Welcome to the second episode of It's All Bad.

And this week we're going to talk about

Bolsom Prison Blues.

Ah, so much blues.

We have Keith, we have Russian Danny, we have our producer Charlie here, and I'm Mike,

and Keith, I'm going to turn that over to you.

Okay, the sirens reminded me of this story.

So I guess it was about, I'm going to say it was 1993.

And I was at Chino West Yard.

And anyway, so they call your name over the chain, you know, so forth and so on.

And depending on where you're going, you know, there's different ways to prep it.

But in particular, um, can I ask one question?

I'm sorry.

What's the chain?

Oh, the chain is the, the bus that takes you from either the county jail to prison or from prison to prison. Copy. In this case, it was from prison to prison. So anyway, most places you go, you know, you get your, you put your stuff in a bag, you give it to the cops.

They chain you up, take you up there, and then you get it the next morning after you've been assigned to sell. In this case, you know, at Old Folsom and San Quentin, and I think Soledat as well, those prisons, they run the same way they did in the old days. Like, they don't have electric gates.

It's like crank gates, you know, like the hydraulic shit, but it's like hand cranks.

Anyway, so there, you go in a place called Fish Row for a couple of weeks before you get any of your property. So if you want to bring any drugs or tobacco, any kind of contraband, you have to take it to the hoop.

You have to put it in warm storage. So you, whatever you have to take has to come in your anus. Anyway, so I just went to the store and about six or seven of our friends, we had all got called to go to Old Folsom. And so I had a couple of can, you know, we rolled our own cigarettes. I had a couple of cans to tobacco. So you take a glove. When you hear that you have to move, does everything start to loosen down there? No, it actually starts to tighten. Okay. None of us had ever carried anything of that girth. Copy. I don't, one guy had this older guy, Critter from Almani, but he had... Critter. Yeah. Critter. Critter. He had that. Yeah. Girt had me. So, you know, you cram it into the finger of a latex glove and then tie it in a knot and then put another one, tie it in a knot, another one so it doesn't come open and give you out uh tobacco poisoning so anyway so we're all sitting you know at my bunk and we're packing these things and they're about

the they're about half of a cigar in length and they're about the same uh diameter as a cigar you know

and they're rock hard because there's quite a good pile of tobacco in there.

Like, if you undo it, it's about the size of a package of top ramen packed into that small thing.

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