PRISONER SURVIVAL TRICKS

            Because even the newest prisons quickly fill up with insect vermin

and spiders, scorpions, etc, every victim should know how to use one to drive

off the other. Since spiders multiply quickly and their young eat prisoners alive

while we sleep, it is a good idea to attract ants. Ants eat flies, cockroaches and

spiders that they can catch, plus carry off

the dead ones.

            Ants can be attracted with a sugar solution made of water and pancake

syrup. Since spiders hide deep in cracks unreachable by any other means, spray

this sugar solution far inside. The ants will move in, causing the spiders to move

out. Every time you see more webs at the entrance, re-spray. Most species of ants

do not eat live humans and few insects will

live near ants. A survival trick often employed by knowledgeable prisoners is to adopt

the plumage of an apparent psychopath in order to scare off other prisoners. Most

prisoners are very frightened of each other and thus form gangs and mutilate their

bodies with scary tattoos for protection. One way to achieve fear and respect in other

prisoners without self-mutilation is

to simply curse the guards. Prisoners tend to try and mob new arrivals to form a

pecking order as do chickens and other barnyard fowl. They are also secretly sucking

up to the guards for favors and thus can't curse them too.

            New arrivals have no special kiss-ass relations with guards and thus can curse

them, thereby gaining cheap respect from the prisoners you are trapped into living with

and among.

     Prisoner culture is pretty simplistic, and like animals, survival largely depends upon

managing to appear too dangerous to harass with impunity.

            Many of the states' prisons have their own festering disease-holes built right

next to them, or in them. These are rural prisons, safely tucked away out of sight of

most observing eyes. They are often built in the center of cow latrines, and thus grow

skads of flies that like to emerge from cow feces and crawl all over and puke on human

faces and lips. Or worse, they have massive sewage lagoons rife with germs that breed

hordes of disease-injecting mosquitoes for three seasons of every year. Protecting

yourselves from these threats is essential to living long enough to escape the states'

slow-death camps.      Older prisoners are most likely to die prematurely of these

"natural causes" that are un-naturally and neglegently presented to the states' millions

 of captives. Mosquitoes alone transmit yellow fever, malaria, west Nile virus, the

"bird" flu and other variations of influenza, equine and other encephalitises along

with no telling what else that hasn't teen uncovered yet. The flies that reproduce in

cow feces are masters of bacterial transfer. The bacteria that come out of antibiotic-

laden bovine intestines are a hardy group that kills thousands of US citizens per year

and are responsible for the yearly emergency recall of tons of infected, deadly ground

meat destined for poor folks' plates.

            In third world countries they get to spray insecticides and mosquito-swamps are

qiven a thin coating of cheap vegetable oil to smother their larvae. Captives of the state

are left to suffer infestations. To survive we must invent our own solutlons to these

problems that the prisoncrats refuse to fix.

            One important Solution is to somehow force the state to repair the screens that

attempt to keep these Tests out. If you are lucky enough to have a "window" with outside

ventilation, you may be forced to buy a screen and weather stripping from the maintenance

men or other black market individuals. Worse, if you have to live with another person who

likes to pass notes, feed the birds and cats or just vandalize stuff for no real reason, you may be

forced to beat some sense into him. I've had encephalitis from Texas mosquitoes for a

week, and believe me, to avoid a second dose of it I'd gladly knock cut a moron no

matter how many scary tattoos he has, how big he is or how many friends he thinks he has.

Once you've secured a working screen, weather stripping is often unobtainable. Wet

relief paper stuffed in the cracks will work to keep the insects from crawling between

the frame and the window. If you've had to compromise with the idiot, or you are yourself

a cat-ranching, bird-feeding, note-passing kind of guy, you can do this:

Get a nasal spray bottle and f111 it with soapy water; detergent if you can get

it. Plain water will not work. Spray all the houseflies and the mosquitoes that are

attracted to your screen at dusk and dawn. (Mosquitoes are nocturnal.) Close the

window to trap them before spraying. Herd them all into one corner to get them all efficiently,

 Insects are attracted by body heat, exhalations of carbon dioxide, sweat

and perfumes. You can't do anything about your infrared signature, but you can

use a fan to blow away your breath and sweat. Place the fan close as possible to blow

from your head to your feet , on high with no oscillation, all night long. The first guy they

will eat is the one who smells like sweat, perfume and carbon dioxide and is easiest to land

on.Often they,feed only once per night. If it is not suffocatingly hot, cover up as much skin

as possible. They go for the mouth and nose first because mosquitos are following the train

of carbon dioxide you exhale. Next they zero in on the arm pits for the sweat, stink and

perfumes here. Their third

target is the crotch. Wad that threadbare sheet up into your pits and crotch. Some

people can make a tent that acts like mosquito netting, but they will bite through

where your skin touches it.     I survived for weeks sleeping this way on a picnic table under

a tree in a back yard while escaped from the state in 1985. It works quite well if done properly.

            In very hot prisons such as those in the south and west captives often wake up with

inexplicable boil, and rashes on the sides of our feet, legs, arms, hands and fingers.

Usually these are caused by skin bacteria that are normally benign until they are switched

on into aggressive mode by plenty of sweat and no oxygen.  They begin munching your live

skin this way because your skin is touching large patches of skin on your other leg, etc.

Skin on sweaty skin shuts off the oxygen. Nursing homes stop these types of bedsores from

occurring by inserting a layer of cloth between places where skin touches skin. This wicks

sweat away from such areas and allows enough oxygen to diffuse through to prevent the

bacteria from switching to their anaerobic mode of metabolism.

If you can afford it and have plenty of stamina for dealing with recalcitrant fools

you may want to try and move the inmates, guards, dungeoncrats, judges, politicians and

media hacks to provide or sell insect repellant. Since it is their sewer lakes, slop

wagons, garbage dumps, farms and trash piles that are breeding this health threat,

they may even fix the problem with standard health department solutions at no cost to you,

if you can generate enough exposure and heat to make them ashamed enough to attempt it.

(See: On Effective Complaining, and the soon to be released "How to Work Your Craticians.)

            Insect repellent works best in prison when sprayed on and around windows,

foodholes and ventcracks. The stuff does not belong on your skin no matter what the

directions say. Following these procedures will keep you healthier longer than if you just blunder

around in the dark as most inmates do. Somebody with brains should take charge, and that

somebody may as well be you. Good luck, and if you have any questions or suggestions, let

me know!

PRISON SURVIVAL TRICK

            One of the things least suspected of prisons and most galling is the

policy on socks, foot care and clothes in general. Upon entering prison, the

inmates in charge of getting clothes from the prison kops and giving them to

you are not to be trusted. Count and inspect everything they give you prior to

signing anything. In ALL prisons there is an artificial "shortage" of clothes,

and a raging black market traffiking in stolen clothes.

            Upon checking into the first prison you are fad to, you will f find that the

kops actually want you to get AND SIGN FOR a certain minimum amount of clothing.

Often these are the cheapest, thinnest, most poorly designed and fitting clothes

that apathetic and incompetent inmates can produce in a prison garment factory

while supervised by cost-cutting guards. The good part is that often they are new

when issued for this first time , meaning that, for example, the underwear is

free of any previous inmate's shit and piss stains. The kops want to have your

signature on a paper that says that you got a coat in winter, for example, but

couldn't care less if it had a lining or functioned as a real coat. All the kops

want is a paper trail in case a prisoner lawsuit ever makes them "prove" anything

to a judge. Fact is, the linings in many prison coats are deliberately ripped out

by the kops because they are, the excuse is, a "threat to security`. The security

threat here is that hungry prisoners hide food in the linings and smuggle it out

of the mess hall to eat or sell later. This excuse of "smuggling!" is also used

by kops to prevent the prisoners from having long sleeved shirts in the winter,

making prisoners quite miserable throughout this season due to the drafty, under-

heated nature of prisons.

            The inmate who issues your clothes from behind the safety of a small,

barred, mesh and Plexiglas covered hole in the wall can: hardly be seen or

recognized in there, either. It is dark inside and often he is Black or at least

swarthy. Inmates who "have game" precipitate into such positions of power and

lucre the same way slick lipped lawyers and politicians obtain high office and

fat "lobbying-(bribery) or "consultant" (sinecure) jobs afterward. This inmate

uses bum's rush tactics and the long line of supplicants behind you, plus time

pressure ("Buddy, I got two hours to get 500 people their clothes") to shove you

a bundle of crap, get your signature and shout “NEXT!" If you allow this, he will

substitute used, trashy, raggedy clothes for your newer at least wearable ones.

(Prison clothes get raggedy quickly and stay that way because inmates have no

desire to take care of state clothes or repair them when the seams burst, buttons

pop off or rips occur. Like minorities in housing projects, they often believe

that the sooner that stuff gets torn up, the sooner they will be awarded more new

stuff.) When the clothes-inmate can slip you raggedy crap, he can sell the new

or good staff to other inmates. This is the way he supports his coffee, cigarette

and twinkie habits.

            This same type of flagrant thievery occurs in the laundry. Inmates all

over the prison are constantly prowling and peeking into everything, looking

for anything of value to pilfer off with. Consequently, you can't send any

good clothes to the laundry: they WILL get stolen and sold to other inmates

who are glad to buy them as long as they can't be traced by the true owner.

Prisoners who try to prevent theft of good clothes by making them traceable,

usually by marking them on the outside, risk being sanctioned by the kops, who

claim that you vandalized "their" clothes. The kops all pretend to be in total

ignorance of the theft and sales going on beneath their noses. Prisoners thus

face two choices: pay one of the clothes-thieves in the laundry to keep track of

your clothes and provide other services such as separate washing or custom

stealing or sewing, or: wash your own clothes by hand in a tiny sink the best you

can with hand soap instead of detergent. (This is one of the reasons that

flesh-eating bacteria are created so prevalently in prison, along with other

super-germs.)

            One of the slickest tricks that the clothing-issue kop/inmate team does is

force you to sign a blank disbursement form before they render you your clothing.

This is so that the loops can legally steal any amount from your prison account

when they shuffle you to a different prison, which is often. They simply claim, usually

quite honestly, that the clothes yen turned in were too raggedy to re-issue. Then they

take from you the dollars that they think their clothes were worth. No allowance for

wear and tear is ever made. The prison kops appear to expect that their clothes will last

forever: there are no accounting techniques for writing off any clothes. The end

result for most new, un-alert prisoners is that we pay top dollar for raggedy,

much-used clothing, get tired and give up on the colossal bureaucratic travail

required to obtain wearable clothes that fit, succumb to buying stolen clothes

on the black market, wear them until they fall off of us, then get shuffled to

a different prison where this same process begins again. The raggedy stuff is

then re-issued to other new prisoners and rarely repaired or thrown away.

By far the most valuable and precious clothing you may or may not get issued

in prison is socks. Some prison kops only pretend to supply socks. Many prison

kops only issue raggedy, worn-out socks. Almost all prisons now SELL socks. They

create a shortage, then profit from supplying it. Right-thinking prisoners with principles

that prevent them from feeding prison sharks by purchasing from thieves and parasites

that which we are entitled to for free employ many strategies to circumvent this type of

common corruption and fraud. On the blank disbursement form that we are forced to sign

prior to obtaining clothes we write the word "coerced" as our middle name. We

sometimes surreptitiously lift the first page and write `VOID:" or, the

underlying copies when possible. Since many prison kops use their security

threat excuse to prevent us from owning nail clippers, our great toe nails grow

long and sharp, which rip holes in our socks after vary few uses. It is routine

for many of us to seek out rough concrete on the "yard", get on all fours and

grind our great toe nails down to manageable size periodically. Our toenails are

so ragged that they snag and rip out the elastic threads every time we put our

socks on. Many prisoners respond by wearing our socks inside-out: this In lessens

the snagging and ripping somewhat.  We also prefer tube socks because they can

be turned four different ways before four great toe holes are ripped in each

sock, forcing them to be resewed or thrown away for lack of sewing kits, or

exchanged, if possible. Form-fitting socks can only be worn two different ways,

such as switching left and right and inside out but not upside-down. Prison

dryers are often set so hot to dry fast that they ruin the elastic in socks after

only two or three cycles. New prisoners learn this too late and their socks droop

off their ankles before they realize that socks must be hand-washed in the

sinks, again without proper soap.

            Prisoners need to realize too that the kops intentionally steal many or

all of the clothes that they have tricked prisoners into buying each time they

shuffle us to and from different prisons. Our property is confiscated and

pilphered-through by kops before we leave, plus it is pilfered through by

the kops of the prison they ship us to. The main purpose of this thievery is to

maximize sales and profits to the guards. Prisoners with principles minimize

their purchase of guard-sold items and try to force kops to continue to supply

for free that which we are entitled to. Within very few more years the inmate

sell-outs will have allowed the kops to shift prison costs almost totally onto

the backs of our families and ourselves. The kops' efforts to force us to pay

for their abduction and enslavery of us should be resisted as a high priority.

The cheaper they can operate prisons and the higher their taxpeyer-subsidies

and prisoner-profits of prisons, the more prisons they will build and the more

people they will encriminalize to keep them bursting-full and overflowing,

needing ever more guards, cops, lawyers, prosecutors, Judges and politicians,

etc to run them. Prisons are their cash cow 1n this so-called land of the free.

No one should have to suffer their depredations.