Jun 1, 2026 · 1 hr · 16 segments
THE BLURB: In prison, nobody helps anybody. Except their friends. In this episode, John will introduce you to his circle of friends, some of whom remained his friend long after they all got out of…
It really does make a huge difference.It is critically, crucially important in prison to surround yourself with good people.
There was a congressman from Ohio, Bob Nye, who went to prison in two thousand eight as part of the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal.
And when he got out of prison after having served thirty months, he said in an interview, "You don't go to prison to make friends.
But when I was in prison, I made friends that will last a lifetime." And I remember thinking that was nuts at the time.
You have to be able to rely on at least one person, somebody you can talk to, to get you through it.
Now, there is a huge difference between friends in prison and roommates or cellmates in prison.
You have to be able to at least tolerate the people that you're sharing a room with.
And when I say sharing a room, I mean sharing a room that's roughly eight feet by fifteen feet, and there are six people crammed in there.
When you first arrive in prison, you don't get any say whatsoever in where you live or who you live with.
If you can do that for six months and not have any disciplinary infractions, you can ask to be moved into another cell.
A disciplinary infraction can be literally anything from not eating all the food on your plate to telling a guard to go fuck himself or to getting caught stealing food from the cafeteria.
It really does make a huge difference.It is critically, crucially important in prison to surround yourself with good people.
There was a congressman from Ohio, Bob Nye, who went to prison in two thousand eight as part of the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal.
And when he got out of prison after having served thirty months, he said in an interview, "You don't go to prison to make friends.
But when I was in prison, I made friends that will last a lifetime." And I remember thinking that was nuts at the time.
You have to be able to rely on at least one person, somebody you can talk to, to get you through it.
Now, there is a huge difference between friends in prison and roommates or cellmates in prison.
You have to be able to at least tolerate the people that you're sharing a room with.
And when I say sharing a room, I mean sharing a room that's roughly eight feet by fifteen feet, and there are six people crammed in there.
When you first arrive in prison, you don't get any say whatsoever in where you live or who you live with.
If you can do that for six months and not have any disciplinary infractions, you can ask to be moved into another cell.
A disciplinary infraction can be literally anything from not eating all the food on your plate to telling a guard to go fuck himself or to getting caught stealing food from the cafeteria.
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