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Four of us Old Heads were in the bocce court over the holiday weekend. The prison staff occupies our free-time with various competitions. Benny and his partner, Gene, were winning.
Gene I could understand. As a top Mafia capo out of Brooklyn, he was raised playing the game. But Benny? Benny was born with a silver spoon up his ass to a wealthy Connecticut family. He took his father’s fortune to new heights manipulating Wall Street. Bocce? more…
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One of the worksites for inmates at the Federal Prison Camp (FPC) Pensacola, FL, is a 30-minute ride south to the Pensacola Naval Air Station (PNAS), home of the Blue Angels on the Gulf of Mexico.
Blue Angels, PNAS
Each weekday shortly after dawn, five buses carry some 225 prisoners to the base for ground’s keeping, general construction, road and sidewalk repair, vehicle maintenance, haz-mat clean-ups, and even tending the admiral’s garden.
The vast bulk of the federal Bureau of Prisons population (now some 212,000) are in higher security institutions, behind walls, gun-towers and/or multiple rows of razor-wire fencing…so what’s not to like about being in a Club Fed? Careful what you wish for… more…
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