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i had a cellmate who was an axe he killed a man with an axe handle on an air force base good dude i know you're saying what do you mean good dude good dude i trusted him hi i'm larry lawton america's biggest jewel dean join me as i walk you through my past robberies how i planned them executed them and ultimately got caught i'm going to show you how we did things in prison like making the tattoo gun making wine making white lightning it's going to be very educational these are the untold stories hey everybody larry lawton here again for another great edition of untold stories and this is going to be a good one this is called the 10 unwritten rules you need to know about prison before i get started again check out our member programs check out our instagram facebook please check out our merch whatever you can do don't forget to subscribe and please tell a friend we're really trying to build this thing for a lot of good reasons and the main reason is to build up a prison reform group that's going to be making changes into a system we all know is broke so let me get into this next uh thing i wanted to tell you guys about it's called the 10 unwritten rules and it's about prison because if you didn't know these one you could lose your life get stabbed have a really rough time i get called all the time about people who made mistakes they will be going to prison and it all of course depends on what level prison you're going to but let me get right into the unwritten rules because they're important things you would need to know if you went to prison the first thing you do obviously when you go into prison don't believe anybody there is your buddy but the first unwritten rule is to look at what people are wearing on their feet and you're saying to me what are you talking about larry here's exactly what i'm talking about when i was transferred and i was transferred a lot because i was a i guess you would just call me a troubled inmate a convict who didn't care would fight the system they gave me diesel therapy they did a lot of things to me to make my life rough in prison well they transfer you obviously i ended up having a very good reputation in prison so i was a convict and people knew me and you go from one place to another you're into what they call con air the air transport which i'll be doing a video on but anyway as far as the 100 rules that first rule is what are people wearing and here's why it's important if i go into a prison and i come on the yard i got my begged role i'm getting assigned to one of the units you walk into the unit you see people milling around all the time they could be up on the tears looking down at you it's kind of intimidating if you don't understand what's going on they're sizing you up seeing who you are seeing what kind of guy how you carry yourself are you meek are you aggressive are you tough are you the way you walk the way you look at people the way you don't stare them down but you don't look away it's there's an art to all of that well the first thing i do is look at what they're wearing here's why if i see people wearing flip-flops i'm looking this isn't it's not ready to jump off if you see people wearing boots they're issued boots the prison issues boots if you see people wearing their boots why are they all wearing their boots if you see people in sneakers and boots and stuff like that you're saying to yourself what's going on here usually when people are wearing stuff like that you know especially like if you're in the unit and you come in later in the night or sometimes you'll come in after child they'll release you from r d depending on what time they release you when you get to that unit if you see people with sneakers milling around you can feel it you can feel tension something might jump off you're not involved i'm not saying no get involved and don't get involved but something might jump off so you better be on your p's and q's you better be ready at all times to step back get out of the way watch two guys go at it you don't try to break stuff up you just back away it's not your beef you just are convict you're looking at them but you better know that now if i see people just joking around and they're walking around and flip-flops and stuff they just got out of their shower and it's like like old home week here this place is not going to scare me too much it's okay it's a prison things can happen but okay there's not a tension-filled place you'll know tension right away in a prison absolutely right away you'll know it and boy i get that feeling to this day no matter what i do i can feel tension all the time it's just what i am the second thing you want to know in the unwritten rules what's the shower situation listen i like to be clean i don't ever want to be a dirty person you don't want to be a dirty person in prison you know the worst thing you can do is be a dude that smells doesn't clean up after himself and be with a celli i once took a dude's face and grabbed him by the pack of his hair and smashed his face into a concrete wall blood started pouring all over the place he just falls down and i did that because after two times he used to shave we all shave and you know they have the sink and the toilet together you know here's a picture of it right here and in that you better clean up after yourself if you brush your teeth you don't leave toothpaste in the bottom of that you shave you don't leave your shavings you know the hair is in there whatever it is you clean that out just like you take your toilet you know you got a a single unit as you can see in the picture it's the single units when you go down you use that toilet you clean that you take a piss you take toilet paper and you clean that that toilet that that car seat cover there's no seat cover you're sitting on stainless steel but you want to be seeing piss stuff on that and somebody if i if i got a selling he walks in and you know let's say they assign someone usually you don't let that happen depending on the place you're at they get a guy and he comes in your cell and you know he says hi how you doing hey what's up i'll know within five minutes what kind of dude this dude is is he a convict or is he a newbie you know is he scared so he don't know how to act and way he handles himself right around that toilet area and and stuff i'm gonna know what kind of guy he is and i want to know what kind of guy he is because i'm not know what i'm dealing with the guy that i smashed i didn't just smash him i told him a few times he said listen man clean up man we eat we get water out of that sink you know we fill up our bowls and you know you put water in there and you might get that water for uh your rice and then you're gonna put your rice in the microwave or you're gonna make hot water you're gonna you know you take the water out of that you go boil it in in the microwave for coffee in the morning listen you clean up after yourself that's important but you want to know the second rule is the shower situation what's it like where do they go whose shower is who so when you're going in that unit you want to know the shower situation what i mean by that is they had three showers on each six hours on each side of the unit and the top left was where the white dudes used to go that was kind of their shower another shower is where the hispanics go another shower is where the blacks go another shower is maybe where you you know shit's going on like we used to make wine in one so a lot of times guys couldn't take a shower because we were literally cooking wine and we made the wine out of that shower so it's important to know the shower situation and you don't just walk around like obviously when i say watch the shower situation you got to watch for a minute when you see two people go to shower or a person go to the shower or they go with their bag and a towel just not giving a crap and it's okay there's no tension or are they walking to that shower with their boots on and they're friends with them and then you'll see their friend just stand on the rail you know outside the shower just looking around watching you know seeing what's coming because his friend might see two dudes coming up maybe trying to hit that guy maybe that guy's got you know something wrong something happened and his friend is gonna hey bang on that door and say man get any guy puts his boots on and he gets his shank and he's ready to go i don't care if his weenies hanging out doesn't mean anything he's got his shank and he's got his boots because you sure don't want to be left with your dick hanging in your hand if they're coming after you with a uh a shank so it's important to know the shower situation watch it if you see uh you'll feel it you'll see how people are reacting what times they shower you'll get to get an idea of how the groove goes are the showers even open in a day sometimes they're not who's cleaning the showers it's the orderlies in the unit but you don't want to just disrespect the dude and just go in while he just did something he didn't get it inspected by the co he's going to look at you like who's this dude you want to know the shower situation it's important the next rule you want to know is the tv rules what's going on in the tv rooms in atlanta we had four tv rooms we had a black tv room a spanish tv room a white tv room and a sports tv room everybody hung out now that does not mean larry can't go to the black tv room he's not gonna he's not gonna sit in there and take a spot from somebody in that room that's going in there all the time vice versa the black guys don't come into the white guy's room now are we friends you come on in hey la you know uh what's going on need to speak to you for a sec sure you know come on in for a second what's going on hey hey you know you're running the football tickets and i had a winner man look at the game look at the ticket it's guaranteed you can see i didn't mess something up you could talk to him it's not like you can't meet people or talk to people in tv rooms but you see which tv room is yours or with your race they could say oh there's no race going on in pr there is depending on the prison you're in the prison actually promotes it as sad as that is because they rather have the blacks fighting the whites or the hispanics fighting the blacks so they're not worried about themselves the prison they actually trust me they don't like that in their own way the fourth is politics what's the prison politics when i went into atlanta you know i hated the mob politics i call it the mob politics and the mafia stuff oh you get these old-timers hey you should talk to him wait man that guy's no good you better be careful with it as much as you might not like it you got to know it you got to know who's the guy to go to you got to know who the shot caller is in each group and the black guy's got a shot called a hispanic's got a shot call the indians got a shot caller the white guy's got a shot caller those are the guys you go to if you have a big beef with someone before you do something on your own they might say wait let's talk to this shot call and they might say hey listen hit him do what you want stab him up do what you're gonna do it's you know he's open do what you want the fifth chow hall seating you think what you're gonna hook up with somebody and then you gotta know again the chow ho what side to go to because usually there's two sides uh where is your seating area give or take i watch the man get killed for sitting in the wrong section killed for sitting in the wrong section uh obviously people don't just come up and stab you if that happens but you might think they're trying to intimidate you and you try to get buck up and say man oh you you know before you know it you're in a situation over sitting in the wrong seat and when i say wrong seat maybe the shot caller sits in that spot every day at 12 o'clock why would you start trouble by sitting in that seat like you're a badass you don't test them like that this isn't the county jail where you got to hit somebody and make it known that you're you know you're not going to be pushed over this is prison this is where you're going to live for the next x amount of years and you want to survive it depending on where it is you want to survive it next is the commissary the commissary is the store of a prison and let me tell you why how important a commissary store is you go to commissary every week you have a certain day of the week to go to that store by your number my number was two two four zero zero four so two two four my would be last four they might say all even numbers go on tuesdays all odd numbers go on wednesday or whatever system that prison has set up you got to know the commissary in atlanta when i went to atlanta atlanta it was so well you would get robbed coming from commissary because there was what they call a blind area so people would literally get robbed like is it like it's a shakedown or a robbery you got to know what kind of place it is and who to go with and hey you got to get to know the right people that you're not a pushover you're not going to give your [ __ ] up what are the items that are hot in this prison you know certain things are are needed and then that goes into the next rule you got to know who the store men are and you go what do you mean what's a storeman a storeman is a guy in prison who runs a literally a store and he'll charge two for three so if you borrow two soups from him you gotta give him three stoop soups backdoor on his commissary day if you borrow a bar a suit so you might have to give him two bars of soap when you come back or he'll give you two and you gotta give him three bars or so you can buy pretty much anything off a store man some of the store man sell actual sandwiches they'll sell drugs of course some some sell anything from sex to drugs to whatever but the store man usually sells items that are on the commissary and that dude wants his [ __ ] back and if you don't pay him you're going to get stabbed trust me you will get stabbed and it's important to know who's the good dudes who's solid who you could talk to who if you had an issue your money didn't come the guy's not going to really get offended because it was a legit thing you know people aren't [ __ ] in there you know they want their money they lent you something you give it back you want to borrow a book of stamps you got to give a book and a half back because that's how the money is in prison stamps you got to understand what the money is in prison the most unwritten rule when i was in and it has changed a little bit not totally is who's you sell me trust me who's you sell me i had a cellmate who was an axe he killed a man with an axe handle on an air force base good dude i know you're saying what do you mean good dude good dude i trusted him you gotta know you're selling because there was a selly there a guy who's stabbed his celly in the chest killed him put a shank right in his chest and went back to bed you better know unwritten rule you got to be able to read people and get that selly that's normal because trust me it's worth you bucking it and going to the hole and fighting then getting into a cell with the wrong guy because how would you like to be locked down with a guy who is a psychopath and at 10 o'clock at night when the doors are locked and there's really no guards around even in the units you could be dying in that unit they don't give a [ __ ] this guy kills you because he's a violent psychopath you got to feel that out you got to know the couple dudes you gotta rap with people you gotta know how to speak understanding how to talk to people is probably the best skill you could have number nine very good important rule who's the snitches in that place trust me there's snitches in all prisons you'll see them the little freaking weasels they're up near the guard talking like they're little like little buddies and stuff and you're looking at me who's this [ __ ] you gotta watch who the snitches are and they have what they call note droppers or dry snitchers you know people who do it sneakily sneak a note under the counselor's door hand a note out at night and they put it in the mailbox and then the guards check the mail every night when they get it out and they see a note you know lawton's got a shank in his cell that's how you get people shaken down and people you got to kind of know who they are you can watch the prison for a little bit and figure out who's the stand up guys who's the convicts that is super important and finally a very important unwritten rule in prison is the yard you want your wreck you want to get out there and you want to have wreck you want to play handball you want to play basketball you want to work out you want to go do pull-ups and dips and you want to walk the track feel fresh air get sun on your face you gotta know the yard rules in prison you'll see different groups in different sections of a yard you can feel tension on a yard right away and you'll see something jump off and in a penitentiary though they will shoot down on that yard with the gun towers that are around that yard and they will fire down on that yard man when they say get down on a yard boom you drop because they will shoot you they have bean bags they have rubber bullets they have other things but they also have live ammo so they will shoot you i've seen them shoot down on a yard man i'm telling you you don't know if it's you next you sit there man you still as you can believe but knowing the yard rules is when you go there you're gonna see a lot of things on a yard dude sharpening shanks along a concrete along a fence line in there leaning against the fence and they're sharpening the shank they're just sharpening and sharpening and sharpening what do you think you look at them and they don't want to know that you're even looking at them you're going to see drug deals go down you're going to see punks getting [ __ ] in the corner sometimes you're going to see crazy stuff go down on the yard but you got to know the yard rules where do you go who do you see you need something who's the who's kind of running the yard where the guard stationed on the yard you know there's usually the guards in the tower you can check them out you can't see but you can blind them but there might be guards on the yard there usually is you'll see them walk around you know something then you got to know you got to have that feel you got to know the yard rules if you want wreck and you sure want wreck believe me you want to get out of that hole when you're in that hole and you're waiting to get on the compound they call it you're going to want to get out fresh air get sun on that body telling you and you're going to want to connect with the right people and that's where you do it on the yard listen guys i don't want you in prison but if you got to go i want you to survive and no matter what it is be respectful of others in life and in prison just because you go to prison doesn't mean you respect people in fact you respect them more the dude you disrespect just might kill you all right ladies and gentlemen have a great day check out our merch below please sign up uh subscribe to our channel pass the word you know that always helps thanks for your support everybody i really mean it it means a lot have a great day everybody stay safe have a great one

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Length: 20min 45sec (1245 seconds)

Published: Tue May 12 2020