Prison Ramen: Recipes and Stories from Behind Bars by Clifton Collins Read Free Book Online Page B
Authors: Clifton Collins
got together with a couple of guys one time and we posted notices on the bulletin boards all over the prison saying it was mattress exchange day. Everyone was required to take his mattress up to the laundry room during yard time before lunch. About a hundred guys lined up at the guard shack, trying to get through the metal detector with their mattresses, until the guards figured out it was a hoax.
Rusty Coones is the lead guitar player for Attika7, a custom bike builder for Illusion Motorcycles, and a costar on
Sons of Anarchy.
Baked Chicken Ramen
Ingredients
1 pack chicken flavor Ramen
½ cup water
½ cup chopped baked chicken breast
1. Crush the Ramen in the wrapper and empty into a bowl. Add the seasoning.
2. Add the water, stir, cover, and microwave for 3 to 5 minutes, until the Ramen is soft.
3. Add the chicken, stir, re-cover, and microwave for 1 minute more.
Prison Boots
I nmates are separated for a variety of reasons, including what is easy to see (race) and what is much more complex (gang affiliation). There’s a little prison legend about how two Hispanic groups broke apart. A long time ago, it is said that all California Hispanics were united as one in the California Department of Corrections. Northern and Southern California Hispanics stuck together and were powerful in prison and on the streets. Supposedly, one day in the late 1960s all that changed. A Southern Hispanic gang member accused a Northern gang member of stealing his boots. After weeks of mounting tension, a most vicious riot occurred between the Northern and Southern Hispanics. I’m sure there was more to it than those stinking boots, but my experience is that we Hispanics are a prideful lot, and we don’t back down from a disagreement, no matter how ridiculous it is.
To this day, these two sides are worst enemies, both in prison and now on the streets. The only thing other than race they have in common is their stinking, ugly prison boots.
Dirty Ramen
Ingredients
1 pack chili flavor Ramen
1 cup boiling water
1 package (5.7 to 8 ounces) microwavable dirty rice
1 summer sausage (about 9 ounces), chopped, or 1 can (9 ounces) Vienna sausage, drained and chopped
½ cup chopped green beans
½ cup chopped carrots
½ cup chopped onion
Note: “Dirty rice” is white rice cooked with seasonings. If you can’t find it, any flavored microwavable rice will do.
1. Crush the Ramen in the wrapper and empty into a bowl. Set aside the seasoning packet.
2. Add the water, cover, and let sit for 8 minutes.
3. Drain off excess water.
4. Meanwhile, microwave the rice as directed on the package.
5. Add the rice to the Ramen.
6. Mix the sausage, green beans, carrots, and onion in a microwavable bowl. Cover and microwave for 5 minutes, until hot.
7. Add the sausage mixture to the Ramen and rice. Mix well.
No Warning Shots
W hen I first started doing time in the early 1990s, every gun tower had a sign with the same promise: ONE WARNING SHOT. This meant that if you did not get down when the alarm rang, or as soon as the first warning shot let out, the next shot would have your name on it. Many a time, I’d be eating indoors in the chow hall when a fight would start outside on the yard. The alarm would go off, signifying
get down.
A second later, you’d hear the first warning shot—a Mini-14 rifle aimed out the window of the gun tower toward the sky. The sound was so loud it left your ear drums ringing. It was a real attention-getter.
Gang hits in the late ’90s were getting crazier by the day—most of the attacks would continue even after the first shot rang out. Performing a hit this way, with total disregard for the warning shots, is called a “torpedo hit.” These acts were usually done by youngsters trying to make a name for themselves. Some were successful in the hit, while others might get shot and end up in worse condition than the guy they were sent out to hit.
During my time at Corcoran, in order to control the boldness of
Rusty Coones is the lead guitar player for Attika7, a custom bike builder for Illusion Motorcycles, and a costar on
Sons of Anarchy.
Baked Chicken Ramen
Ingredients
1 pack chicken flavor Ramen
½ cup water
½ cup chopped baked chicken breast
1. Crush the Ramen in the wrapper and empty into a bowl. Add the seasoning.
2. Add the water, stir, cover, and microwave for 3 to 5 minutes, until the Ramen is soft.
3. Add the chicken, stir, re-cover, and microwave for 1 minute more.
Prison Boots
I nmates are separated for a variety of reasons, including what is easy to see (race) and what is much more complex (gang affiliation). There’s a little prison legend about how two Hispanic groups broke apart. A long time ago, it is said that all California Hispanics were united as one in the California Department of Corrections. Northern and Southern California Hispanics stuck together and were powerful in prison and on the streets. Supposedly, one day in the late 1960s all that changed. A Southern Hispanic gang member accused a Northern gang member of stealing his boots. After weeks of mounting tension, a most vicious riot occurred between the Northern and Southern Hispanics. I’m sure there was more to it than those stinking boots, but my experience is that we Hispanics are a prideful lot, and we don’t back down from a disagreement, no matter how ridiculous it is.
To this day, these two sides are worst enemies, both in prison and now on the streets. The only thing other than race they have in common is their stinking, ugly prison boots.
Dirty Ramen
Ingredients
1 pack chili flavor Ramen
1 cup boiling water
1 package (5.7 to 8 ounces) microwavable dirty rice
1 summer sausage (about 9 ounces), chopped, or 1 can (9 ounces) Vienna sausage, drained and chopped
½ cup chopped green beans
½ cup chopped carrots
½ cup chopped onion
Note: “Dirty rice” is white rice cooked with seasonings. If you can’t find it, any flavored microwavable rice will do.
1. Crush the Ramen in the wrapper and empty into a bowl. Set aside the seasoning packet.
2. Add the water, cover, and let sit for 8 minutes.
3. Drain off excess water.
4. Meanwhile, microwave the rice as directed on the package.
5. Add the rice to the Ramen.
6. Mix the sausage, green beans, carrots, and onion in a microwavable bowl. Cover and microwave for 5 minutes, until hot.
7. Add the sausage mixture to the Ramen and rice. Mix well.
No Warning Shots
W hen I first started doing time in the early 1990s, every gun tower had a sign with the same promise: ONE WARNING SHOT. This meant that if you did not get down when the alarm rang, or as soon as the first warning shot let out, the next shot would have your name on it. Many a time, I’d be eating indoors in the chow hall when a fight would start outside on the yard. The alarm would go off, signifying
get down.
A second later, you’d hear the first warning shot—a Mini-14 rifle aimed out the window of the gun tower toward the sky. The sound was so loud it left your ear drums ringing. It was a real attention-getter.
Gang hits in the late ’90s were getting crazier by the day—most of the attacks would continue even after the first shot rang out. Performing a hit this way, with total disregard for the warning shots, is called a “torpedo hit.” These acts were usually done by youngsters trying to make a name for themselves. Some were successful in the hit, while others might get shot and end up in worse condition than the guy they were sent out to hit.
During my time at Corcoran, in order to control the boldness of
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