transferred to another prison where the couple was allowed to marry. that resulted in the lifting of their visitation ban. it actually seemed like an authentic deal to me. they truly seemed to love each other, and according to what i heard from paula, everything is going really well and she s just waiting for him to be released. a copy of the marriage license. how does that make you feel? good. and although his past first led us to think scritchfield s story would be about his penchant for violence, we discovered that at least for now it was a love story. one best summed up in this letter to paula. i know god works in mysterious ways, for him to grant me this second shot of love has to be the truest gift a man like me could ever receive, especially being that i m just an old knucklehead, that i may not even deserve this chance. i do not have a lot to give you but what i do have is truly mine and i will give it to you until the day god takes breath from my body. he s a ver
his relationship with kenyatta, and then i realized he just took it in stride, almost seemed pleased and proud about the situation, and then just kept going. if someone walks up here and calls him your boyfriend or girlfriend or something like that, how do you react? it wouldn t matter. i don t react on stupidity. tommy, would you two be friends on the street? yeah. yeah. his homosexuality is not a factor? no. i don t look at individuals by what they do or what they is or what they done did. i mean, we re all humans. through all my relationships that i ve been with with guys, he s been tight, he s been right there supportive of me. we ve been close. real tight. real friends. partners. would you say you love him? as a friend, yeah. normally, mcmillen and tunstall live in the dorms together, but during our stay at holman they were separated. mcmillen had requested to be put in administrative segregation. he had had an operation recently when we encountered
but as far as if he do get a relationship with anybody, then i know what type of individual he is, and he don t get in no trouble, he don t bother nobody then nobody ain t got no business putting their hands on him. i get offensive like that. having a relationship with gay men or straight men here? straight. straight guys? yeah. they gay too, though. actually, in their mind they re just gay for that minute. after it s over with, they ain t gay no more. but wait till the next time, then they re gay again for another minute. as for their future, both men were serving life sentences. though tunstall would someday qualify for parole, mcmillen had life without. i know i m going back to the free world one day. so you know, the only thing i can do is make the best out of my situation. so i kick it around individuals with minds on the street. that way i won t fall victim to whatever is going on inside these walls.
because i like cheese curls. when is the last time you had a cheese curl? last night. by all appearances, tommy cheese curl tunstall, serving life for robbery, was one of holman s most popular inmates. tommy was an interesting inmate to interview, actually, because he seemed very calm and confident. quietly confident. bring your ass on. [ bleep ]. more often than not, when we would start interviewing tommy, inmates would start yelling things at him. you ve got to tell me what the deal is with you. everybody you could run for president in here. i guess i get along with everybody. but tunstall chooses to spend much of his time with just one man, kenyatta mcmillen, who is serving life without parole for murder. i love cheese because he always been there for me, no
normally, mcmillen and tunstall live in the dorms together, but during our stay at holman they were separated. mcmillen had requested to be put in administrative segregation. he had had an operation recently when we encountered him, and he was having i guess a lover s quarrel with his current boyfriend, and because he was afraid it might escalate into something violent, he had himself locked up. the person that i was with, we was on the verge of separating, but they didn t want to, and it got to the point where it started being threats made and kenyatta had indicated to us that he had been involved with a number of men at the prison romantically. he seemed to rely more and more on tommy as a big brother figure. i mean, he got to make his own decisions, but now before he do any of that he ll ask what i think about it. and i ll give my opinions. and when we sit down and agree upon it, it s going to be whether he want to deal with the dude or he don t. as simple as that.