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Mar. 5, 2007 This goes back to 1987, when, as I mentioned in a couple of earlier articles, I was incarcerated briefly in Oahu Community Correctional Center, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Steve, the cocaine pusher, was entirely or nearly entirely Polynesian, and like many Polynesians, was of seemingly superhuman physical strength. He stood about 6'-3" tall and weighed 225 to 250 pounds, with the muscular definition of a stallion or a bull. Borge, another Polynesian whom I described as the born-again Christian hired killer of three people, may possibly have been stronger than Steve, but surely no one else around there was. I can't recall Steve's last name, or even whether it was Hawaiian or Euro-American. Definitely Borge the killer had perpetrated evil acts, but in his everyday conduct, he was usually friendly enough, and never attacked anyone, but that may have been due to the fact that he was appealing his life-plus-twenty-years sentence, and wanted his conduct to be impeccable when he went to court. But Steve was evil every day of the week. If anyone said the least little thing that offended him, his fists would fly, and the victim would be too intimidated to call on the guards, lest more punches come his way later. So-called 'snitches' or 'rats' can look forward to reprisals from other inmates who were not even involved. This is the code. I saw Steve strike several people during my stay, and he looked as if he could hit as least as hard as Tyson. Steve, who was only 23, had been arrested for selling cocaine. He boasted that he had sold about 60 kilograms a month, which would have amounted to gross sales of $600,000 or $700,000 at the time. I personally have never bought or taken any cocaine, but gossip had it that the going rate was $10,000 to $12,000 a kilo. When Steve was arrested, he was found to own 20 expensive brand-new sports cars, which he was planning to use to establish a dummy automobile dealership as a cover for his cocaine money. His ordinary conversation was hair-raising. He talked about setting afire people who had double-crossed him. I don't know whether he had actually done such things or whether he was just talking big. But having daily contact with him made me shudder to think what he must have been like on the outside. He was hoping to get off with 15 years, and at that time, federal parole had not yet been abolished, so he would have walked about midway through his sentence, which would have seen him in back on the streets by 1995. But I heard later that he got a firm sentence of 25 years, without parole, so chances are, that, now 43, he is still in prison in some place like San Quentin or Leavenworth. Steve was not very intelligent, and had only a high-school education if that, so he would not have been very attractive on the job market. One often sees men like Steve working as bouncers at taverns and night-clubs on Waikiki, but once he had seen big money, it's doubtful that he would ever have settled for $400 or $500 a week as a doorman, ------------ About the author Thomas Keyes: I have written two books: A SOJOURN IN ASIA (non-fiction) and A TALE OF UNG (fiction), neither published so far. I have studied languages for years and traveled extensively on five continents. Email: udikeyes@yahoo.com Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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