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How much money do inmates make and spend in prison?
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2022-08-16T16:33:04.000Z
2022-08-16T16:33:04.000Z
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<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10771915489?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>By <a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank">Gangsters Inc.</a> Editors</p>
<p>People in prison get “three hots and a cot,” right? So, what do they need money for? A lot, it turns out. If they want to spend their time behind bars with some kind of comfort that is. When you’re locked up, comfort costs and quickly turns into a luxury.</p>
<p>Prisons typically provide the bare minimum when it comes to food, clothes, shoes and hygiene supplies. Some states provide items such as toothpaste, soap and limited amounts of letter-writing supplies only to the “indigent,” or those who have little to no money. Other goods that many would consider necessities — deodorant, shampoo, sneakers, thermal clothes for winter — are often only available to people who can afford them.</p>
<p>But earning enough from a prison job is nearly impossible: The average prison wage maxes out at 52 cents per hour, according to a new ACLU analysis, and many people make pennies per hour. That means that basics, like a $3 tube of toothpaste, can take days of work to afford. If you get paid, that is. In at least six states — Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas — most prisoners aren’t paid at all for their labor.</p>
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<p>To make up for their paltry wages, people in prison often take part in a thriving underground economy of side hustles, bartering stamps or commissary items for everything from hand-drawn greeting cards to makeshift home cooking to legal help.</p>
<p>In recent months, <a href="https://www.themarshallproject.org/about?via=navright" target="_blank">The Marshall Project</a> has corresponded with dozens of incarcerated people about the money they make, the money they spend and the lengths to which they go to secure basic needs and comforts.</p>
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<p>Members of The Marshall Project asked several people to log their transactions; and sent receipts and monthly account statements for commissary purchases. Along with that information, they gathered commissary catalogs and conducted email and phone interviews about their official prison jobs and side hustles. Most are serving long sentences for serious crimes; some have spent decades behind bars.</p>
<p><em>Read their stories <a href="https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/08/04/prison-money-diaries-what-people-really-make-and-spend-behind-bars?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=planetmoney&utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20220811&utm_term=7098628&utm_campaign=money&utm_id=5038570&orgid=454&utm_att1=" target="_blank">here</a> to learn how they navigate and survive, often through sheer determination and ingenuity, the harsh reality of prison economics. </em><a href="https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/08/04/prison-money-diaries-what-people-really-make-and-spend-behind-bars?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=planetmoney&utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20220811&utm_term=7098628&utm_campaign=money&utm_id=5038570&orgid=454&utm_att1=" target="_blank"><em>Prison Money Diaries: What People Really Make (and Spend) Behind Bars</em></a></p>
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Strangling your cellmate just to gain respect
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2022-06-25T08:57:31.000Z
2022-06-25T08:57:31.000Z
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<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10594582259?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>By David Amoruso for <a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank">Gangsters Inc.</a></p>
<p>Prison is hell. At night inmates can frequently hear the cries of others who wished they were anywhere else but in their cell. It is a hard place. Kill or be killed. One inmate serving time in the Coleman Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) made a calculated decision where he stood in the scheme of things.</p>
<p>37-year-old Romeo Lopez-Hernandez was housed in the Special Housing Unit of Coleman FCI in Sumter County when he wrapped a bedsheet around the neck of his cellmate and choked the life out of him.</p>
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<p>Afterwards, he hid the lifeless corpse behind the bedsheet so that correctional officers wouldn’t find him. When he saw an opportunity, he strangled his cellmate again. He then hid the body again.</p>
<p>This went on until he was sure the victim was dead.</p>
<p>Authorities found him lying face down and unconscious on his bed with a bedsheet wrapped around his neck and tied to the bedpost. Dark ligature marks were apparent around the victim’s neck, and a medical examiner confirmed that he had died by strangulation.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Confession</strong></span></p>
<p>When interviewed by the FBI, Lopez-Hernandez gave a full confession. He detailed repeatedly strangling the victim in intervals and concealing the body behind a bedsheet.</p>
<p>What did his cellmate do to deserve such a violent death, investigators asked. Not much, apparently. One of his main reasons for killing the victim, Lopez-Hernandez told them, was to maintain respect from other inmates.</p>
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<p>Either you are the hunter or you are the prey, it seems.</p>
<p>On Thursday, authorities charged Lopez-Hernandez with the first-degree premeditated murder of his cellmate. If convicted, and he most likely will be, he faces a mandatory term of life imprisonment.</p>
<p><em>Note: Photo above was taken from the Netflix movie Shot Caller.</em></p>
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Russian gangster uses forklift truck to escape from Belgian prison
https://gangstersinc.org/blog/russian-gangster-uses-forklift-truck-to-escape-from-belgian-priso
2021-08-06T10:11:12.000Z
2021-08-06T10:11:12.000Z
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<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9387529667?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=389"></div><div><p>By <a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank">Gangsters Inc.</a> Editors</p>
<p>A Russian gangster managed to escape from a Belgian prison on Wednesday by using a forklift truck to climb over the penitentiary’s wall. 40-year-old Mouslim Aboubakarov (photo above) was serving a 10 to 15-year sentence for violent robberies, holding and torturing hostages, and possession of an illegal weapon.</p>
<p>He had been locked up in a prison in the city of Gent since 2012 and had managed to win the trust of prison authorities, getting a job which allowed him to move around the penitentiary with more freedom.</p>
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<p>It is how he was able to get a forklift truck and drive it up to the outer prison wall near the entry gate around 10:45 on Wednesday morning, climb over it and make his big get away via a nearby roof.</p>
<p>Belgium has issued an international arrest warrant for the escapee.</p>
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