child, prison s perfect. they tell you when to get up. they tell you when to go to bed. they do your laundry for you, they cook your meals for you, tell you when to eat. they give you chores to do. if you re good, you get to go out and play in the park with the other kids. if you re bad, you go to your room. if you re really bad, they put you in a little special room. ronald brook feels his childhood was missing this kind of order and stability. in today s therapy session, ron brook is asked to talk about his marriage. a union, he claims, ended in betrayal. i married at too young of age, i was 22 21, and she was 16. much too young for either one of us, really. we had been married about a year when she told me that she
involved under lock and key until they can get to the bottom of the incident on the yard. as rumors swirl about what caused the riot, the counselors wonder whether brook s confession of his sexual crime is to blame. if the trust in the group had been breached, it would mean the end of the therapy program. my big concern is that it didn t come from this group and that s the part that i m trying to process, and i m going to feel a lot better when we find out, really, who started it as far as outing him into the yard. because that s very serious. coming up, the counselors learn the truth about the riot and get their first glimpse inside the hole, as members of the group confront the impact of their crimes.
these papers can be dangerous. prisoners with taboo crimes are often targets for violence. ronald brook may have something to hide but he s tired of running from the truth. what i usually do, i reach out down here and get my cases with my court papers in it and i said, you want to know who i am, there it is, dig. i ain t going to go for it. over the years, brook became more comfortable with admitting his crimes and trusted his cellmate with his story. when i first came to this prison in 1997, i moved in with a man named jonesy. and we lived together for nine years and never had any arguments, which is rare in prison. we were best friends. brook admitted details to the crime to jonesy that he hasn t told the group and jonesy took those secrets to the grave.
his heart started giving him problems a year ago last march. right here in this bed, it was about 2:00 in the morning, and he just fell back without a word, and i did everything i knew to try to resuscitate him. he just slipped away right here in my arms. we have no control over where we live or how long we live there. so it s not safe to become emotionally attached to anybody. when i lost him, i lost a lot. telling his cellmate the truth about his crime was risky, but tomorrow, he ll have to put it all on the line and tell his story to the group. during today s session, ronald brook will finally have to talk about the night he
how is it said, the guilty flee when no one pursues us? ever heard that? that s a fact. when you re guilty of something or you re on the run, you re running. even though nobody s chasing you. ron brook was comfortable in his new found domestic bliss, but he knew it wasn t built to last. a run-in with police marked an end to the fairytale. when they got me, it was the one time in five years that i had two i.d.s with me, two driver s licenses and i opened my wallet to get my driver s license out, and he saw the other one, and that s how i got caught. brook looked at this relationship as a turning point. i learned while i was with her that i could love a woman without her hurting me and without giving all of myself to her to the point where i was vulnerable.