Lock Up Diaries- Drug Debts

by Glenn Langohr

Overview

As seen on LOCK UP- A depiction of life inside of prison and a look at the political landscape between races who are segregated by cell after being released from the Pelican Bay SHU in California. The amazing details of prison life - code words that prisoners use, explanations of how they communicate from cell to cell - really make you feel you have entered a different world.

A prison list with a cast of characters that include Mexican drug cartels, Southern California street gangs and Hell's Angels all fighting for their piece of the drug culture inside of California's most notorious and violent prison, Pelican Bay. This thriller follows B.J inside Pelican Bay prison where drug debts are getting out of hand and diplomacy fails. A visual panoramic view of the prison yard with interactions with Mexican Mafia inmates who try to run the yard while B.J struggles to keep the White race safe in this breathless decent into the California penal hell.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013485426
Publisher:	Lockdownpublishing
Publication date:	06/27/2012
Series:	Prison Killers Book 2 , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	965,895
File size:	46 KB

About the Author

I'm an obsessive compulsive addict in recovery, 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...Here is the review for my first work, Roll Call

Kirkus Discoveries, Nielsen Business Media



A harrowing, down-and-dirty depiction—sometimes reminiscent of Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic—of America’s war on drugs, by former dealer and California artist Langohr.

Locked up for a decade on drugs charges and immersed in both philosophical tomes and modern pulp thrillers, Langohr penned Roll Call, a light fictionalization of his troubled life. “I went from obsessively pacing my cell and wondering and worrying about how I was actually going to get my attorney to defend me, and how many years this sentence would bring,” writes Langohr in an afterword, “to realizing that if I find a way to write what’s in my head, I can find a way out of this hole I had put myself in!” The book’s hero is Benny “B.J.” Johnson, a kid who grows up in a troubled home. His parents are essentially good, but they fight often. Eventually, his mother escapes, departing in a “small car with over a hundred thousand miles on it and some clothes.” From there, B.J.’s descent is all but inevitable—he hangs out with the wrong crowd and starts dealing. But the author is not content to tell the story from only the protagonist’s perspective. Instead, he toggles the angle like a master director, taking in the stories of American lawmen, Mexican dealers, outlaw bikers, prison guards, pawn-shop dealers and a dude named El Diablo who says things like, “I have a master plan that I am willing to share with you.” Roll Call makes for exciting reading—gunplay.

Editorial Reviews

Glenn Langohr's Lock Up Diaries takes you inside of prison where the same problems exist like drug addictions and drug debts. I found out how these debts are dealt with amoung the different races. A penetrating look at what goes on between shot callers, or peace makers, depending on the vantage point, and a real look inside of California' hardest core prisons.

N/A - Gloria Carter ( Circle of Hope )

Lock Up Diaries takes you inside of the California prison system where inmates are segregated by race. A piercing look inside of prison where violence seems to be what the guards want, where they can get paid time and a half for riots and instigating them becomes normal. B.J a drug criminal takes the readers on a view never before seen, where interaction with the warden, gang investigators and counselors actually promote gang allegience! Wow!

N/A - Don South ( O.C. Weekly )

The Lock Up Diaries is a harrowing account of what it is like in California's most hellacious prison. The vivid characters, the pace, the look at how drug debts affect the political landscape, are entertaining to say the least.

N/A - Jeniffer Flowers