Hombre del Silencio: The Prison Diary of Ramon Labanino Part 11: UNICOR; Commissary; Telephone; The Prison School; The Library; Art in Prison; We Won the Appeal

UNICOR UNICOR is a company that hires inmates to work inside the prison, it is the exquisite business of the millionaires of the 21st century, the slave labor of the century. Every prison has a UNICOR factory. Companies, including military companies, use prisons to make uniforms and other items. If they produce it outside they … Continue reading Hombre del Silencio: The Prison Diary of Ramon Labanino Part 11: UNICOR; Commissary; Telephone; The Prison School; The Library; Art in Prison; We Won the Appeal

Hombre del Silencio: The Prison Diary of Ramon Labanino Part 10: Hurtado Camacho; The Yoruba Prison; Ariel Hernandez; Pedro Pagés; Lazaro Veliz; Diosdado Suárez, the Guajiro; Lockdowns; The typewriter; The shakedowns

Hurtado Camacho This episode has to do with Hurtado Camacho, my personal friend. His story is a peculiar case. Hurtado was imprisoned as a young man in Cuba. He was quite mischievous, he specialized in stealing from the rooftops, he was imprisoned at the age of eighteen during the Mariel period, when some inmates decided … Continue reading Hombre del Silencio: The Prison Diary of Ramon Labanino Part 10: Hurtado Camacho; The Yoruba Prison; Ariel Hernandez; Pedro Pagés; Lazaro Veliz; Diosdado Suárez, the Guajiro; Lockdowns; The typewriter; The shakedowns

High, medium, and low security prisons The outside part of the cell is what is called the yard or the camp out. It is the open area where you can sunbathe and walk around the yard, and it includes all the outside area, where you can move from one place to another, go from the … Continue reading Hombre del Silencio: The Prison Diary of Ramon Labanino Part 8: High, medium, and low security prisons; The different prisons I have been in; Provocations; Cook for hire; The white priest; Friday, May 30, 2003; Friday, June 6, 2003; Saturday, June 7, 2003

Crazy American Indian One day a new inmate arrived, an American Indian. He was a monster, huge, much taller than me, weighed almost five hundred pounds, strong and very corpulent. He entered the cell at almost twelve o'clock at night and the guard said to me: Medina, whether you want him to sleep with you … Continue reading Hombre del Silencio: The Prison Diary of Ramon Labanino [one of the Cuban 5 heroes] Part 5: Crazy American Indian; Drug Trafficking; The Diary; The Chess Game; The First Murder and Prison Violence

PRISONS I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. Matthew (10, 34) Bloody Ground, Beaumont, Texas The penitentiary in Beaumont, Texas, was called Bloody Land by Americans because of the high percentage of murders and violent acts that occurred there. It was very complex. While still in prison in Miami, in order to … Continue reading Hombre del Silencio: The Prison Diary of Ramon Labanino [one of the Cuban 5 heroes] Part 4: Prisons; Living with Prisoners; Yoga Classes

What did we do to get out of the hole? We were in the hole because they wanted us to be there, it was a way of punishing us, but we began to make demands through internal prison forms. Inside the hole one can ask for better conditions, and for this purpose they use some … Continue reading Hombre del Silencio: The Prison Diary of Ramon Labanino [one of the Cuban 5 heroes] Part 2: What did we do to get out of the hole; The Sentences