prison. This book is especially important to me because I spent 10 years in prison on drug charges and turned my life around through writing while in solitary confinement where the hunger strikes started.
“And ex-con Langohr can describe the hell of life inside better than any other writer. His vivid passages on just surviving in prison describe a nightmare we’d rather not know about. He compares the plight of abandoned dogs, locked and horribly mistreated in rows of cages in animal shelters, to California prison inmates, locked and abused in the same cages.”
— John South, American Media
• “This book does not glamorize prison life but rather accurately reports on the cruel reality, which may shock and frighten many readers. The author skillfully makes the point that the general public has more awareness for and more compassion for caged dogs than for prisoners.”
— JT Kalnay Attorney
From the article: "Delbert Miller, 69, was found unresponsive in his cell Thursday morning and was pronounced dead a short time later. Investigators identified Miller's cellmate, 20-year-old Kyle Osborn, as the suspect."
He got killed because he was convicted of rape. In California prisons inmates run background checks by checking paperwork. I know because I spent 10 years in prison on drug charges before becoming a best selling author
Thanks for posting this! It sucks is that the rapist killed the other guy. Usually it is the other way around. High Desert is off the hook with prison politics. It is one of the craziest prisons in California because the Pelican Bay SHU releases prisoners done with their solitary time there and Salinas Valley, another level 4 fire cracker. I spent 10 years in some of California's worst prisons on drug charges and started writing books from solitary confinement. God is good, now I have 8 published. http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00571NY5A
For the next 5 posts, I've decided to take a cue from the classic college application question: If you could have dinner with five famous people (alive or dead) who would they be and why? It's a good question because it shows what you value in a person, and what you hope to gain from the interaction. So without further ado, the first person who came to mind was Oprah Winfrey.
This video by I Shot Him, a San Francisco based graphics studio, details the effects of America's drug war, in Mexico and chronicles the violence by
Mexican Cartels and the military. The video is also available on YouTube, but only with their speech recognition captioning, which even in a simple - single voice - video such as this, is still horribly inaccurate.
