Possibly the scariest men...I've ever seen on televison..

Whilst my research Ive taken to watching many prison documentries, I mean there is LOADS! The National Geographic Channel, Youtube and Channel 4 have many of them. Anyways I was watching a documentry on youtube called 'Lock-up Raw :Corcoran Extended stay' Anyways there was this rather scary bloke called Christian, Christian well 'was' a high ranking La eme member. If your wondering 'La eme' is a basically the mexican mafia. The mexican mafia is NO joke! Anyways he was interviewed about his 'crimes' He described how 'cut' up his cell mate. While casually sitting there and smiling away as if it was nothing.That's not the first person hes killed he currently serving life without parole. Anyways the next man I came across was called 'Mr X' , a former gang member serving life he can't be named for legal reasons.

'I like to stab people, it's a hobby'

Yup one of Mr X's infamous quotes.

God..im lazy!!

Mmm today I had a one on one with emily, I've relised im offfically lazy! I gotta alot of catching up to do an I've set myself some targets.
1. Primary drawings (a must)!
2. Channel 4 documentries on prison ( gotta wacth)!
3. TO DO WORK IN MA SKETCHBOOK ( A MUST) !

I've also decided to change my colour scheme as I feel using a bright colour scheme and having using tattoos, i feel it will look like something ed hardy has produced. The last thing I want is my collection to look like a 'Ed hardy rip off' ! So I've decided to look at something quite minamal, and here it is!

It's a start...

Well I just been collecting research on prisons, i've gained some primary that my wonderful friends have sent me through the mail, as we are millions of miles away! I asked them how they each described prison life they said
( A few quotes I've pulled out from there letters they have sent me)

'Lots of peeps getting killed and and gang wars. So now thats all screwed up! ne-wayz, let me tell you some and please dnt judge me of my actions, jus so you kno to better understand me when i got lock-up it went lock down fro sending this fu to the hospital, I got pick a free-world charge'
Frankie

'Prison, at least the one one I'm in, is a rough place. In the movies, there are always the extra dramatics, but in real prison, there is a certain degree of respect that is granted to one another. There is a code of ethics amongt convicts that is inviolable. The penalty for violating this code can be death.'
Robert

Some rather interstin books I've encountered...

Whilst Ive been researching Ive come across some interesting books. 'Maximum Security' by Karen Farrington and 'Dress behind bars' by Juilet Ash. It talks about prison culture, regimes and some rather interesting stories from disturbing inmates.. Anyways they are both a good read!

Oh no It's FMP timez...

Ok so ive decided for my for my fmp, im going to look at PRISONS! Yup prisons, well prison culture really. Anyways for my starting point, I've made some new friends!
Meet Robert, Shawn and Frankie! They are currently all incarnated in the american prison system and to get the whole idea of prison I decided to write to them to see what prison culture is really all about. The reason why I decided to pick american prisons is because they have the highest rate of people incarnated than any other country also, their sentences are harsh and system is institutionally corrupted!