How To Survive Life In Maximum Security Prison Ep10

this is Larry Lawton and he's an ex jewel thief Larry's a former career criminal once considered the biggest jewel thief in the United States he raps a shank here and he goes down the t2 trying to stab people now we see him coming okay people I'm back Larry Lawton here summarizing my book gangster Redemption it's been a great run so far and I think we're gonna keep going thanks for all the subscribers I hope more people keep subscribing and really enjoying this content the last chapter was when I went through Atlanta and when I went on Con Air I went through the plane and I went into Oklahoma City which the big prisoner at the airport in Oklahoma well when you go to Atlanta so here I am heading to Atlanta and as you're on the plane you actually get in the back you know you're in the plane you're just in your handcuffs you're in your shackles old [ __ ] they have to make him do and it's all about security they have to do it I get why they have to do it too you can't have an incident in the air happen it would be may hand so anyway you're up there and when you land they land at Atlanta Airport and they go off to a side or an area where there's no other planes no other people I don't know if it's a cargo area or something like that at Atlanta Airport and so now you're sitting on the plane and that the back of the plane opens up up comes officials and guards big big black burly guys stop screaming names your name and your number then they said Lawton five two two two four zero zero four you know you get up you're chef on down you got a hobble down these stairs it's in the wintertime you're freezing you have no clothes no uh it's not like you're sitting there you get zero coat you could freeze you could stand out in front now they have buses out there at the airport now you go into various facilities and and and either bus into Atlanta or go onto Jessup or go into Edgefield South Carolina or wherever you're going to be going oh or wherever prison could be going even pensacola which is a camp well they have all the buses out there so you get out off the plane and the plane is surrounded by guards with shotguns literally this you see around you is old this is this is the real deal so anyway here you are you hobble up and they tell you what bus you come off they search you again Pat you down make sure you don't have anything on you get to whatever you go and go to bus 3 bus 2 they had a clipboard bus whatever you go out and you're sitting in front of that bus standing just stand there wait and the line is building and until that whole plane is empty or whatever they're gonna take off that plane at that dime you're just standing there then they shuffle you again shuffle you on the bus make sure you go on the right facility so here we are on the bus we're heading to Atlanta now I'll never forget we go by the zoo boy talking about ironic exude the Atlanta zoo is right next to the federal penitentiary you at USP Atlanta again you go into your spirit lanta and when we're going up you see 40-foot walls around the whole entire prison 40-foot wall the walls are so that they're 3 feet thick 40 feet high and 20 feet underground and there's gun towers all around them it specifically occasions and when Atlanta was built in 1903 the USP Atlanta was building it was the most poured concrete ever in the world at that time poured concrete so it was amazing project you could look it up its USP Atlanta in 1903 so here you go in now you go down you don't really know what's going on you're on the bus and you go into it that's a big big garage door and it opens up you pull in and you hear the door come down close it's okay now you get off the bus guards again they call your name getting off the bus now you get into this area and the first thing they say is tighten up tighten up nuts to butts nuts to butts and you got to get in an elevator in Atlanta you get into an elevator so they pack about 15 inmates at a time they push you into this elevator you're all in the elevator one or two guards are in there and they go up and you have to go up and you go up into Atlanta and you go up to the receiving and discharge so again they take your out of the elevator they start putting you in cells so as you go into these cells there's gonna be 50 guys 80 guys depending on how many is going to wherever in that place now some of those people are going what do they call the Atlanta hold over Lana hold over is another facility where they just hold you over for a week or two until you get back on the bus and plane and go whatever destination you're going it's another holdover they call it well some guys like me we're going on the yard or going into USP Atlanta at this time so here they bring us down we're on to USP Atlanta and we go in they process us well when you go into a penitentiary you don't just okay let's go Lord and here's your cell go go have fun go meet people that doesn't happen like that you got to go in the hole or shoe special housing unit obviously all the convicts and people been in prison they know it as the hole so you they send you to shoot they send you to the hole and you have to go to the hole what they call four Captains review every time high and all prisons I don't know about the lows I've never been although I've only been to mediums and highs you have to go what they call captain's review and what that is for is the captain of a prison the captain is the head of security of the whole prison then they have lieutenants and guards now they also have a warden who's what they call administration he's the total boss that whole prison then they have an associate warden then they have what they call case managers then they have counselors and they even have case managers councils and a unit manager so it owes you that you're what they call your unit team so anyway in Atlanta so now you get shuffled cells in the receiving and discharge or in data code and then you're talking to other inmates and you know hey where you going I'm staying here oh man you're going to Lana oh man I'm only going here or whatever you you know your brain is functioning so different you thinking what the first time going to Atlanta I got a deal with this [ __ ] [ __ ] here who's just worried about going to a camp for a year and a half I'm gonna be fighting for my life I know it I'm in a maximum-security prison in Atlanta we had 2000 inmates 800 I think 880 had life sentences never getting out they have letters at school another 450 find a lover get a punk literally the get married go to you liqueur which is the work environment in prison and as they go on their way the other two on then they have 200 psychopath Psychopaths they chase punks drugs try to escape literally Psychopaths I don't want them living next to you I don't want them living next to me my mom my aunts brothers I don't want him living next to anybody they're really psychopaths they don't belong to be out of prison so anybody who says all people you know what they're our psycho pets in there so anyway they telling me I got to go to Atlanta okay so now I'm in that thing then they send you to the hole you know you literally go to the hole they give you a roll they call it and in the role as a as a if you want to call it a blanket a sheet a little toothbrush and a little toothpaste thing literally that's it Omega bar soap those little bars of soap and you take your roll and you're going into the into the prison and now they take certain inmates they take to hold over and the other inmates like myself they're taking us to the hole and now you go to the hole awaiting captain's review you don't want to be a jerk-off you don't want to be an [ __ ] and tough guy at this time because it you can be in captain's review for a week ten days two weeks a month or forever literally the captain has to release you to the yard the reason they do that is because you might have what they call a separate isse a separate esis if you have co-defendants on your case and you ratted you can't be in the same prison as that you'll kill them or if you had a fight another prison with someone and they what they call they'll put a separate TESE in your jacket and if that inmate is on that yard they won't put you on that yard if you're a gang member if you're a Norteno and your beef with the saute knows which is the southern Mexicans it's the northern Mexicans they won't put you on the same yard because they know that could be stabbings different gangs are fighting so they know that and they can keep them separated in different areas of course they always that up and that's how people get killed and it's quite common that way so anyway they put me in there and the first thing I know is they stick me in a Cell and I just was on a plane for hours on end I mean probably 16 hours first thing I got to do is go to the bathroom got it man you just got it I'm int they threw me in the hole I'm waiting for captain's review and I have a cellie so as I have this cellie it's like you know do you trust them is he an [ __ ] already cuz you don't know you just met this guy minutes ago so the guy was laying on the bunk and I Somalia used the bathroom turn around and now his head is at the other end the bunk is this way the toilets here you literally sit you can touch his hand you touch his feet if you want you can literally touch his feet right there so anyway he turns his head towards the wall and you use the bathroom yes man you gotta use the bathroom whatever you keep flushing and that's a big thing in prison to get the smell out you know that they have the toilets with suction oh I literally cut up a mattress and put a mattress in a toilet and sucked the mattress down it's not it that's not a lie I've actually done that we're gonna get into that in another prison when I was really getting screwed over so anyway I'm in Atlanta the celery was alright I didn't feel so threatened I'm pretty intimidating myself and I didn't feel threatened and I went to the bathroom we saw rapping and talking and so here I have to go on the yard now I get my captain's review it was about ten days maybe two weeks and I get cleared to go to the yard the captain says you have any separate eat you have any co defense no do you are you in fear for your life on this yard if you say yes I'm scared to go into this prison they're not gonna let you go in the yard they need to keep you in the hole figure out what to do with you you might go to another prison and they do the same thing I start transferring your you could be in this state for a year they don't know what to do at you and I'm not gonna do that anyway so here you are you go say no I have no separate isse I'm not in fear for my life I have no beefs with any gang they sign here they go okay Lawton I'll never forget they say Lawton you're an a.1 okay so I love it the day they the captain says to me goes pack up you know go pack up pack up what the [ __ ] I got an African sheet and head a gray if you want to call it a blanket really no blanket cuz in Atlanta the cells you know let me tell you how [ __ ] up it is it's built in 1903 sort of rats and mice that would come under your door it was a scum hole of scum holes the windows to have windows this wide you know to look out and they fogged up windows but even Atlanta they would be broken so in the wintertime when it's 20 degrees out that's an open window there you're literally freezing just laying down screaming can I get another blanket can I get another blanket you're literally freezing and in the summertime it's a hundred degrees out and you're litter everybody you just walk around naked or in your boxer shorts or whatever it is because you're sweating to death you know your underwear will be drenched wet you can literally wring them out so anyway captain gives me review says packed up yeah where am I going and I ended up I'm assigned to a one so me and about six inmates we head out and we're going down now in Atlanta it's an old prison and they we come up through receiving discharge and as a like the kitchen area back in the old time without a kitchen you'd see the pigeons that pigeons in a tower is really an old old place so there's also a long corridor and you got to come down this long corridor and you got a pass Charlie house which Charlie house was the hole in Atlanta as well it's another hole they had two holes in Atlanta so Charlie houses a hole that was a oh it's been there forever and it's the old time had five tiers and had bars literally bars just like the old day no doors this time those cells had bars that was a whole Charlie house and that's where Al Capone's cell was yes the famous Al Capone was in there in the 30s and he was in Charlie house that's where his cell was in it actually one time I was in the hole in Atlanta and I was two cells from Al Capone's cell in Charlie house so anyway I'm assigned to a one so you get in and you know you anybody tells you they're not nervous or there's so bad asses all both you don't know what to expect and you're kind of I can't say scared but you're you're apprehensive you know you know you're on edge you're nervous so you walk in and the place is quiet it gets quiet when all the new fish come in or inmates fish whatever you want to call them they come in now they there you have to bring big walked in with a gardening the guard has a guard stand where they stand and they'll come in and they'll come now in Atlanta it's not like other prisons they don't assign you a cell you got to find your own cell it was go find your own cell so I walk in and you're looking around you want to talk about being a white guy you know I tell people like I said it's not a piece of prejudice in me but I know what it's like to be a minority because in Atlanta it is 15 percent white 15 percent white people after that is African American and it's Hispanic and it's even if Chinese gangs but it's 15 percent white so you walk in and a guy never forget Lee Sheryl Lee Sheryl comes up and say goes hey wait you're from it's the first question I was asked where you're from that's in New York and you start rapping and they trying to get a feel of you and the guy says you know what you get and I said I had 4:12 meaning I got four 12-year sentence is running concurrent so it's 4:12 and we start talking and we started kind of clicking and he you said okay you're gonna sell with me we go down to the guard shack the guard is told hey Lawtons gonna sell with Sheryl that's how it's done in the USP and those penitentiaries in back in those days 97 98 you you got your own cell they didn't assign you a cell so Lisa okay you'll be my cellie li was in prison for killing a guy with an axe handle on Pensacola Air Force Base in a robbery since Pensacola was a federal institution he ended up getting charged federally and Lee was a great cellie a stand-up guy wanted to do his time we party together that a lot again there's gonna be more drugs in prison and his on the street I love that one uh people say what do you mean not amount of drugs but it's easier to get any drug you want in prison you can get heroin coke meths acid I did the best asset in my life in USP Atlanta so I get myself and now everybody's pretty cool people are talking to you you know he's starting a legal is hey man come meet Ian come meet this guy come meet this guy and you just wrap it with each other you're rapping talking where you from this and they're getting a feel you you're a cool guy you know and obviously there's a lot of sharks and snakes and we'll talk about those later but I kind of know the thing I'm a street guy and they see that and so all suddenly gives me a toothbrush and he says you're cool and stuff on it my first question Ali was hey do you know Vick arena is and Lee goes yeah well Victorino was the boss of the Colombo crime family actually he Persico was the boss of a family Vick was trying to take it over ended up getting three life sentences for murders he was a mob boss he was a he was assigned to be the temporary boss but he tried to take over so I I got to know Vic very well tell you how it but I had a letter suitcase from Jerry chili Jerry chili gave me a note after I met Jerry chili and Farrington in New Jersey and he knew who I was and we talked and Jerry gave a note I didn't even read it and I suitcase that he said give this to Vic when you get to Atlanta when a new way you were going to Lana you're going through the hold over give this to someone going to Atlanta I was going to Atlanta so I ended up taking a note a kite they call it also and I suitcase this kite the whole way and I that are bringing it to Atlanta tea to go mix so I asked listen do you know Vic and he goes yeah Victorina he goes yeah he's in D house but he's on the yard he always goes on the yard he's always there at lunchtime he's always Garret the two two three o'clock move I said okay so my goal was to get to Victorina and give him this kite you know so next media like an I want to get out too I mean you got to remember I was just in Air Transport at FTC Oklahoma I was all over and being all over I didn't get any sunlight I mean literally I'm in holes I'm in holdovers I'm on transports I was in the holdover before it get sense you know you're in there for a month your wife you talking about a white boy so you're white so you want Sun you want fresh air I want that anyway but I want to go see Vic so I had the note I got it out ready to go you can carry a note around they don't know what it is they don't know even all have a piece of paper on you and so I go to the yard and I said hey Vic arena my name is Larry I got a kite from you from from Jerry chilly it's all okay so cool and he shakes my hand nice guy and he takes the kite and he reads the kite little did I notice now he starts talking to me we're apt for an hour and he says meet me on the yard at six o'clock tonight that's what he said I'm never forgetting meeting you in the yard at six o'clock tonight and I do I go back say goodbye little do I know Vic goes make some phone calls and finds out I'm a stand-up guy I wasn't a rat the guy's a good convict the guys did real deal I go out on the yard at six o'clock at night in Atlanta I'll never forget this is in 1997 and Vic Arena has a bag of sneakers toothpaste toothbrush soups ramen noodle soups a cup all the stuff shower shoes is a big deal in prison so this Shack because you don't want to be in the shower shoes the guys can come all over the place and everything that goes on in prisons so you get shower shoes and sneakers I got ramen noodle soup so I got toothpaste toothbrush deodorant got all the necessities you need and put a cup like a coffee cup coffee all the stuff I need fit gave me it was a big bag I'll never forget they have like in orders netted bags and it's a commissary bag that's what they call them and Vic gives me the commissary bag and says hey laughs I'm gonna introduce you around who does he introduced me to your juicers mean Little Nicky Scarfo anybody ever heard of him Nicky Scarfo was the mob boss from Philadelphia crazy I used to walk the track with Nicky Nicky was he killed 25 or 30 guys he killed a federal judge he used to tell me Larry I'm gonna beat my case I know I could beat it I'm thinking this guy's really crazy you think you're getting out of prison when you kill the federal judge ain't no chance you're getting out of prison anyway I used to walk with Nicky I used to walk the track so he introduced me Nicky introduced me Vic Amuso Victor Musso was the boss of the Lucchese crime family he still is to this day he's in prison with a life sentence Victor Musso is the boss'll casing so he introduces me to Vic and you know we all talking now I'm I'm a good guy I'm connected with the mob these guys I'm accepted so victory in a Nicky paddy Amato which was Vic's underboss was in the same prison and matter of fact I got really close to patty patty and I used to listen to Sinatra on the yard and we should listen to Frank Sinatra every every other Saturday or Sunday from 2:00 to 4:00 that Atlanta had great radio stations the only good thing about Atlanta it had good radio stations so Atlanta because you're in a city and we you know they gave me Vic game your radio they give you a transistor radio just think about that today we're in 2020 and well back then it was a transistor radio were you getting the channels and believe it or not that is gold in prison so I had the headphones and I'm Vic and Patty Amato and I would listen to Sinatra every two to four every single side he was Sunday and it was just it was a getaway he got away my fragmented acid there mango dump and literally left the prison talking about a while but I got to meet all these guys and they were good guys so here I am in Atlanta and starting to get to know the prison it's pretty cool I'm knowing the guys in my unit which is cool and I'll get into it in the next chapter probably about making wine and the drugs and everything else we did but I'm in here so I'm new to the prison and they got a warden called Willie Scott Willie Scott was known throughout the Federal Bureau of prison that home Big Willie Willie Scott was what they call a troubleshooting warden a troubleshooting warden is a warden that is transferred around the Bo P Bureau of Prisons to troubled prisons prisons with riots prisons that are that have mega disciplinary gang issues Willie Scott would bypass the region and go right to Washington Willie Willie Scott was a warden that was appointed by Washington and had more power than the region so if Willie Scott said put him on a bus you would literally be taken from where he said that you would be put in a hole and that night you would be on a bus with no property and you will be out of that prison and on a plane and we're too knows you don't even know it nobody knows where you're going so you're gone I mean they'll shut your phone off it's amazing the power he had it's called Willie Scott boy what a big big black guy or a prick so listen so funny story we're on the yard and I'm new to the prison and I'm getting to know the guys I'm there about two weeks and every lunchtime all the officials in the prison the ward and associate wards the counselors the case managers the lieutenant's they're in the chow hall and they're they say they're there so if you have problems you can go up to them because you want to go up to these people when there's a lot of people around so they know you're not ratting you're not going on a door and knocking on some warden's door like who the [ __ ] is long morning that guy why would Lawton be going to the warden's door that don't happen in prison but they're all at the lunch place area so you can go up to him and say listen you got a problem you can you can bring an inmate with you and you got a convict a friend of yours and then you walk up and say you know this is my issue you know I'm supposed to be transferred I didn't get it what's going on what you counsel whoever it is so we're sitting at the Chow Atlanta and food sucked we're talking about we had meat from Desert Storm Desert Storm was in 1992 this is 1997 and then 98 we had me that the boxes said Desert Storm me I'm not kidding you it the worst I almost chipped my tooth I did chip a tooth but I talk about all dumb they're worse because it's the bone it's cut right from close to the bone the chopping I quit eating meat for a whole year in Atlanta it so bad the food would so anyway here we are we're in Atlanta and my friend said to me listen man go to Ward and Scott I don't know where Scott from any I'm new they said man go to the ward tell them you know how bad the food is maybe it'll help maybe we can get better food you know you're new and you could just say hey I came from another prison you know hey warden could we make better food whatever so little oh I know they set me up if funny but set me up I go up I said sure I go up through one and say warden to speak ears yeah go hey warden you know the food here is pretty bad I mean you know I came from other plate the food is real bad he goes oh really hold on hold on cuz lieutenant cause lieutenant over and he goes put him in a hole I'm like what the [ __ ] put him in no just like that put him at all oh my what the [ __ ] I turn around I look these [ __ ] I laugh and behind me and I'm I'm like I I mean I felt like an ass but I'm going to hold you know you think I'm going through the hole I just asked if the food was all right can we get better food the food was terrible think the wood throws me at home and go in the hole never forget Farley another big black a great guy he was my counselor so Farley was a good dude and he he really like he actually let us make wine you make wine by putting you know fruit and you put water in the fruit or juices and you put all that and you put it in a bag and you ferment it with yeast here's the lettuce put it in the L of in Atlanta used to actually let us put it there and then once a week we'd go and get a whole big bag 15 gallons of wine we used to make 30 gallons of wine in Atlanta but that's another story for for later so anyway follies my counselor comes to the doors look what are you doing in here you just got here I said if gonna ask the ward he starts later he goes I go this place is crazy powerful can you put me in a hole I'm going crazy I was never one of these dudes to lay down and he's freaking like he goes law just relax I'll get you out of here but relax and I'm like where am I at this is in place is crazy I'm in the hole for asking if the food get hurt on the food shop anyway he gets me out three weeks later and I start getting into knowing the prison and and knowing about the prison and it was pretty good prison so here we are and so Willie Scott I'm on the prison and I'm learning how crazy people can get in this prison we got a guy in prison Ozzie he goes crazy this is the kind of inmate you do Ozzie goes literally nuts he ties a knife to this hand he raps with tape a shank this long to this hand he wraps a shank here and he goes down the t2 trying to stab people now we see him coming you get out of the way I mean he's just trying to stab people he went crazy the guy literally went crazy I'll never forget it was funny for us you know the guards have come to run and scream and you know lockdown lockdown tonight we're waiting we're watching what's happening the guards are coming in they're running in there coming up the thing and Aziz at the end of the tear on the second level on the tear yeah I was on a1 so it was the second level and Ozzie standing it with these knives and they're screaming him drop the knives drop the knife and drop the knife they're taped to his hands would have dropped the knives they end up macing him and they end up getting him down he didn't hurt anybody he stabbed a couple of people but they were alright so anyway I mean those are kind of crazy people you would deal with in Atlanta people who just lose it and you know you could never ever let your guard down in Atlanta I never ever ever in moat in a prison the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons maximum-security I never ever slept past six o'clock in the morning ever I would get up and put my boots and my sneakers on you know what do you mean how do you know who you pissed off the night before you might have been walking down the tear you're looking at t in cell you don't do that but AG I think she looked in a cell and you see a guy [ __ ] another guy or you see a guy banging heroin you see a guy hiding his heroin and he's thinking off Laurens gonna get my [ __ ] Laurens want to steal my heroin or Lawtons gonna do something you don't want anything to do with anything but he's already psycho so what is he gonna do what do you think he's gonna get you he's gonna get you when you're sleeping so the minute the doors open in prison they call when the doors crack you can put your boots on and you're ready to go I watched too many people not be ready in prison there's another place in prison when you go to a shower you go with a buddy if one of you guys out there were my cellie or my friend in prison if you we had to go to shall we both go together not to go together as men you would go in and wait out front I would wait out front and I'd wait there and you'd go take your shower you got your boots on and if I saw three guys coming towards us very intimidating maybe gang where I was something's gonna happen I bang on the wall and you put your boots on your dick swinging can you get your shame cuz you got your shank with you and you're ready to fight i watch the person not know that in prison and they stabbed him in the shower he goes down and blood went down the whole [ __ ] tear to hold here they killed him what are you gonna do in the shower you have nothing you're naked you're you gotta know if you don't have your shank you know get your boots you don't have a buddy those are the little things you got to know in maximum-security prisons it's not a joke place it's not a place where you can let your guard down never forget when I was in Atlanta I never ever felt comfortable ever it was just one of those places that you can and it's you know you see in Atlanta it's just I mean it's crazy and I'll get more into how we made wine and how drugs come in and all that we're gonna do a lot of videos like that but I hope you got an idea that's conduct was chapter 9 the worst little war if you were snitch the rat snitches done I watch them get thrown off tears stabbed beaten half to death killed by Warsaw one guy gets stabbed 30 times 30 times it was stabbed so that I saw in prison will blow your way and Atlanta was the worst of the worst most violent prison eras most people were heavy-duty sentences and I survived it and I actually survived it so that that was chapter nine guys so we're gonna go to chapter 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Published: Sun Jan 05 2020