Race Riot (A California Pelican Bay Prison Story) [Kindle Edition]

Glenn Langohr (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Review

"The story starts with a visually intense prison riot from the eyes of the main character, B.J, who is leaving California's hardest core prison, Pelican Bay, to enter another violent prison. From there, B.J gets into the politics of prison life as he tries to deal with problems between races and the prison staff and stay alive while searching for a chance to change his life." Jackie Smith U.S.C.

Product Description

The author, Glenn Langohr spent 10 years inside the most violent prisons in California on drug charges. He paints the culture into words and takes you on a journey into the belly of the beast with an authentic look at gang warfare behind bars.

Only for adults...

Inside this story you will find a horrific description of the deadly, 28 minute long blood bath, race war riot at Pelican Bay on a cold Febuary day in 2000...

A California Pelican Bay Prison Story-Volume 1
A penetrating look inside of one of California's most dangerous prisons.
B.J, a drug dealer serving time, struggling to hold on to truth and his faith in God, takes the reader on a never before seen, inside look at a California level 4 prison. The inner dynamics between prison guards, gang investigators and the Warden are on display along with the political climate between races with a war brewing between the Mexicans and Blacks. A piercing account of the process for gang validation into solitary confinement at Pelican Bay's SHU through the eyes of inmates struggling to survive gang wars, in prison drug debts, prison politics, rules and regulations, and ultimately power and control, while desperately trying to find a path for redemption along the way.

Next in the series- Lock Up Diaries- Drug Debts to see what happens in prison when dope is involved...

Then Vol 3 Gladiator to see Mexican Mafia hit man Bat in action, while B.J. deals with a potential race war...

Also, check out Roll Call and the sequel, Upon Release...

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Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 126 KB
• Publisher: LOCKDOWNPUBLISHING.COM (February 21, 2012)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B005G5YMTE
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #38,425 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #9 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Crime & Criminals > Penology
  • #30 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Crime & Criminals > Criminology
  • #36 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Crime & Criminals  > Penology

More About the Author

Author Bio- I'm an obsessive compulsive addict, in recovery, saved by God's Grace, who researched the U.S War on Drugs so deeply, I met and did business with Mexican Cartels, outlaw bikers and street gangs until the criminal justice system interrupted me. From prison, for 10 years I wrote every morning at 4 AM, before the politics and survival in a variety of California level 4 prisons took over. Upon my release from prison I married my dream girl ballerina Sanette, who plays Annette in the sequel to Roll Call, Upon Release. My vision is to help other prisoners write and publish their art and stories and God is blessing me in this direction daily with my Lock Up Diaries and other works. I use prisoner art for my book covers...

Glenn Langohr 949 498 2174 [e-mail] lockdownpubishing.com

Sequel To Roll Call: Upon Release from Pelican Bay Prison, B.J struggles not to look back at the Criminal Justice System that tried to kill him. Inspired to help prisoners turn their lives around through art, he tries to work for the church. Running into judgment, the church doesn't tell the shelter he lives at he was volunteering his time helping orphans and B.J is on the run again. Add a beautiful ballerina, a good cop squeezed out of the loop by overzealous detectives, a prison protest to help the voiceless, and the temptation to do a massive drug run from Mexico, and you have the perfect recipe for a Spiritual revolution, where compassion is missing, all leaving the reader wondering; who are the real criminals?

Make sure you check out Roll Call to see how Detective Pincher became a drug addict!

Make sure you check out A California Pelican Bay Prison Story-Race Riot and Lock Up Diaries-Drug Debts, to see what happens in prison when dope is involved!

Customer Reviews

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars extremely life-like, August 28, 2011

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This review is from: Race Riot (A California Pelican Bay Prison Story) (Kindle Edition)

The amazing details of prison life - code words that prisoners use, explanations of how they commuicate from cell to cell - really make you feel you have entered a different world, or like you are watching a movie about prison life. The story shows how race riots that can kill prisoners can be started for very small and seemingly unimportant reasons, and how violence permeates every aspect of prison life. A gripping read that will help you understand the inhumanity of the prison system and why violence within it is almost inevitable.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Breathlessly Raw, September 1, 2011

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Phillip Doran "author of The Reluctant Tuscan" (SoCal & Italy) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Race Riot (A California Pelican Bay Prison Story) (Kindle Edition)

A raw, breathless descent through the inner circle of the California Penal Hell. Fraught with detail that only someone who's been there could know.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A real eye opener, August 24, 2011

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Angela - See all my reviews

This review is from: Race Riot (A California Pelican Bay Prison Story) (Kindle Edition)

The author reveals the level of desperation inside a maximum security prison, where everyone becomes a warrior in the battle to survive.