My Lost Decade, Part 3 My introduction to the Penn

The screams from the gang rapes will haunt me forever My introduction into the world of the California State prison system was an education that I will never forget.   That education came at the reception centre in Chino.  Without doubt one of the most notorious yards in all the California prison system.   Its way past horrible, it’s old, all the buildings are falling apart, leaking roofs more broken windows than fixed ones, with enough black mould in each building to kill a whole town never mind the inmates in that building. The first thing you learn is that the violence you witnessed at country jail is nothing in comparison to the Penn (Penitentiary).  You’re with the “big boys” now.  These are some of the most violent criminals in all of America, many are just outright crazy.