This is a Glass Box Media Podcast. Why do you seem so scared? All I wanted to do is play with you. Please come and play with me.

I am so lonely. You're not afraid of the doll, are you? Don't be afraid,

come with me. I will show you where I play hide and seek. Do you want to play hide and seek? You hide and I'll find you. As any inmate or prison guard will tell you, losing your freedom is not the worst thing about prison culture.

The following accounts by both ex-convicts and correctional officers

are both disturbing and nauseating.

I wouldn't recommend listening to this episode less than a half hour after a meal.

The first section is by prison guards.

My dad used to work as a CO and he would never tell me any stories about his time there

until one day of constant badgering he told me the tale of the Easter surprise

Easter morning one of the inmates thought it would be a brilliant idea to get completely naked and shove a toilet scrubber all the way up his ass so that the only

part visible was his bristled, quote, bunny tail.

He then proceeded to scream that he was the Easter Bunny while trying to hop around and avoid the oncoming guards.

My dad was installing a ventilation system at a woman's prison. He had a nice chat in a sandwich

with an inmate. After they said goodbye to each other, a guard told my dad that the woman was

sentenced for life because she killed her husband and put the body through a meat grinder.

My dad is retired from the Federal Bureau of Prisons and started out in the California

Prison System. There are a lot of stories. and started out in the California prison system.

There are a lot of stories that us kids didn't find out about until he was retired.

He was attacked with a pipe and almost died.

He doesn't know who attacked him or why. He was on the kill list from the Mexican

mafia and my mom got threatening phone calls from people saying they were watching us kids at the bus stop.

He transported inmates back to Cuba,

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