Glenn Langohr Speaks Out About the California Prison Hunger Strike

Glenn Langohr Speaks Out About the California Prison Hunger Strike.

The Prisons I lived in for 10 years couldn't contain me! I wrote books that shine a light on life behind bars. Check out FREE samples of the Audio Books here~ http://amzn.to/19dNrsm All my books are available in Print or Kindle for immediate download. God Bless You!

Glenn Langohr Prison Gangland Documentary

Best Selling Prison Author Glenn Langohr spent 10 years in prison on drug charges and started writing in solitary confinement and is now interviewing ex prisoners to shine a light on prison conditions. This interview is with "Benny" from L.A. who has spent over 15 years in prison. To find Glenn Langohr's Books in Print and Kindle go here~ http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00571NY5A
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Glenn Langohr's Video Trailer For His Drug War and Prison Novel Roll Call, A True Story Crime Prison Story of Corruption and Redemption

Glenn Langohr's Video Trailer For His Drug War and Prison Novel Roll Call, A True Story Crime Prison Story of Corruption and Redemption. Available in print for 16.99, kindle for 2.99 and audio book for 13.97 all found on Amazon here- http://amzn.to/nxQt3A http://

Glenn Langohr's New Audio Book: Prison Riot, A True Story of Surviving a Gang War in Prison, is Available on Amazon, iTunes and Audible

Glenn Langohr's New Audio Book: Prison Riot, A True Story of Surviving a Gang War in Prison, is Available on Amazon, iTunes and Audible. Glenn Langohr wrote the book based on his prison time and narrated it himself. To check it out for a free sample or purchase go here- http://amzn.to/XByCbW

"I started writing books about prison life and the drug war to purge myself and find a way to stay away from it." Writes Glenn about why he started writing. "Now, the more I write, the less I change the character's names."

Prison Riot, A True Story of Surviving a Gang War in Prison is the 5th book in the series and is available in print for 9.99 and kindle for 2.99 on Amazon and other retail outlets found here- http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00571NY5A

Glenn Langohr Spent 4 Years In Solitary Confinement on Drug Charges Where He Started Writing Novels

Glenn Langohr Spent 4 Years In Solitary Confinement on Drug Charges Where He Started Writing Novels. With nothing else to do in a prison cell for 22 hours a day, Glenn Langohr wrote drug war and prison books. For a complete list of his books in print, kindle and audio book to listen to like a movie, go here- http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00571NY5A

Glenn Langohr started solitary confinement in the county jail in the modules where inmates only come out of there cells for 2 hours a day. In prison he was sent to solitary for riots and investigations. He states, "It is very hard to avoid any violence in prison where the isn't much rehabilitation. People with mental issues, drug and alcohol issues interact with gangs and people just trying to survive and the ingredients are toxic. In prison every inch of space is decided over and often fought over, like who can use which tables, showers, space on the yard, work out bars etc."

The first novel Glenn Langohr published when he got out of prison in 2008 was Roll Call, A True Crime Prison Story of Corruption and Redemption. Kirkus Discoveries Nielson Media related Langohr's novel to the movie Traffic along with other accolades. Glenn Langohr has since published 7 other books that are selling well and getting great reviews. See his complete list on Amazon in print, kindle and audio book.

Glenn Langohr's New Book: Prison Riot, A True Story of Surviving a Gang War in Prison, is Available in Print, Audio Book and Kindle

Glenn Langohr's New Book: Prison Riot, A True Story of Surviving a Gang War in Prison, is Available in Print, Audio Book and Kindle. 

Ever wonder what a prison riot is like? B.J, a white inmate, serving time on drug charges, gets caught up in a Mexican gang war. The northern California Mexicans demand that the southern California Mexicans keep their shirts on to cover up their gangland tattoos. The prison explodes into chaos as each building erupts in deadly violence. For B.J, the war isn't over when he and over a hundred inmates get housed in solitary confinement, it's just beginning. For getting involved, he's labeled a southern Mexican ganster.

The hardcore action unfolds like a movie in this bare bones thriller of true crime. 

Glenn Langohr spent over 10 years in some of the roughest California prisons on drug charges. During this period he wrote novels to turn it into a blessing. His vision is to help other inmates get instructional writing guides and change their lives.

Glenn Langohr's Book Prison Riot Focuses on Gang Violence

Glenn Langohr's Book Prison Riot Focuses on Gang Violence. It is available in print and kindle here- http://www.amazon.com/Prison-Riot-Crime-Story-Surviving/dp/1480193933/ref=sr_1_8_title_0_main?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1351916309&sr=1-8&keywords=glenn+langohr%27s+books

Ever wonder what a prison riot is like? B.J, a white inmate, serving time on drug charges, gets caught up in a Mexican gang war. The northern California Mexicans demand that the southern California Mexicans keep their shirts on to cover up their gangland tattoos. The prison explodes into chaos as each building erupts in deadly violence. For B.J, the war isn't over when he and over a hundred inmates get housed in solitary confinement, it's just beginning. For getting involved, he's labeled a southern Mexican ganster.

The hardcore action unfolds like a movie in this bare bones thriller of true crime. 

California Prison Watch: Five Demands of Pelican Bay State Prison SHU Priso...

California Prison Watch: Five Demands of Pelican Bay State Prison SHU Priso...: Prisoners in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at Pelican Bay State Prison (California) are going on an indefinite hunger strike as of July 1... Great website!

Glenn Langohr's New Audio Book Lock Up Diaries is Available on Amazon, iTunes and Audible

Glenn Langohr's New Audio Book Lock Up Diaries is Available on Amazon, iTunes and Audible. Found here-  http://www.amazon.com/Lock-Up-Diaries-Inside-Killers/dp/B009UX5NYG/ref=sr_1_3_title_0_main?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1351788099&sr=1-3&keywords=glenn+langohr+audio+books

In Lock Up Diaries, Glenn Langohr shows that in California the prison system is breeding bigger criminals by locking up low level drug offenders.

Glenn Langohr Spoke to 97 Criminal Justice Students at UC Irvine about His Books, Prison Time and Solitary Confinement

Glenn Langohr Spoke to 97 Criminal Justice Students at UC Irvine about His Books, Prison Time and Solitary Confinement

The students in Professor Keramet's class were required to read an excerpt from Glenn's book Underdog. In Underdog, Glenn compares dogs in a cage with humans in the same cages and points out that our nation has more compassion for the dogs. Glenn also shows how the process to get in to solitary and out of solitary is in the hands of prison officials in California, not courts.

"I got to speak to 97 Criminal Justice college kids at UC Irvine this afternoon. It was so awesome! They read an excerpt from my book Underdog and loved it. My friend captured it all on video for the Orange County Register! At the end I hand

ed out 13 books to students and joked that maybe the Professor would give them extra credit for leaving me a review on Amazon. I think I'm a natural speaker. I hope I don't become a politician! Somebody kill me if that starts to happen. On another note my new audio book I narrated is going off! Here it is to buy"-http://www.amazon.com/Lock-Up-Diaries-Inside-Killers/dp/B009UX5NYG/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1351653853&sr=8-3&keywords=glenn+langohr+audio+books

Glenn Langohr: In Prison on Drug Charges for 10 Years, Now Author Of 8 Books: Roll Call, Upon Release and the Prison Killer Series. http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00571NY5A In his drug war novel Roll Call, Glenn Langohr illustrates how the U.S. has made drugs more desirable by making them taboo, which has increased the demand for them, throwing gasoline on Mexican cartel wars, along with breeding gangs in California's prisons. “For the last 6 years of my incarceration I woke up at 4 AM every morning to write, before the on-rush of prison life took over, to finish my drug war novel Roll Call.” States Langohr, “I felt compelled to write, to open the eyes of the community, that the drug war is a spiritual war.” Roll Call, available in print and e-book retailers, follows Glenn Langohr’s path portrayed as B.J.; from being raised by the Angelic mother he is torn from, to becoming a drug dealer, always trying to find a way out of the dark life of an addict. In another thread the path of three large Mexican cartel members have a hungry quest to obtain U.S. money and delves into how the Sinaloa and Michoacán cartels commit thousands of murders and deceptions for control of the drug trade. The cartel paths inevitably meet B.J. in Orange County, California leading to a roller coaster ride of excitement through drug smuggling cartels, to street gangs, to outlaw bikers, all trying to get their piece of the action. Add a good detective squeezed out of the loop by an overzealous narcotic detective; a robust prison union trying to call the shots; and a handful of other drug criminals trying to hold on to 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? Kirkus Discoveries Nielson Media Review “A Harrowing down-and-dirty depiction of the U.S. War on Drugs, sometimes reminiscent of Soderbergh’s Traffic, by former dealer, California artist Langohr.” Upon Release from prison, Glenn Langohr finished the sequel to Roll Call, Upon Release, along with A California Pelican Bay Prison Story, Lock Up Diaries and Gladiator. He started Lockdownpublishing.com  to help other prisoners turn their lives around through writing and art. See his u-tube video. Or for his print books go here http://www.amazon.com/UNDERDOG-True-Crime-Thriller-Prison/dp/148013466X/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1351268918&sr=1-4&keywords=glenn+langohr

Best Selling Crime Author Glenn Langohr to Speak at UC Irvine About Solitary Confinement in Prison

Glenn Langohr spent over 10 years in prison on drug charges, with 4 of those years in solitary confinement. While locked down and writing novels, David Hocking, a Pastor from Hope For Today started writing him. David Hocking helped Glenn with instructional publishing guides that helped him further his writing career from behind bars. When released in 2008, Glenn Langohr published his 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!" A vivid, clamorous account of the war on drugs. --Kirkus Discoveries, Nielsen Business Media, 770 Broadway, N.Y Yk

Glenn Langohr has published 7 more books and has been interviewed on the radio 4 times. On Oct. 30 at 3 pm he is speaking to 100 students in Professor Keramet's Criminal Justice class about solitary confinement and how it intersects with the 8th Amendment as it related to cruel and unusual punishment.

K is for Kechell: Roll Call by Glenn Langohr

K is for Kechell: Roll Call by Glenn Langohr: Book Blurb: "Whacks you aside the head with the force of a baseball bat. Langohr's incredible description of his fight for survival in pr...

Another cool blog has one of my novels on it. Roll Call is now number 1 in the U.S. kindle store in Crime/Thriller. Get it while it's only .99 cents or 16.99 in print. 

Niki's book Corner: Roll Call by Glenn Langohr

Niki's book Corner: Roll Call by Glenn Langohr: Book Description Publication Date:   July 26, 2012 "Whacks you aside the head with the force of a baseball bat. Langohr's inc...

Patricia T. Macias, Author: Roll Call by Glenn Langohr

Patricia T. Macias, Author: Roll Call by Glenn Langohr: Today we have Author Glenn Langohr's amazing interview. He has written awesome books that introduce you to another world. This is the wor...

God is calling us to the Bible

Doesn't it seem these days that words hold so little meaning? When all around us is a whirlwind of chaos and trying to find the meaning of things gets more and more clouded. At times I can sense the desperation. I can see the good in people trying to make sense of it. Fighting against what they are seeing, what they are knowing, that something is very wrong and getting worse.

I spent over 10 years in prison on drug charges and started writing novels. Before I became a run-away 13 year old, I was brought up a Christian and learned enough about God through the Bible to know with all my heart, mind and soul there are no more powerful words then those in the Bible.

As a run-away kid I rebelled against the lack of control and pain of feeling abandoned. I know that my life in the drug war couldn't be stopped without a community, a church, or the love from any other kind of flock to intervene. That leads me to what gives the power to words.

I believe it's the spirit. In Ephesians 6-12 Paul writes about the power behind everything. "For We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." Knowing the story of how Paul was an elite Jew who persecuted Christians before his conversion by God, at just the right time to shape the future, I find a little peace and comfort.

Another Bible scripture that brings home my point is in Matthew 17-20. "With a little faith, we can move mountains." This is where the Spirit comes in. No matter how much I believe in something, or how hard I try, I can't change things in a big way like moving a mountain any time soon. But God can and will if He is sought. So if I can get my spirit to line up closer to His, than maybe I don't have to try so hard.

With all of this said, I am going through a difficult time in my marriage and am separated from a lot I know I needed as that 13 year old run-away. My mind tries to make sense of it and I don't even trust my thoughts. In the news everywhere I see examples of how Democracy is hypocrisy and perception is reality. I see the truth divided into so many pieces that nothing seems unified any more. So I seek God and ask, Father bless my thoughts with what you want me to write about in my next book and in all other things so I know your Spirit is guiding me and I'm in your hand.

Check out this review for my drug war novel Roll Call

http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00571NY5A Roll Call, A SHOCKING True Prison Story ( Prison Killers )]] Available in print or kindle. Written by a former prisoner, 20 Five star reviews, "Whacks you aside the head with the force of a baseball bat. Langohr's incredible description of his fight for survival in prison has 'screenplay' written all over it." John South, American Media

Check out all of my other drug war and prison thrillers on my Amazon page. Somehow, my novella Race Riot is number 1 in the U.K again! It's only .99 cents so pick up a copy and help me get it closer to number 1 in the U.S!

The beautiful thing in the U.K is that with so many people buying Race Riot ( almost 700 this month! ) I am seeing a surge in sales for the follow up in the series, Lock Up Diaries. The next one in the series, Gladiator is also surging. To me this means that enough people are enjoying Race Riot to buy the other ones at 2.99! If you haven't read the fourth book of the series, Underdog, it is the best. I use an analogy with dogs abandoned in cages at a shelter to inmates in similar cages. It also shines a light on corruption in U.S. prisons in relation to solitary confinement.

Pelican Bay: The Hunger Strike and The Government's Response ( Article from my associate )

On July 1st 2011, Californian prison inmates commenced a three week long hunger strike. The prisoners, who were predominantly, but not exclusively, incarcerated within Pelican Bay State Prison, struck in protest of the torturous and inhumane conditions that those incarcerated within California's Department of Correction and Rehabilitation (CDCR) prison isolation units were forced to endure.

The Prisoner’s Demands The strikers developed five core demands. First, the prisoners requested that group punishments be eliminated and individual accountability be practiced. This, they asserted, would prevent prison officers from unfairly punishing groups of rule abiding prisoners for misdemeanours committed by an individual prisoner.

Second, prisoners demanded the abolition of debriefing policies and the modification of gang status criteria. They claimed that the system, as it stood, allowed for the classification (and consequent isolation), of prisoners as active gang members. Further, they asserted that, as prisoners were only able to downgrade their gang member status by becoming informants, prisoners were required to risk their safety in order to leave isolation.

Third, prisoners demanded that CDCR policies be made compliant with the recommendations of the US Commission on Safety and Abuse in Prisons (2006) in relation to the ending of an individual's long term solitary confinement. They highlighted that this bipartisan commission had recommended that segregation of prisoners be made a ‘last resort’ and suggested that this recommendation was not being implemented within the state of California. In support of their assertion, it was highlighted that, as of May 18, 2011, California kept 3,259 prisoners in Secure Housing Units (SHUs) as well as hundreds more in administrative segregation awaiting SHU cells.
Fourth, prisoners requested the provision of adequate and nutritious food. Prisoners reported that they were provided with food which was inadequate both in terms of quality and quantity. They raised concerns that there were no procedures in place to check that their food provision complied with prison stands.

Finally, prisoners demanded that the provision of constructive programs and privileges be expanded for indefinite SHU inmates. Prisoners claimed that they were routinely denied chances to gain access to educational opportunities. They asserted that this was the case even when they were willing to fund their own distance learning programs. Further, they claimed that they were regularly denied access to warm clothing, telephones and watch caps.

End of the Strike
On 21st July 2011, prisoners agreed to end their hunger strike. It was reported that this agreement was reached following a number of small concessions by the CDCR which related to prisoners’ possessions and educational opportunities. In addition, the CDCR promised a comprehensive review relating to ‘gang management and secure housing’. The CDCR press release stated:
‘We will now seek to stabilize operations for all inmates and continue our work to improve the safety and security of our prison system state wide’.
Though many concluded that the concessions achieved by the prisoners were small, the level of press coverage and international support that strikers achieved is noteworthy. During the course of the strike, demonstration and solidarity messages emerged from the US, Canada, Australia and Turkey. As per Molly Porzig, spokesperson for Critical Resistance:
‘ What is really significant about this is that people are risking their own lives in joining this action’
‘What the challenge is for supporters outside the prison is that we need to by tirelessly working at, in a very urgent way, taking the risks that we can to match the courage of these hunger strikers’.

The Subsequent CDCR Report
In March 2012, the CDCR released its plan pertaining to the methodology to be applied moving forward when placing or withdrawing prisoners from isolation in SHUs. The report, which focuses on gang management within California’s prisons, states that improved provisions within secure housing units will be achieved by adopting uniform certification of criminal gangs by the Operation Community Shield (OCS) into Security Threat Groups (STGs), identifying and validating criminal gang affiliates, providing a Step Down Program (SDP) for prisoners placed in isolation and providing a comprehensive evaluation of prisoner behaviour.
Further, the report states a commitment to make use of the step down process and use privileges to promote good behaviour, in particular when that good behaviour constitutes a disengagement in gang related activities. The CDCR will also conduct debriefing for offenders who choose to disassociate themselves from criminal gangs.

Criticisms of the Report
Two key criticisms have been levied at the report. First, Attorney Charles Carbone believes that the changes may, conversely, result in increased numbers of prisoners being housed in isolation. This, he argues, is because the new plan serves to widen the definition of ‘gang’ to include street gangs or any groups of more than two inmates who are believed to pose a risk to security within the prison. Such inmates, he points out, could then be eligible for isolation within SHUs.
Another criticism, which transcends this report, is the concern that the inhumane conditions which have been inherent within California’s prisons have, historically, been justified amongst prison staff, who consider inmates as ‘the lowest of the low’. In many instances, however, SHU inmates have been incarcerated for non-violent, often drug related crimes. Those supplying illegal drugs, or those operating illegal unlicensed pharmacies which allow individuals to buy dangerous prescription only drugs without medical authorization, could be incarcerated in an SHU, should they be identified as a gang member'.
Rose Wilkinson is a freelance human rights and politics writer from London, England. She travelled extensively in Asia in her twenties and was lucky enough to meet several dedicated campaigners during her travels. Many of these meetings inspire her today.