“The Most Br*tal S/A I Ever Saw in Prison.. “

Look, man. There’s a lot of things that go down in the penitentiary that are just terrible. I make these videos and I talk about those things at the risk of losing my channel, something I worked hard for. But a lot of y’all was in the comments saying, “Tell us a good one. Tell us a doozy. Tell us something heartbreaking. Tell us something that’s going to make me say, ‘What the actual heck.'” Today, we’re going to do just that. Let’s get into it, man.

Anyway, I’ve done almost 15 years, man. I’ve been to some of the hardest places that my state, Virginia, has got to offer us. I’ve been to level fives, been to supermaxes, I’ve been to threes, fours. I’ve seen some wild stuff, man. Real talk, I’ve seen some wild stuff. Stuff that keeps me up at night. Probably got PTSD from it. But it’s whatever.

Today, we’re talking about a young man named Savage. Now, Savage was one of those white dudes that came to prison and just fell into the wrong crowd, man. Wasn’t like a bad dude. He had been an addict on the street, addicted to drugs, and when he got to jail, got clean, got himself together, started working out. Young cat. Got his whole life ahead of him. Ain’t had but like a 5-year sentence to do, man. And being that young, you get easily manipulated by older people, even younger people. People that might got a little bit more status than you or maybe you look up to them in some form or fashion. But when you’re very young, you’re easily molded. That’s why being a parent is so important. That’s why being there for your children is so important.

Now, after you go to jail, you go to receiving, right? Once you get to receiving, you find out where you’re going to go. Well, he had a violent crime, so he was sent to a level three-four. Now, three-fours, they’re not the supermaxes, but don’t get it twisted. It gets crazy in them three-fours, too. You’re still in prison. You still got all the things in there: the killers, the hardheads, all the things. So, he decided he was going to join himself a little prison gang. A lot of gangs, man, might look good on the outside to youngsters, but they’re all bad on the inside. Most of them really are.

So, when he signed up for this little goofy prison gang, he didn’t realize that he was making a huge mistake. A lot of these little white dudes come from smaller towns, mountain towns or small counties and things like that. Virginia’s the south, bro, so there’s a lot of small towns out here. We got major cities—Newport News, Richmond, Northern Virginia. But they watch Gangland or they watch Lockup Raw before they get incarcerated, and they think that it’s really like that out here, or that they’re going to sign up with some little racial gang or Aryan gang that’s going to help them get through their prison sentence.

And maybe in their little county jail, that helped. Maybe when the ratio isn’t so extreme. Like in prison, African-Americans are at the top as far as numbers. So, if you’re coming from a little town where your jail had 300 people and 250 of them were white, you’re in for a culture shock, bro, when you get to prison and you’re around these urban maniacs that have got life sentences, that hate you.

Now, he signed up for this gang while he was in his jail and got a bunch of this stuff tattooed on him: racist swastikas, war birds, sayings, and things like that. And he thought that was going to help him when he got down the road. So, he comes to prison and he’s automatically a target, because where he was at, it was gangland, and they were definitely not the majority. But he hung in there, ended up just kind of working out, staying off of dope, not messing with the stuff. He does his little thing, gets some little job in the kitchen.

Now, a job in the kitchen is pretty cool because you can eat what you want, you can kind of get you a little side hustle if you ain’t got a lot of money coming in. What he didn’t realize is that when you speak to people, when you talk to people, there’s always going to be somebody listening to you. And the one thing people in prison have a lot of is time to prepare, to plot, and to come up with some type of scheme. There’s a lot of scheming going on in the penitentiary, man.

So, when he’s talking to his homeboys, his brothers, and doing all the things, there’s somebody listening. He’s talking about, “Yeah, I used to be on dope. I used to be sick off the dope, man, and now I’m clean.” But addiction is a weakness. And if a man shows a weakness, that means that weakness exists. Once an addict, always an addict. All you got to do is pull it back out of them. So, while he’s telling these people all this stuff, there’s somebody listening. There’s somebody that maybe wants something from him.

Now, in prison you got predator and you got prey. You got dudes that all they want to do is be predators. All they want to do is hurt people. All they want to do is take something from you sexually. A lot of undercover stuff in prison, man. A lot of people in the closet. They come out of it once in a while, go back in. Now, you got people who are new, who are green, and you got men that have been incarcerated for 20 years, 30 years, who have done nothing but prey on new people. That’s their get-down. That’s what they like to do. And out east, we’re not like out west where there is a strict structure. There’s always going to be that aspect, no matter what type of rules you put in as inmates; there’s always going to be somebody that’s trying to take advantage.

So my man gets a job in the kitchen, and he’s very adamant: “Hey, I’m a man, not going for that.” But when you work in these bigger areas, you work around all types of people. You’re going to work around these individual predators I talk about. You’re going to work around cool dudes. You’re going to work around individuals who are more feminine. You have to interact with them, so even if you don’t want to, you have to if you want to keep your little 35-cent-an-hour job.

So the person he was at the station with was one of these individuals. It was a feminine Black guy that had fake breasts, long hair, and wore makeup. That’s also an individual who is professional at turning people out. And he started making it his objective to do that with Savage.

And Savage, at first, was like,

“Man, that’s ridiculous. I’m not going for that. Stop that.”

He was adamant about it. But as the months were going by, it started to be,

“Stop, man. I ain’t going…”

And then we started seeing it. I started noticing it became more of a jovial thing, because repetition can make you less callous to a situation. It went to laughing it off: “Haha, stop, stop.” And once that person sees that, they know that they’re starting to break through the thick skin. It kept going and kept on.

I don’t know exactly how it started, if they had started sneaking off or what, but he stopped hanging out with his homies, with his boys. He stopped wanting to be around other people. He started actually talking to this individual outside of the work, outside of the job.

One thing about this individual, though—he liked to sniff dope, liked to get high. So, he started pushing it on Savage a little bit:

“Come on, just take a little hit.”

“Nah, nah, nah, I’m good. I ain’t with that. I’m good.”

But if you sit in the barbershop long enough, eventually you’re going to get a haircut, bro. If you’re hanging out with nine addicts, you will be the tenth. So, he started sniffing a little bit here and there. And that first time you do dope after not doing dope a long time, sometimes you get sick. So, I seen him personally go to the cell and throw up and things like that, man, because he was doing the dope again. Be all pale, sitting there nodding off.

And when you do that in prison, it’s all bad because it makes you unaware of what’s going on around you, man. It makes you slow. It makes you ignorant to a lot of things that’s happening around you. You don’t see things.

Once they got you, they got you. So, then he started wanting it for himself. He wasn’t just sniffing the other dude’s stuff anymore. He’s like,

“Let me get a little bit to take back to the cell. Let me get a little bit.”

And the whole time, the dude’s like,

“I got you.”

So, now you’ve run up a debt. Now the dude wants to collect:

“I didn’t look out for you for free. I’m looking out for me.”

And Savage was like,

“Ah, nah, man. Come on. I ain’t… Nah.”

Ain’t no nah. So, that became a strain in their little relationship, and the guy took it personal. Felt some type of way. Now, this guy had been locked up a long time, knew people, dealt with people. And if you’re on that type of stuff, you’re going to hang around people who are on that type of stuff.

So, he came to Savage again and said,

“I looked out for you. I want you to look out for me.”

Savage was like,

“Nah. I’m not doing that. I’m not…”

Whatever he was trying to get him to do, he wasn’t feeling it. So, he stopped talking to the guy altogether.

But that don’t matter. You still took his dope—hundreds of dollars worth of dope.

“Well, then I’m going to need you to pay that.”

Savage didn’t have money like that. He was working in the kitchen making $35 a month. He said,

“Well, I don’t have to give you any money. You didn’t tell me that I owed you money for that.”

“Well, you didn’t owe me money at first, but now you do.”

So, he tried to go back to hang out with his homeboys. They cut him off:

“Nah, man. You was over there running around with that guy.”

Well, Savage was on his own. But see, he had put himself there on his own. He had made it that way. He had cut everybody off because he started wanting to flirt and get high. His defenses were down. He wanted to get high; it was all about the sniff. So, whether or not he internally really wanted to kick it with that dude, the fact was that if he did, it would get him some dope. It was worth it to him because that’s what addiction does, man. Makes you do things you normally wouldn’t do.

So, now we got a situation. We got an individual who wants their money because you weren’t trying to give them what they wanted, and you ain’t got the cash. You try to hit your boys up, they ain’t helping you. You call home, ain’t nothing happening there. What are you going to do?

So, all he could do is what he could do. He said,

“Look, I ain’t got it. I’m not going to give it to you. It is what it is. We can fight.”

That’s what he said:

“We can fight if you want.”

He made a big scene in the kitchen, stood up all macho:

“What’s up then? We can get it in then!”

“Oh, no problem.”

The other guy got all theatrical, acting dramatic, but that was all an act. There was already a plan in motion.

So the day comes when Savage gets up early, like 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning. That’s when they call the morning kitchen workers to go in and start cooking breakfast for everybody. At 3:30 a.m., he gets up, puts his kitchen whites on—which is different from the blues that we wear—and goes to the front booth:

“Going to work.”

They let him out. He walks down the boulevard, goes into the kitchen, thinking it’s just another day where he’s going to cook some eggs, make some potatoes, or mop the floor—whatever it is that he did over there. It wasn’t. It wasn’t another normal day at all.

He goes into the kitchen. Every kitchen in a prison has a mop closet where they keep all the cleaning supplies, a dry storage area, and a walk-in freezer, just like a regular restaurant. You also have kitchen supervisors that are not inmates, people that come in from the street. Usually there’s two, but today there was only one. And there’s a lot of inmates in this kitchen.

A couple of the inmates decided they were going to start a diversion to get the kitchen supervisor to look away and neglect the rest of the individuals. If you have a job and you come in every day, normally you’re a pretty well-behaved inmate. They don’t really worry too much about you; the only thing they really worry about is you sneaking eggs out when you leave, which you get patted down for. So, they’re not expecting fights or assaultive behavior.

When two people started to argue and got real loud, that supervisor rushed over there. Now the kitchen supervisor was focused on those two. But all that was just a ploy, a distraction.

Because the minute that happened, Savage was grabbed up and pulled into that walk-in freezer. He was pulled in by three individuals, three big convicts. Savage was a little white dude, and these three guys grabbed him and pulled him in there. He had no shot. He couldn’t even defend himself. That’s how strong men are. People think in their mind that this type of stuff would never happen to them. It will happen to you if you allow it, if you put yourself in that situation.

Now, most of the time they’re not just running around grabbing people up doing this. There are reasons behind it, such as in this situation: money, or crossing the wrong person. The whole time, the other guy wasn’t even the main threat—it was these guys. The other dude was just a tool. They were all in it together.

Like I said, they always got time to plot and scheme. They’re not going anywhere, and neither are you.

So they pull him in there and they start to beat on him to get him to submit. They don’t have a lot of time, but they got some time. That walk-in seals shut, so you can’t hear anything, and they had somebody out there watching the door. Once they beat him—which doesn’t take but a couple seconds when it’s three against one to beat someone into submission—he soon realized what was getting ready to happen to him.

I wasn’t in there, but I know what I was told as far as how it looked when he came out. They put that boy on his knees and pinned him up against the wall, head against the wall.

“Open your mouth. Open your mouth.”

They took turns on him, and all three of them assaulted him. All three of them.

When they were done, they opened the door, came out, left him in there, and went right back to working.

Now, the aftermath. Whatever they did to that boy in there, his jaw was broken, the front teeth had been knocked out, and his septum had been caved in. If you try to resist, they’ll pinch your nose shut because you have to breathe, and it was smashed so hard it crushed the septum. The back of his throat was bruised to the point of swelling.

Let me tell you something else about this type of situation that people don’t think about: they aren’t practicing safety, and this boy ingested whatever they forced down his throat, along with blood and everything else. What if one of those dudes had HIV, AIDS, or whatever else? Those are the things you think about in the aftermath.

He was found by another worker just laying there after this all happened. They took him down to the medical unit, and that’s where he was. His mouth had been torn; they had to stitch his mouth back up.

People want to come to prison and play games, thinking everything’s a game, thinking, “That wouldn’t happen to me.” Well, I’m sure Savage didn’t think it was going to happen to him, either.

I don’t know what happened to Savage after that. I don’t know what happened to those guys after that. They all disappeared, because he definitely told officials who it was, so I’m sure all types of investigations happened.

These are the things you need to think about before you go out there and do something dumb. You need to think about yourself, your family, your kids if you got them. But most importantly, think about Savage, and if that’s how you want to end up. Because there ain’t no scripts, ain’t no filters. It’s the hard, living truth around here.