Five Reasons to Chase and Capture Sobriety

More than 15 million people in the world are currently affected by alcoholism, and 23 million people are addicted to some form of drug. Many of those people do not realize that they have an addiction that is causing chaos in their lives and the lives of the people around them. A large number of people do realize their actions through their own personal observations or the help of family interventions, helping to them to find a great drug rehab inpatient program.  Sadly, not all of them choose to go to drug rehab centers. The reason for the initial treatment denial may be a lack of motivation. The following are five reasons that a person with a drug or alcohol problem should make a goal of becoming and staying sober:



1. Sobriety Increases Quality of Life

People sometimes do not realize how expensive a drug or alcohol habit is until they stop using those substances. Some people need to see a visual breakdown of the calculations to believe that drug and alcohol cessation can improve the quality of their lives. A person with a narcotic prescription pill addiction may have to pay anywhere from $5 to $30 for each pill that he or she buys. Therefore, the average adult male or female with a fierce addiction may spend $175 a week on the habit at the very least. The savings that person can obtain by kicking the drug habit can afford him or her monthly rent on a brand new apartment, or payments for two brand new vehicles.



2. Sobriety Improves the Relationship with One’s Higher Power

Religion has many sectors, but most of them deal with the rules of life that are set forth by a higher power. The higher power of most religions would not want a mortal person to idolize a substance more than that person idolizes the higher power. Additionally, most religions contain rules about purity. Drugs are bodily impurities. Drug and alcohol cessation can make a person feel better spiritually because that person will be living the pure life that the higher power desires.



3. Sobriety Cuts Medical Expenses

Getting sober and staying sober may have an initial expense, but in the end, it can save a person thousands of dollars in medical expenses. Long-term alcohol abuse has medical repercussions such as liver disease, pancreatitis, depression and cardiovascular diseases. The long-term effects of drug use may include liver failure, heart attack, kidney damage and more. A person who stops using drugs and alcohol today can give his or her body a chance to heal before those long-term effects take place.



4. Sobriety Encourages Happiness

People who are highly involved in addictive behaviors often lose touch with their closest friends and family members. Such relationship damages can bring forth a sense of loneliness and isolation. Family members and friends will sometimes return and offer support when a person decides to get help through a rehabilitation facility. An increased support system will foster feelings of well-being, and the person will be happy.



5. Sobriety Provides Freedom Opportunity

Many persons who have addictions find themselves in trouble with the law. Criminal convictions such as DUI, assault and related crimes can cause a serious drop in a person’s potential to obtain gainful employment. An immediate trip into the realm of sobriety may not erase the convictions, but it can provide a clean slate and prevent any additional crimes from making their way into the person's life.

 So many reasons to get sober and stay sober exist. The main reason for changing one’s life is time. Life is too short for one to waste it away on painful activities. Sobriety is an enlightening experience that can truly open a person’s eyes. He or she will be able to take the journey with a feeling of purpose and accomplishment. A sober person can help other people to transform their lives into something of meaning, just like they were able to.


Sources:
http://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics
http://alcoholismstatistics.net/
http://americamagazine.org/issue/360/article/religion-science-and-substance-abuse
http://christianity.about.com/od/depressionandsuicide/a/laurietestimony.htm

Glenn Langohr on Real Orange TV with Ann Pulice & Ed Arnold.

Glenn Langohr's Interview On PBS "The Real Orange", where he spoke about his Drug War and Prison Books and the Reality TV show about addiction and recovery he is working on! Tap this link for my Prison Books~ http://amzn.to/1bhqCUh  He shines a light on Prison Overcrowding, the Hunger Strike, the lack of Rehabilitation and then points to a better way. To check out "My Hardest Step" in Print, being adapted for TV go here~ http://amzn.to/1930Lif

"My Hardest Step" Addiction Reality TV by Glenn Langohr

I'm so proud of Devon Castello! She explains her hopes and dreams as a little girl, how she became addicted to drugs and alcohol, and her "Hardest Step" to stay sober. To purchase the book that is inspiring the TV show go here http://amzn.to/1alEk5I "My Hardest Step" in Print, Kindle or Audio Book~ 

To purchase Glenn Langohr's drug war/prison books in Print, Kindle or Audio book, go here~ http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00571NY5A

"My Hardest Step" TV Show About Addiction Written By Glenn Langohr

Help me launch this! To purchase the Book that is inspiring the TV Show, tap this link~ http://amzn.to/12T0pX9 My Hardest Step Reality TV Star Nikki Six's Back Story and Her Hardest Step, "To stay sober, have courage and be more independent." Reviews and shares are appreciated. Message me if you can't afford it and I will gift it. Thank you for the support! It is already in the top 50 on Amazon for Drug Addiction and Recovery, on sale for .99 for immediate download to a tablet, computer or phone, and soon to be in Print, Audio Book and on TV, God willing. God bless everyone seeing this.

Same DiNamics: Underdog Book Review

Same DiNamics: Underdog Book Review: Underdog Author Glenn Langohr Synopsis: Another one of Glenn Langohr's stunning memoirs - a brave, unflinching account ... I love meeting people in the UK who read my books! This one read and reviewed my Prison Thriller, Underdog. It is the deepest look into prison life ever and is available in Print, Kindle or Audio Book here~ http://amzn.to/12J41br

Check Out This Interview: From Ex-Con To Best Selling Author

Check Out This Interview: From Ex-Con To Best Selling Author http://www.authorscourtwithme.blogspot.co.uk

Glenn T Langohr - Ex-con to Best Seller Author Life Story Book Interview

Interview Highlight 

 

I'm honored and thrilled to be interviewing Glenn Langohr author of Roll Call, Upon Release From Prison, Race Riot, Lock Up Diaries, Gladiator, Underdog, Prison Riot and Pelican Bay Riot, on I Am Darmie Orem and Authors' Curtilage with Darmie Orem.

Welcome Langohr.

“Thank you, Darmie.”

Langohr, 42, has spent 10 1/2. Years -   approximately a quarter of his life - in prison, the result of drug - related convictions which has evoked his desire to write and write and write some more about the story of his life after he found God and a calling as a writer.

The salvation found well-built author ran away at 12. By 15, he was selling pot supplied to him by Mexican Smuggler. By 18 he was serving his first hold in jail. When he got out he resumed dealing drugs, this time he became one of the busiest amphetamine dealers in South Orange County and also became addict.

Langohr in all has written eight books. He has been invited to speak before criminal justice classes at colleges.

His most recent book Underdog, a crime thriller true story opened with: Sergeant Torrez crowding the convicts’ cell door with a smirk on his face with six IGI Gooners behind him.

Glenn as the character Bj in the book said, they called the inmate Gang Investigators Gooners because they wore similar uniforms to the regular prison guards and had additional black stitching on their shoulders and chest that resembled tattoos to signify they were in charge of deciphering; who the gangsters were, usually was based on their tattoos...

Using the experiences of one's life and transforming them into fiction can be a great challenge. Langohr, how were you able to pull this off?

“I use the true colors of life and paint on a fictional landscape to protect the innocent and the not so innocent. “

From the opening of Underdog one could see that the story is tight and compelling. Did you have some sort of writing courses during your years behind bars?

“No. That is what we need to do as a society. Help prisoners get instructional writing guides and more learning power. What I did is pray and read the Bible every day. I also read everything else I could get my hands on. God answered my prayers and led me to write. Out of the blue, I got a letter from a Pastor by the name of David Hocking from the church, Hope For Today. From that point on I communicated with him and he sent me information on how to publish books and make movies. That lit a fire of encouragement inside of me and I kept on writing with new vigor.”

Obviously, you consider your life as some big book and ain't ashamed to go on talking about it. Why did you use life as novels?

“I wanted to change the destructive path I was on. When I ran away from a divorced family at the age of 12, I was hurt emotionally and had to find a way to soothe the pain. The streets and the drug world was an exciting distraction at first but always ends with prison, insanity or a coffin. I will use a quote from my novel Roll Call to make the point. "Sow a bad thought and reap an action. Sow an action and reap a habit. Sow a habit and reap a character. Sow a character and reap a destiny." I wanted to open up people's eyes that God can turn any life around, even those that society has cast aside as the worst of the worst. It all starts with changing your thoughts.”

When did you first get down events in your life on the paper? Did you start by keeping a journal or simply started writing it as a book?

“I started writing from a prison cell in solitary confinement with the hope that I could write a novel about the drug war that would turn into a movie or TV series. I woke up at 4 AM and wrote sporadically all day and night. ”

How did you act when it occurred to you that you could turn your life experiences into books? Or was it somebody that opened your eyes that you could do that?

“After a year of writing I saw the light. I knew the content I was writing about was destined to be read and understood. I got excited and started pacing the length of the cell back and forth and it helped me think even deeper.”

What's the central conflict of the novel Underdog?

“In California and other prisons in the U.S, prison tattoos on inmates are being used as evidence to classify prisoners to solitary confinement where they don't get to see the sun ever again. While I was in prison the Criminal Justice system sent way to many people to prison for drug crimes. That filled the prisons up to double their capacities. It made prison a more violent place and a bigger breeding ground for gangs. It was harder and harder to keep the peace and disputes arose over who could use things like tables, work out bars and showers. More and more riots happened. I was involved in a few that I did everything I could to avoid. When I went to the hole, solitary confinement, I saw first hand how the prison was falsely labeling prisoners as bad influencers based on their tattoos. I published Underdog one day after a prisoner died in a hunger strike over the same issues. “

You've been quite creative in transforming your life experiences into books. Any tips for those willing to also put out their life stories?

“Write every day until you are waking up before everyone else. Write before you get distracted! Don't worry about it being perfect or you will never get started. Keep in mind that you have to develop conflict and characters early. Always remember that any script must have a beginning, middle and end. So break it into those pieces and it will come together eventually. Know that you have to rewrite the script many times so the first time don't hold back. You can cut pieces out later. Just do it.”

Is there any word of advice for strayed children doing drugs?

“Don't do it! God is so amazing and He made us in His image. Drugs are poison and pollute the brain and worse, they stain the very soul. You only have one brain, one soul and one body, treat yourself like a Holy temple for God. If you are a child who is lost, ask for help! Go to all the churches and boldly tell them your problems. If nobody is helping you, don't worry. God will! While you are suffering, look at it as an opportunity to help other people who are suffering and you won't be suffering as much!”

Now that you are reborn again into a clean path, what sort of man would you describe yourself?

“I used to have to work out for 4 hours a day to deal with life and feel good. I found a way better way. If you sing worship songs to the Lord you feel the same way and get even better looking at the same time! It's true; singing makes your cheek bones more beautiful. The older and wiser I get, the more I realize I need God to direct my path.”

Are there any life's failures which could make you go back to your old ways?

“There is no way! I'm still hyper sensitive and all the same pains and temptations still exist, but I don't want to lose this connection I have with God. The Bible has proven itself to be the Holy Word of God by how many prophecies have been fulfilled. With that said, I believe the end is near and all this craziness is the last gasp of a fallen world. I want to be about God's Kingdom, not the devils.”

Please provide links to your Website/blog, your social media profiles, and links to purchase your book (s).

“Here are links to all my books in the U.S. in print and kindle”

Books in Print and in Kindle 

Kindle 

Books in Audio 

 Glenn's Friends' Facebook Page

Facebook Fan Page 

Glenn's Google Site 

His Wordpress Site 

Besides turning your life story into books, do you have plans of selling them to filmmakers for movie adaptation? I think you should contact FeatureWorld and see what they have to offer you if you've got any plans like that. Or you market all your stories at TVFilmRights

TV film rights is the Film, Television, and Publishing Industry's premiere online source for selling different kinds of scripts. There are always producers scouting movie ideas and screenplays on the site.

“Thanks for the links to sell the stories to the movies!”

Have you read through Glenn T Langohr interview? What do you think of him? Don't you think he's a product of grace everyone should reckon with? Feel free to submit questions for him at his email address and he will reply them promptly.

Once again Glenn, I'm honored and thrilled to have you stop by at my blogs.

“The pleasure is all my. Thank you, Darmie.”

PRISONERS FAMILIES VOICES UK: Author Glenn Langohr

PRISONERS FAMILIES VOICES UK: Author Glenn Langohr:                          THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER LIFE  Over the past few months, Author Glenn Langohr and I have corresponded and b... Whoo hoo! My friend Alison in the UK who writes for Prizon Widow hooked me up on her page! She is a great writer and friend. Check out her site and look for more of her stories when I post them. I can't wait to sell enough books and audio books to visit the UK and meet her!

Glenn Langohr is Speaking at The Salvation Army in LA Tonight About The Spiritual Nature of His Books

The Salvation Army is the worlds largest non profit and blesses people all over the world. I get to speak at the Pasadena Salvation Army to the men in Ms Victoria's class. I will be sure to post a video of it!

Here's a video of me speaking about Solitary confinement.

Glenn Langohr's New Youtube Video For His Drug War and Prison Books

Glenn Langohr's New Youtube Video For His Drug War and Prison Books. My good friend and video pro Steve put together another promotional video for my drug war and prison books. This one focuses on how God had taken my life at the lowest point and brought it to His good!

An Interview With Author Glenn Langohr About His Book Underdog, A True Crime Thriller of Prison Life

This interview came to me through Book2Buzz and will be on her site as well. 

1. So, Glenn obviously you get your inspiration from true facts and real life experiences, but do you draw from anything else to create great works like Underdog? I take the true colors of life and paint them into stories that mingle with my own experiences. As you know from reading Underdog, I have a lot of personal experience with prison. At 13 years old I started as a runaway from a broken home. I was hyper sensitive to a fallen world and had a chip on my shoulder. Looking back, it seems like I had a death wish. I wasn't cautious. It started with selling and smoking marijuana and business with the Mexican Mafia, Outlaw Bikers and street gangs became the evolution. The Criminal Justice system interrupted me and gave me over 10 years to research the insides of a bunch of different prisons. I also use the newspapers and other media to do my own research. I also stay in touch with a number of prisoners to keep my finger on the pulse inside. 

2. How much of the personal relationships like Damon and the dogs you rescued from the shelter are true? Damon shared a prison cell with me for a couple years. In California's state prisons, every race is separated by cell. That has brought more organization and structure. It has also caused race riots. Things like a lack of respect, drug debts, and alcohol are some of the toxic elements that explode into violence. I watched young inmates who for the most part were drug addicts or homeless, feel the pressure to join a gang. It bothered me. In prison, perception is reality and you either lead or get led. It is also a predatory environment so if the right people aren't leading it gets down right evil. I chose to lead and Damon was shoulder to shoulder with me and ready to go back to back against everyone if necessary. We chose diplomacy as much as possible. 

Rescuing dogs from the shelter came from my imagination. While locked in a cell for at times 23 plus hours a day for months at a time, you can't help but feel like a dog. During those times I imagined how good it would feel to go to a dog pound and let the dogs out of their cages. I imagined taking each one for a walk and petting them with a lot of love and encouragement so that when they had to go back in their cage they wouldn't be as depressed. When I got out of prison I did go to a couple of shelters but they wouldn't let me walk the dogs! They make you sign up for classes first. Finding somewhere to live and pay bills took over and I still haven't been able to do it yet. 

3. Do you have a system when you write? For example you must have a cup of coffee at your side while you sit in a triple cushioned chair with the phone off the hook? I started waking up at 4 am in prison to write before everyone else woke up. I still wake up early when I'm writing another book. I leave the phone on but if I get interrupted, or if I get stuck, I get up and pace. Pacing helps me think. When I get to sections where everything is flowing and the characters are coming to life off the pages, I run back to my laptop and type off and on all day and night. It feels incredible. I do drink a lot of coffee!

4. Do you ever still go on visits to Pelican bay? That part is fictional. I feel like I visit inmates there and other places through letters. I know what they are going through in intimate detail from being in solitary confinement. I have to get cleared to visit inmates first and it is a long process. I plan to do it as soon as possible. I also want to interview the inmates and help them see they can turn their lives around through God, writing and art. 

5. Glenn, is California's prison system still running the same way described in Underdog? The way the guards treat the inmates?

 --If yes, what can your readers and anyone else who cares to, help with the situation? Great question with a hard answer. To be totally fair to all the fantastic prison guards and workers in general let me say that Underdog paints the truth about a small percentage of them. With that said, it is even worse in some cases. It is so hard to explain what happens in there in an interview. This is why I write stories about it. The best part about my book Underdog, is at the end I get to use ex prison guard's testimony. I also get to use attorney's testimony who have fought for the abused inmates at Pelican Bay. So it isn't just me, a former inmate writing a story. As far as helping inmates, or fighting against the system that creates so many prisons, God bless you for caring. The first thing is to pray for more compassion. God will give the answers. 

6. If Underdog or anyone of your prison killers series were made into a movie....who would play BJ, Damon, or Stranger? Anyone else? My friend Steven Smith was with me in another prison and plays Giant in my book, Prison Riot, A True Story of Surviving a Gang War in Prison. When we were in the hole ( Administrative Segregation ), another way of saying solitary confinement, I told him I was going to make him a movie star. The guy has the looks and style of Christopher Walken but bigger. BJ, my character, would probably be played by Leonardo DiCaprio. Damon is so classic looking he has to play himself. Who else can play a prison character better then a long time former prisoner? For Stranger, same thing, a true Mexican gangster.  

7. Glenn are you working on anything else at the moment? After every book I get stuck in marketing mode. Each time I learn a little more and get blessed with more interviews. I'm about to be on the front page of the Orange County Register for speaking at the University of California Irvine to 100 students in a Criminal Justice Class about solitary confinement. I'm going to start on the 6th book of the Prison Killer series any day now. I'm really excited about it because now I narrate my own books as well and it is so fun to throw my voice into different characters as if I'm still in prison! 

8. Last buy not least! Thanks for answering some questions for Book2Buzz....is there anything else you would like to share? Thank you for taking the time to read and review Underdog and interviewing me! Take a look at the rest of my books in print, kindle and audio book and let me know which kindle book you want for free. I would also like to extend that same offer to all of your friends and followers who can't afford copies. Sharing is caring so please share this interview far and wide. Even more important, once in a while, say a prayer for all the prisoners and prison guards. God bless. 

Glenn Langohr's Prison Book Underdog is Getting Great Reviews!

Glenn Langohr's Prison Book Underdog is Getting Great Reviews! Here are pieces from the last two reviews for Underdog, A True Crime Thriller of Prison Life from David Bitco, a journalist, and CJR, a Criminal Justice Professor. All of Glenn Langohr's drug war and prison books are available in print, audio book to listen to like a movie and kindle to download to your tablet, computer or phone here~ http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00571NY5A

From CJR~ Academics studying prison should pay special attention to Glenn's work. The scholarship on prisons has increasingly turned to quantitative, aggregate statistical analysis to understand life behind bars. In doing so, this research has turned a blind eye to the nuances, norms, and subtle texture that characterize so much of prison social organization. Glenn's work, drawing upon his own experience, provides the rich detail of the governance institutions that guide inmates' daily life. Not everything that counts, can be counted, and this book illustrates that fact by providing the nuanced and detailed description that sociologists and criminologists have, for a variety of reasons, stopped providing. Famed sociologist Loïc Wacquant notes that "with social science deserting the scene, one is forced to turn to the writings of journalists and inmates to learn about everyday life in the cells and dungeons of America." In just this way, scholars studying incarceration, norms, and gangs should pay special attention to Underdog. It takes context-dependent, detailed studies to understand how inmate society functions and why it functions that way. This book does just that.

Here's a review from David Bitco Who better to speak to the horrors of a broken prison system than a former inmate? Glenn Langohr's inside view of life behind bars, in some of California's most brutal prison facilities, is an eye opening, day in the life view that no other author could provide. Through his eyes, we see the inner workings of a system that few of us ever see, and all of us dread.

His opening salvo is a hat-tip to my other cause celebre, the mistreatment of our most unfortunate of fur children - shelter animals. He uses this chapter though, as a lead-in to a story of brutal torture, inept administration, racism, deception, derision, divisiveness, prejudice and injustice. In Underdog, Langohr makes the point that the time spent breaking inmates could be much better spent, building - or rebuilding - Human beings.

The book - more a novella, really - takes the reader on a first person account of a prison riot, triggered, both by a power vacuum within the heavily segregated racial schema, and the rampant Heroin use that has become such an integral part of prison life. From there, we're made privy to a lockdown in the hole and the rabid need to classify all inmates as gang members. We're told in exacting detail, the methodology used by gang investigators to determine an individual's status - tattoos, self-identification, and the word of other prisoners. No burden of proof, no advocacy, no defense. You're branded a gang member and thrown into solitary without so much as a how do you do.

n Underdog, we're given first hand views of several California facilities ending with the infamous Pelican Bay, during the height of the hunger strike that made the name of that institution a household word - the Western Attica.

I found Langohr's voice to be open and brutally honest. His prose is neither stilted nor flowery. He writes about his subject in plain English, and peppers his work with the argot of the places that had so much impact on his life. Through Glenn, we learn the meaning of terms like off the shelf and IGI Gooners.

There is a marvelous first person tension to his writing. He's not an academic writing about the prison system for a college text book, he's a former prisoner and activist, writing about it for you and me.

All of Glenn Langohr's books are also available in audio to listen to a free sample first and found here~ http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00571NY5A

Glenn Langohr: The Path Into Solitary Confinement in Prison is Wide and the Path Out is Narrow

Glenn Langohr: The Path Into Solitary Confinement in Prison is Wide and the Path Out is Narrow. Glenn Langohr spent over 10 years in some of California's worst prisons on drug charges, with 4 years in solitary before turning it into research as a writer and expert on prison culture. For a complete list of his drug war and prison thrillers in audio go here- http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=glenn+langohr%27s+audio+books You can also download the books to your phone, tablet or computer in minutes for free and buy them in print as well here- http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00571NY5A

"The path into solitary confinement is wide for this reason. We have to many laws and send to many people to prison these days. It used to be, in the 1980's, that you only went to prison for murder, rape and robbery for the most part. Tough on crime political platforms and the drug war took over and now we are paying the price with a prison population that is exploding at the seams.

To expand further, now that we send people to prison for poverty crimes like stealing to survive "Petty theft", and not being able to pay for probationary costs, and for being addicted to drugs, we have an overburdened prison system that frankly, has a lot of mental issues. Imagine being in prison as a drug addict or an orphan of poverty, on a packed prison yard, where the inmates are comprised of every race, color and creed. Now mix in hundreds of different street gangs and some predators. But please don't forget to add in a percentage of outright mental cases. Add all of that up and you have a recipe for violence, the slippery slope into solitary. This is where you have to look deeper. As an inmate trying to fit in, and avoid that violence in a predatory environment, one of the easiest masks to put on is in the form of tattoos. Human beings often enter the prison system as innocent, young drug addicts, and out of fear, try to fit in by blasting their bodies with ink to look formidable. This is the main reason that the path out of solitary is narrow. Since the path into solitary confinement and the path out aren't regulated by a court of law, dubious evidence is used that has to do with certain tattoos meaning certain things. Other dubious evidence is second hand information from other prisoners, and the one that hurts my heart the most, self admission.

What most people don't understand is that as a new arrival to a prison, the prison administration has to run a check to clear the inmate for mainline population on the "Big Yard". During this process the inmate is under the microscope like an insect under a magnifying glass. He or she is asked questions like, 'What gang do you run with? What do they call you? Do you have any enemies?' These questions make a new inmate feel like joining a gang is the answer! A great percentage of lost misfits pass the tipping point and claim something. In my case being a White inmate they asked, 'Are you a peckerwood or skin head?' I saw the verbal bait on a hook and responded, can't I just be a White man without any affiliation? For those who take the bait and claim where they're from in the form of initials to their county like S.J.C, for San Juan Capistrano, just gave someone's pen the power to keep them self in solitary forever.

A Video Interview With Prison Author Glenn Langohr About Solitary Confinement in Prison

A Video Interview With Prison Author Glenn Langohr About Solitary Confinement in Prison. Glenn Langohr starting writing drug war and prison books from a cell in solitary confinement on drug charges. His book Underdog is about the Pelican Bay Hunger strike and shines a light on how prison administrators use dubious evidence against inmates to keep them in solitary forever. Check out Underdog in print for 7.99, or download it to your phone, tablet or computer for .99 cents while it's on sale, or listen to it in audio book on Amazon, iTunes or audible for a free sample here- http://tinyurl.com/underdogpelicanprison  

Glenn Langohr's Novel Roll Call, A True Crime Prison Story of Corruption and Redemption Got Another Great Review

Glenn Langohr's Novel Roll Call, A True Crime Prison Story of Corruption and Redemption Got Another Great Review. A Criminal Justice Professor Glenn met on facebook reviewed his drug war and prison novel. 

Here is part of the review that can be found here- http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0056C0LW4
"The author captures the little-known nuances of prison life in a vivid and accurate way. Not only do these motivate the story and dazzle the reader, they also testify to the author's experience and knowledge in California prisons. Only people who know the inside can describe the importance of paperwork, kites and gang politics in the way the author has..."

Roll Call, A True Crime Prison Story of Corruption and Redemption can be purchased in print for 16.97, kindle for 2.99 and audio book for 13.97. To check out Glenn Langohr's complete list of drug war and prison thrillers that include: Race Riot, Lock Up Diaries, Gladiator, Underdog and Prison Riot go here- http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00571NY5A

Who Are The Real Victims? By Glenn Langohr

Who Are The Real Victims? By Glenn Langohr. On my wordpress site I asked, "Who are the real criminals?" Now I'm changing the context to victims. Maybe it's more compassionate.

Yesterday I had the opportunity to speak to 20 kids on probation about drug addiction, gang life and prison time. When I got out of prison in 2008 on drug charges I started going to A.A. I met my sponsor, Mr. Phillip Doran and worked the 12 steps. I was selfish but real about it. While in prison in solitary confinement I spent 10 hours a day writing Roll Call, a drug war novel. Phillip Doran is a prolific writer and one of the ex producers of many hit TV shows. I told him I wanted him to help me take over Hollywood. Okay, I am a little vain. After working the steps, Phillip read all of my prison books and reviewed them. He also helps me with marketing.

Part of the 12 steps is giving back to newcomers in sobriety, hence we spoke to the kids in trouble at probation. While speaking to the kids I couldn't help but see them as victims. Kids from broken homes. Kids who are so hyper sensitive they become their own victims. Both Phillip and I shared our story of hope and inspiration. I told them, "God loves you." and gave out my number to one of the kids. We'll see if he calls and I get the chance to sponsor him.

Here's a review for my drug war novel Roll Call- A harrowing, down-and-dirty depiction--sometimes reminiscent of Steven Soderbergh's Traffic--of America's war on drugs, by former dealer and California artist Langohr. Locked up for a decade on drugs charges and immersed in both philosophical tomes and modern pulp thrillers, Langohr penned Roll Call, a light fictionalization of his troubled life. "I went from obsessively pacing my cell and wondering and worrying about how I was actually going to get my attorney to defend me, and how many years this sentence would bring," writes Langohr in an afterword, "to realizing that if I find a way to write what's in my head, I can find a way out of this hole I had put myself in!" Roll Call makes for exciting reading--gunplay, covert operations and backhanded deals abound. A vivid, clamorous account of the war on drugs. --Kirkus Discoveries, Nielsen Business Media, 770 Broadway, N.Y Yk

All of Glenn Langohr's drug war and prison thriller books are available on Amazon and other retail outlets in print, kindle and audio book. 

Author Glenn Langohr Spoke to Kids on Probation About How to Stay Sober and Out of Trouble

Author Glenn Langohr Spoke to Kids on Probation About How to Stay Sober and Out of Trouble. 

After serving 10 years in prison, with 4 years in solitary confinement, Glenn Langohr started http://www.lockdownpublishing.com and published 8 books about the drug war, gangs and prison life. 

During that time, Langohr started going to A.A. and got a sponsor by the name of Phillip Doran. Part of the 12 step program is being of service and speaking to the kids was a way to give back. 

Glenn Langohr’s New Book, Prison Riot: A True Story of Surviving a Gang War in Prison is Live on Amazon

Glenn Langohr’s New Book, Prison Riot: A True Story of Surviving a Gang War in Prison is Live on Amazon in print for 7.99, in kindle for 2.99 and in audio book for 6.99 here- http://www.amazon.com/Prison-Riot-Crime-Story-Surviving/dp/1480193933/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1351481968&sr=1-7&keywords=glenn+langohr

"My newest prison thriller is available in print! When the producer of Lock Up Abroad interviewed me, she asked, '“How much of your stories are real?”' I told her the truth, that I paint with the true colors of life on a fictional landscape."

 That just isn’t health for all of the involved parties. In my newest prison thriller, since it happened in the 1990′s, none of the places and names have been changed. Send it to someone in prison, or if you want to know what it is like for yourself, read and review it. Thanks! The picture included in this post is me helping my nephew fly!

All other drug war and prison books by Glenn Langohr can be found here- http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00571NY5A

Glenn Langohr's audio book, Underdog, Shines a Light on the Corrupt Prison Union

Glenn Langohr's audio book, Underdog, Shines a Light on the Corrupt Prison Union. Underdog in audio book

Here's a great review from American Media- It's B.J. fighting for his life again in the wretched California prison system.
In his latest novel, "Underdog," Glenn Langohr takes B.J. back into the dreaded Supermax at Pelican Bay, California's toughest prison. At first he's just fighting to survive, hopelessly outnumbered by Mexican and black gang members, but then he goes back to try and help his friend, still inside, ferociously battling to change the penal system.
And ex-con Langohr can describe the hell of life inside better than any other writer. His vivid passages on just surviving in prison describe a nightmare we'd rather not know about.
He compares the plight of abandoned dogs, locked and horribly mistreated in rows of cages in animal shelters, to California prison inmates, locked and abused in the same cages.
Not a book for the faint of heart. We who sleep peacefully in our beds at night, unaware of the savagery going on behind prison walls, can only thankfully say: "There, but for the grace of God, go I." John South, American Media

More then the review, Underdog is about shining a light on a California Prison Union that is out of control and at times corrupt. Check it out, share it, review it and lets fight for the Underdog. 

To read all of Glenn Langohr's drug war and prison thrillers check out the links or go to Amazon. 

Old prison photo of me and characters in my books.

Old prison photo. God is so good to get me from there to here! Half the characters, including me, are in my prison thrillers on Amazon found here-http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00571NY5A Download them to your phone or any computer for .99 cents and spread the word. My books shine a light on corruption and are full of redemption!

I'm the one in the top row on the right without any tattoos. Blitz is in a couple of my prison thrillers and is in the top row. Damon, also known as Sir Rott is in all of my books and is in the top row. That's what he gets for being in my cell for a couple of years and having a bullet shaped head.

Here's a review from my first novel Roll Call. "A harrowing, down-and-dirty depiction--sometimes reminiscent of Steven Soderbergh's Traffic--of America's war on drugs, by former dealer and California artist Langohr. Locked up for a decade on drugs charges and immersed in both philosophical tomes and modern pulp thrillers, Langohr penned Roll Call, a light fictionalization of his troubled life. "I went from obsessively pacing my cell and wondering and worrying about how I was actually going to get my attorney to defend me, and how many years this sentence would bring," writes Langohr in an afterword, "to realizing that if I find a way to write what's in my head, I can find a way out of this hole I had put myself in!" Roll Call makes for exciting reading--gunplay, covert operations and backhanded deals abound. A vivid, clamorous account of the war on drugs." --Kirkus Discoveries, Nielsen Business Media, 770 Broadway, N.Y Yk

Here's the blurb for Roll Call by Glenn Langohr Number #1 Best Seller. Roll Call is a story with a cast of characters that include Mexican drug cartels, southern California street gangs and Hell's Angels all fighting for their piece of the drug culture. In the middle of it all, B.J. is hell bent for destruction until he realizes his destiny in the nick of time.
Add a good detective squeezed out of the loop by an overzealous narcotic detective; a robust prison union trying to call the shots; a handful of drug criminals trying to find their conscience and you have the perfect recipe for a revolutionary uprising, bound by blood, all leaving the reader wondering, who are the real criminals?  

I got another great review for Race Riot!

Race Riot is the first in the prison thriller series. I have taken experiences from over 10 years in prison on drug charges, with 4 of those years in solitary, and turned it into books. I'm hoping, ( my definition of hoping is expectantly waiting ) these books get turned into movies and hit TV shows. Here's another review for Race Riot. Out of 33 reviews it has a 4.2 rating, not bad. Here's a link to all of my thrillers on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00571NY5A

Very important book on the California Prison Sys! This is The real deal. If you want to know what prison is like, go no further., October 8, 2012

This review is from: Race Riot, A SHOCKING, 
Inside Look at Prison Life (Prison Killers- Book 1) 
(Kindle Edition)

This is a very important piece of literature. This is also an important historical document on the prison system. This current look into the prison system is written by Glenn, who actually lived this! You will never read another prison book like this as it is told from the man who actually went through these experiences. This is a story of survival in a society so strange, so alien, and so mad that you can't believe this stuff actually goes down like it does.... Yet, it is real!
Breathtaking, gut wrenching, nail biting, and downright awesome. Buy this book now if you want to know what prison is like or send it to a loved one who may be going to prison to help understand what it is like.