LETTERS FROM MARION - 2nd edition: A Deadheads Journey From Peace To A Supermax Prison

PRISON, POKER, POLITICS AND THE POP IN THE HOUSING BUBBLE, THE WAR ON DRUGS, RACE, LSD & THE GRATEFUL DEAD PRISON RACE WAR, PRISON FIGHTS, SUPER MAX PRISON WITH JOHN GOTTI..... Joel is an avid Grateful Dead fan that had the awesome gift and pleasure of seeing the Grateful Dead 101 times from 1984 (at age 15) to 1992 spanning five countries and over 30 states, until losing his federal jury trial for selling LSD, as chronicled in his book Letters From Marion, A Deadheads Journey from Peace to a Supermax Prison. Shortly after release from USP Marion Supermax federal prison, Joel started restoring and developing real estate buying his first property using a arcane law allowing him to secretly buy a property from the federal government, at a United States Marshall drug seizure auction (827 E Wright street Milwaukee, WI). Joel is now on his 56th and 57th property in northern Wisconsin on the shores of Lake Michigan. In 1974, at the age of five and a half, Joel was diagnosed with ADD and was prescribed Adderall. Per a 2nd opinion, he was prescribed a natural diet as a total alternative to the drugs and thus started a food ingredient odyssey that continues to THIS DAY. October 15, 1995. Congress makes a decision changing the federal drug law, inciting simultaneous riots in over 10 federal prisons as a result of the seemingly racial motivation, causing over 39 million dollars in damage. And no one reported it. Joel Blaeser survived the riot at FCI Talladega, the first of over ten, only to be charged with inciting it along with 21 other convicts, all black. An inspiring educational book that breaks many myths about the war on drugs, the american prison system and race in america. Joel's story chronicles his journey through the prison system, beginning with his trek across the globe following the Grateful Dead, then spanning the 6 federal prisons he did time in, in USP Marion, the most dangerous federal super maximum prison ever built, eventually culminating in the loss of his 2.9 million dollar lake estate and recovery from alcohol. Incarcerated (after losing his federal jury trial) as a naive Midwesterner 23 year old, Joel is amongst and one of the morally corrupt living in lock up where the guards are as corrupt as the criminals. A backstage pass to a otherwise off limits world, Joel's story's rich unvarnished details of life inside "the" most predaceous super maximum prison ever devised, USP Marion during the 1990's, where the entire prison population was on 22-23 hour lockdown. Sentenced to 151 months as a first time nonviolent offender, he grew up in a university of crime; learning how to survive both in and outside of the spiritually bereft walls of prison from the likes of John gotti, Bruce Pierce, James (Doc) Holliday and many others, some of the most predaceous and sophisticated criminals of our time. The genesis of his rehabilitation was 23 hour solitary lockdown in USP Marion. A story of loss, injustice and redemption, this autobiographical account is speckled with raw, human experience in the form of Joel's letters to loved ones from USP Marion. race relations, solitary confinement, political uprising, usp marion, grateful dead tour, prison psychology, war on drugs, pop in the housing bubble, poker, View Less