Tales From the Joint

It's every man's worst nightmare: being removed from friends and family and confined to a world inhabited by rapists, armed robbers, gangsters and murderers. This is the story of a white, middle-class, college-educated flyboy-turned drug smuggler's stay inside a maximum-security prison in Florida. It captures the subtle emotional swings, fear, brutality and comedy of life behind bars.

"Being locked up is the male equivalent of having PMS. It's an emotional roller coaster, and you can never predict on a day-to-day basis where the scary parts of the ride are going to be. One day it might be a confrontation with a guard, some other time it might be a bad-news letter from home, or on another day it might be a hostile inmate not liking the way you looked at him..."