Table Of ContentPELICAN BAY RIOT
By Glenn Langohr
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Copyright © 2012 by Glenn Langohr
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PELICAN BAY RIOT
Copyright 2012 by Glenn Langohr
Book Cover by William Cook
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All True Prison Books by the Author are in the Kindle Store, including:
Roll Call
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Lock Up Diaries, Drug Debts
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Race Riot
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Gladiator
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Upon Release From Prison
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Underdog
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About the Author
Glenn Langohr is the author of five true prison books: Roll Call, Upon Release
from Prison, Drug Debts, Race Riot, and Gladiator, the latter three known as the
California Pelican Bay Prison Diaries. Glenn spent ten years in various level 4
prisons in California. It was during this time that he wrote his first book, Roll
Call. In this book, Glenn takes you on a journey from a runaway childhood, to
addict and drug dealer, into the drug war for an inside look at Mexican cartel
wars; corrupt overzealous narcotic detectives, and a California Prison Union
bent on breeding bigger criminals.
Glenn openly admits that he is an obsessive-compulsive addict; in recovery,
saved by God's Grace, who researched the U.S War on Drugs so deeply, that he
met and did business with Mexican Cartels, outlaw bikers and street gangs until
the criminal justice system interrupted him.
It was during his 10 years in prison that he wrote every morning at 4 AM, before
the politics and survival in a variety of California level 4 prisons took over.
Upon his release from prison, Glenn married his dream girl ballerina, Sanette,
who was very much involved in her church.
RACE RIOT
Chapter 1
The prison was off the beaten path on a remote stretch 100 miles from
civilization where nobody knew or cared about the nightmarish tension within. I
thought about the war zone I was headed back to. This was one of the hardest
core prisons in the state of California. The Pelican Bay SHU released inmates
here and often times sent them back.
Redwood trees soared in the distance as the bus climbed a hill and the prison
came into view. One fence after another boxed one little yard after another and
was the only concrete other than the street taking us there. I counted 12 different
mini fenced in concrete jungles and there were more I couldn’t see behind other
buildings as the bus pulled into a narrow strip where the razor wire tops of
fences started. We waited until a guard came out of a booth and checked the bus.
We were waved in, and shuffled to the receiving part of the prison where we
waited to get processed. I, who answered to the name B.J, was one of a handful
who had already been housed. I’d left to court on appeal.
My case, a drug case, had already been heard in court but I sent it to the
Supreme Court. The reason I did was for ineffective council. 6 out of 10 cases
from Orange County, California that go to the Supreme Court on appeal are
overturned, most for ineffective counsel. In my case I was guilty as hell of
dealing drugs but still holding a chip on my shoulder for being labeled a cartel
level gun and drug dealer, outright lies. I am a California bred white man who
used to surf , play sports and go to church until drugs polluted my soul, and I
started to use them to pay bills.
Being an obsessive compulsive hypersensitive individual I happened to be very
good at gathering and collecting and had made to many enemies in the drug
world who put together a collection of lies law enforcement was only too happy
to write in police reports. Having already been housed in the mainline population
of the prison I only had to wait a couple hours for the escort deputies to arrive.
On the walk from the receiving portion of the prison I had a prison guard on my
right and left and was escorted down a 6 foot wide strip of concrete to building
right and left and was escorted down a 6 foot wide strip of concrete to building
6. On the way there I looked to the right where the prison yard opened up like a
baseball field where a gun tower of green had a gun hanging out a square box
where home plate would've been. Exercise bars were in rows where first base
would've been, and a circular track surrounded the rest of the yard. To my left,
we walked past building 4, then 5 and then I heard the guard on my right speak
into his headset, "Escort deputy Landry, pop gate 6."
A chain link fence with swirling razor wire in circles at the top of it opened. We
walked into a 70 foot by 70 foot Sally-Port the gun tower for building 6 was in
watching from above. I looked up and saw the tower guard behind a bullet proof
window with bars diagonally spaced a foot apart. He was carrying a 50
millimeter rifle hanging from a shoulder strap over a dog door sized opening he
could take aim and fire through.
Chapter 2
We entered the building. Walking through a narrow vestibule underneath the gun
tower I looked up and saw guards walking on the glass above and knew they had
to see us in case we picked this narrow vestibule for a race war or other violent
act to handle business. There were two squared openings in the thick glass, one
for dropping tear gas, the other for firing rounds.
Twenty feet of vestibule later the building's interior. The noise from 200 inmates
reached my ears. As the sound registered, so did something deeper, more
pervasive, the energy behind the noise. Yelling from inmates locked in cells
became visible as did a few inmates walking with brooms. A couple of Black
crip gang members were showering on the bottom floor. One went by Danger
and looked like a crack baby skinny as a rail and all elbows and kneecaps with a
wild afro on to small of a head. The other went by T-Rock and looked like a
body builder and was all business. Upstairs in the second set of showers were a
couple of Mexicans rinsing off. One was from West LA and the other from south
of the border Tijuana.
I looked up at the gun tower past the red block letter sign-NO WARNING
SHOTS FIRED, WARDEN-and saw the 2 guards talking to each other, they
weren’t paying attention, and this gave me some time to roam around before
getting locked in my cell.
I walked toward my cell and seven cells down on my left I stopped at Popeye’s
grilled door and knocked from the side allowing him privacy rather than stick
my head in without consideration. "What's up Pops? I just got back from my
appeal and lost. Now I need medical for a check up from the neck up."
"B.J...Just a second I'm just finishing my bird bath."
I gave Popeye space to finish his cell shower with my back against the wall so I
could see the tower and everything else. I needed to know what was up with a
cell across from him. The prison administration allowed a probable notorious
child molester killer into our domain. We didn’t have the facts to validate he was
indeed a child molester killer; we’d heard it from a prison guard. Whether it was
indeed a child molester killer; we’d heard it from a prison guard. Whether it was
on purpose or a mistake was yet to come out. Of utmost import was the cell mate
of the possible child molester. Popeye and I did our homework as thorough as
could be done so everything would come out of the wash and that took more
research than most district attorneys would give.
In so doing, we went back way deeper. With David, AKA- "Rooster", the cell
mate of the probable child killer, we knew David was an orphan who grew up in
L.A and entered the prison system not as a gang member, or even any kind of
violent or sophisticated criminal, just a homeless-drug addict. His life sentence
for a number of petty thefts and residential burglaries kept him in hotels with a
side of dope on occasion, at best. The prison system bred him into a shooter for
the A.B, a notorious White Clan, by using him to put in work by stabbing their
offenders. Now he was on his way to Pelican Bay. But the kicker was he was
about to get a chance at having his life sentence reduced on appeal where the
courts would have latitude to modify his sentence for stealing a piece of pizza, a
petty theft, strike 3. Quite a dilemma. These are the days of our prison lives.
Popeye came to the door. "B.J...Our man of the hour is going to whack the piece
of shit."
I had it figured that way. Even with the chance of hope for a sentence reduction
it was too late. Rooster had been bred into a warrior with pride and honor
devoted to his destruction. He couldn't fathom living with himself, or how others
would view him, for living with a piece of shit that molested people’s daughters
under the age of 10, then killing them. Could you blame him?
Popeye had more to say, "The war brewing with the Cans and the Blacks is
about to go. We are not moving any weapons out to the yard for em."
I knew the Cans was short for Mexicans and that we definitely weren’t going to
smuggle knives and cans of mackerel to the yard where they would get buried
near sprinklers so the metal detectors wouldn't go off. Those same weapons
could later be used on us, the outnumbered whites. No thanks.
I thought about how the two Mexican Mafia reps in our building had been
working on both Popeye and I over the last month in, “Talks", at our cell doors
to smuggle weapons to the yard. Neither Popeye nor I explained the
repulsiveness at the thought of smuggling weapons for them, then burying them
on the yard, and then imagining the opportunity for those same weapons being
slammed into our own loved ones given a change in circumstances.
