It began with a European documentary filmmaker interviewing the inmate, probably a reference to Werner Herzog's current documentary "Into the Abyss".
Until they found out I was in for doing a home invasion on an alleged drug dealer and that, no matter what, I was going "down below," as the inmates say in reference to federal time.
The resolution mentions the four prison employees and seven corrections officers killed at Attica but does not make reference to the 32 inmates who died in the uprising.
The interview schedule was reviewed for both content and clarity by experts in the field, a research reference group, and a former inmate.
The reference would have escaped most inmates, but Solomon got it.
The comment, she said, was a reference to other violent confrontations with inmates at the prison her husband had mentioned.
It seems we have something to learn from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, whose concurring opinion today in Holt v Hobbs, a religious liberty case involving a Muslim inmate's beard, came in at 65 words, including references and parentheticals.
When it's not being funny, though, "Orange" (a reference to the color of the jump suits new inmates wear) can seem inconsequential.
Inmate rape has such an established place in the mythology of prison that references to confinement often call forth jokes about sexual assault.
And now, in Queens, the word is also a shorthand reference to criminal case No. Q11610636, and as such, an unfortunate nickname for an inmate in a Riker's Island jail dorm for men.
