spot in the hamptons and is now in a considerably less desirable locale. disciplinary desegregation, more commonly known as the hole. the hole is a whole different story. this is the projects. i can t watch tv. i can t drink coffee. i can t play cards. down here kind of sucks. i kind of messed up a good thing. davis is awaiting sentencing for larceny, or stealing private property. it resulted after several mornings after he and his friend, shaquille washington, slept past the mandatory wakeup time. during the day they re not allowed to go under the covers. we have some that have been up
over and tore a hand-drawn picture of his wife off the wall. they re always constantly on the monitors when they go to the yard. they have cameras out there. also, we have what we call always under the gun. and if you can see upstairs, we have a correctional officer who s always has weapons up there. ready at all times in case an emergency arises. we do little puzzles, play cards, homemade chessboard. try to stay occupied. if you sit around and think, then you dwell on a million and one regrets. three times a week inmates get one hour of exercise in a row of wire cages. it s like being in a dog pound. teeny little dog run cage. it s better than nothing. getting sunlight. like a lizard, it takes a minute to get going. not all inmates are in ad seg for violence or contraband.
if you re like me, it s very important. got to have my coffee. first thing on the list, coffee. nothing else to do but sit around work, play cards, drink coffee. he does about, i d say, eight to ten cups a day. tough habit to keep up with, the coffee habit. but on the outside, mcnee and his brother share far more dangerous addictions. on average day, i could spend anywhere from $300, $500 to $1,000 a day. on what? heroin, cocaine. i lived the life of an addict to the fullest and i m embarrassed by it. drugs have had a hold on mcnee and bubanas since a young age and played a major role in their troubles with the law. when we re out there getting high, all we re thinking business the next high. scheming, plotting. what we ll do, how we re going do this, how we ll get that one. i m like jekyll and hyde when i m using when i m not using hfl
back to where it was before all this happened. yeah. if not back where it was, at least as i finish out this life with some normalcy. yeah. definitely. within the next week or so a transport van will take southernland to a state prison to serve his time. well, there s a saying to do the time, don t let the time do you. it s just a statement of go with the flow. you read, play cards, make the most of it. you re here. deal with it. it s hard, but until you do, you know, life is really tough, and for me with all the issues that i was having personally, i could be maybe in a different program that would be nicer than this, but this is still better than me
i can t watch tv. i can t drink coffee. i can t play cards. down here really sucks and i messed up a good thing. davis is awaiting sentencing for larceny or stealing personal property. his expulsion from the hamptons resulted after several mornings in which he and his friend shaquille washington slept past the mandatory 7:30 wake-up time. during the day, the inmates are not allowed to get under the covers. we ve had a problem with inmates staying up through the night because they ve slept all day and they interfere with other inmates and prevent them from going to sleep, making noise. we re the only ones who sleep in like that every day so he just got tired of it. jamal tends to do what shaquille does. they both act a little childish. they stick together quite a bit. i decided that day that one of them was going to move.