For The Daily Beast, J.B. Nicholas (pictured) has written pieces about what it was like to celebrate Christmas and Independence Day behind bars. Now, for The Gothamist, he has detailed his battles with the NYPD.
Nicholas was incarcerated from 1990 to 2003, serving a sentence for the manslaughter of a crack dealer. While in prison, he became a jailhouse lawyer and one of the people he helped, a Latin King leader named Tiger, arranged as a form of payment a job with the Woodbourne Correctional Facility newspaper.
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