How to Stay Healthy in High Security Prisons

The other inmates see you getting ready to go home and they're mad. They don't want to be locked up. Even people that are super institutionalized, like, you know, they feel the pangs of jealousy and wish it was them. So especially for a guy doing life or who's on drugs, he might have a beef with the person who's getting out and come at him with a knife. He's got nothing else to lose. That's why in the feds and other high security violent prisons, when you have 60 days, two months to the gate, it's very common for inmates to put themselves into solitary confinement.