The day John Gotti took a beatdown in prison

[imp]

Do you still visit your other mate thats serving 25 years for something he never done?

What type of conversation do you both have or what type of things do you tell his loved ones?

[greynotsoold]

I knew a guy 20 years ago- he since od'd on heroin and died- that was a legend in his neighborhood. He was 50 at the time and had been from his neighborhood since he was 12, and he'd done about 30 years of that time in the pen, two terms for 2nd degree murder. He had done one of them; his homeboy had done the other.
He said, joking, that he would have told on his homeboy, except that his homeboy was simultaneously doing time for a murder he hadn't committed, but that my friend had. So it all worked out.

[imp]

I knew a guy 20 years ago- he since od'd on heroin and died- that was a legend in his neighborhood. He was 50 at the time and had been from his neighborhood since he was 12, and he'd done about 30 years of that time in the pen, two terms for 2nd degree murder. He had done one of them; his homeboy had done the other.
He said, joking, that he would have told on his homeboy, except that his homeboy was simultaneously doing time for a murder he hadn't committed, but that my friend had. So it all worked out.

Thats a sad story.
Nothing worked out for either of them.
Working out (for them) would be getting away with it sitting on a beach in thailand.
Thanks anyway.

[FinitoElDinamita]

Do you still visit your other mate thats serving 25 years for something he never done?

What type of conversation do you both have or what type of things do you tell his loved ones?

Ive been sending money and visiting him every other month for the past 12 years.. at first we talked a lot but as years go by, I find myself having less and less things to talk about. Thats the sad part.. im not going to talk about the girls I fucked or the places ive been to cuz its only going to make him feel like shit. We usually talk about family and how much fun we had back in high school.

I used to act as the second son to his mom but she passed away of heart attack away few years after her son got incarcerated.. it was probably from stress..

He has two younger sisters who are close to my sister so ive been watching over them like my own...

[greynotsoold]

Do you still visit your other mate thats serving 25 years for something he never done?

What type of conversation do you both have or what type of things do you tell his loved ones?

Ive been sending money and visiting him every other month for the past 12 years.. at first we talked a lot but as years go by, I find myself having less and less things to talk about. Thats the sad part.. im not going to talk about the girls I fucked or the places ive been to cuz its only going to make him feel like shit. We usually talk about family and how much fun we had back in high school.

I used to act as the second son to his mom but she passed away of heart attack away few years after her son got incarcerated.. it was probably from stress..

He has two younger sisters who are close to my sister so ive been watching over them like my own...

I have a friend that is doing a 50-life term. He has been charged with, and beat, two attempted murder cases since he has been down. He has done 7 in the SHU...
I send him packages every quarter, we talk every week. He likes hearing what is going on. Your friend might like hearing about life outside- doing 25 he has a chance at getting out, right? My friend might be different, he'd already done 22 years before he caught this case in 99.

[Violent Demise]

Do you still visit your other mate thats serving 25 years for something he never done?

What type of conversation do you both have or what type of things do you tell his loved ones?

Ive been sending money and visiting him every other month for the past 12 years.. at first we talked a lot but as years go by, I find myself having less and less things to talk about. Thats the sad part.. im not going to talk about the girls I fucked or the places ive been to cuz its only going to make him feel like shit. We usually talk about family and how much fun we had back in high school.

I used to act as the second son to his mom but she passed away of heart attack away few years after her son got incarcerated.. it was probably from stress..

He has two younger sisters who are close to my sister so ive been watching over them like my own...

I have a friend that is doing a 50-life term. He has been charged with, and beat, two attempted murder cases since he has been down. He has done 7 in the SHU...
I send him packages every quarter, we talk every week. He likes hearing what is going on. Your friend might like hearing about life outside- doing 25 he has a chance at getting out, right? My friend might be different, he'd already done 22 years before he caught this case in 99.

That's shit is rough. I have a cousin who is about 6 years younger than me. As a kid I hung out with my other cousins. His brothers. He was too young. When one of his brother got killed my aunt moved away from the area. I would see him on occasion but eventually lost contact with him. Fast forward a couple of years. I'm at wayside (Pitchers Detention Center) in Super Max on a bullshit sales charge that ended up getting tossed out. I'm getting back to wayside from court. I get off the bus and put in the holding tank with about 20 fools. Before going in they scanned your wrist ban. I hear the name Lorenzo Lopez and recognize it. I look up and see my cousin. He looked different but it was him. We hug, sit and start talking. I asked him what's up? What's his situation? He looks away and says he lost. Lost what? His trial. He had just come back from sentencing. It's bad. How bad? 114 years bad. I didn't even know what the fuck to say to him. 22 years old and already washed up. What the fuck is there to even say? He said it like it was no big deal. But I could see it in his eyes. Pure sorrow.

[imp]

Do you still visit your other mate thats serving 25 years for something he never done?

What type of conversation do you both have or what type of things do you tell his loved ones?

Ive been sending money and visiting him every other month for the past 12 years.. at first we talked a lot but as years go by, I find myself having less and less things to talk about. Thats the sad part.. im not going to talk about the girls I fucked or the places ive been to cuz its only going to make him feel like shit. We usually talk about family and how much fun we had back in high school.

I used to act as the second son to his mom but she passed away of heart attack away few years after her son got incarcerated.. it was probably from stress..

He has two younger sisters who are close to my sister so ive been watching over them like my own...

Dont you feel guilty?

Be honest.

What is the point of it all.

Im expecting the reply to be:-
"Imp, you wasnt raised in the streets, you dont know how the game goes!"

The thing is, no one knows what anyone has went through but ask a hundred people if they want to be doing 23hr lockdown for 25 years for something he or she didnt do the answers obvious.

Im not trying to wind you up im just trying to understand why you bother visiting and sending him money when you could have done something at the time.