Another missive from prison by George Martorano, the inmate serving life with no parole that
Bunk beds are cute in the free-world home, especially for children. Try sleeping on one for 20+ years as an adult. After years of it, one’s lower back can be ruined, unless, upon waking you stretch and exercise. Those who don’t usually end up in wheel-chairs.
For half of the prisoners “aging†in prison, a wheel-chair awaits. All sorts of illness’s call a prisoner as he ages.
This article appears in Aug 22-28, 2007.