Feel like I should put this out there

[jesse gooch]

I’ve been asked by somebody I know to spread the word about a book that a guy I know wrote in prison. It can’t be considered P-related, and it isn’t a typical prison memoir, but most people that read it like it, and for anybody interested in some of the realities of what lead to a decent kid doing a life sentence in prison, (30 years, you do about 20-22) it’s worth their time. Check it out if you have a few minutes and the inclination, it’s a pretty fast read.

"Easy" (Zeke Caligiuri) is a quiet, smart guy that stayed out of the prison politics. I only dealt with him on a casual basis since I was involved in a lot of shit he tried to stay out of, but several lifers I knew vouched for him and told me/us to respect him and keep him out of the nonsense if we could. I was also assured that he couldn’t fight his way out of a paper bag so he wouldn’t be of much use anyway. Luckily for the state, and unluckily for him, he stayed out of trouble long enough that his custody points dropped and he became medium custody. Now he is in a county jail in MN where he and a lot of other state inmates are. The county charges the state a daily fee to hold him, and the state gets to pack more drug offenders into Stillwater, the most violent prison in the state. When that happens, you lose all of the privileges you had in state prison like TV, fresh air, gym, and decent commissary. Phone calls also cost over $5 for 15 minutes in jail. It won’t get him out any quicker, it was just his reward for staying out of trouble and being a model inmate. I’ll post a link to the book and one to his DOC face sheet.

Thanks - Gooch

https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/this-is-where-i-am <https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/this-is-where-i-am>

https://coms.doc.state.mn.us/publicviewer/OffenderDetails/Index/205553/Search <https://coms.doc.state.mn.us/publicviewer/OffenderDetails/Index/205553/Search>



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