During my first 16-yrs (1990-2006) in the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), I was incarcerated as both a drug and political prisoner. (Of course, the American Gulag doesn’t have any “political prisoners” so they use the term Management Variable as a catch-all designation.)
After 16-yrs in high- and medium-security prisons, I was designated minimum-security and transferred to a camp in 2006. more…


