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NO ENTRY
While SAG-AFTRA advocates for its members’ rights, it should consider how unfairly it—and productions—treat extras who are shut out of joining SAG in the first place.
William Mersey is a writer and blogger who's been published in the New York Times, the New York Daily News and New York Magazine, as well as Gallery, Oui, and Screw Magazines. From January 3 to November 18 of 2019, Mersey was imprisoned in the Metropolitan Correction Center for tax fraud, where he spent a significant amount of time in the company of Paul Manafort and Jeffrey Epstein. Read more of his thoughts on prison life, the BOP, and MCC specifically here.
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FOXES GUARDING THE HEN HOUSE
Two new scandals have rocked the already beleaguered Federal Bureau of Prisons. Corrupt and predatory officers are a big part of the problem.
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STILL RENT-FREE
The former CFO of the Trump Organization will have to hope the increasingly deadly jail keeps him good and isolated.
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THE HONEYMOON IS OVER
Trump’s guy is back talking with his old pal Sean Hannity and promoting a new book about how his shit doesn’t stink. But his farts sure did, writes his former cellmate.
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LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND INFAMOUS
I’d suffered through the flatulence and lumberjack snoring of cellmate Paul Manafort before I ended up spending many hours alone with Jeffrey Epstein as his inmate companion.
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A HUMAN WAREHOUSE
It was a shithole of the first order and an embarrassment to both the United States of America and the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
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‘RUN BY MORONS’
Having spent time locked up with Epstein and Paul Manafort in Manhattan let me tell you: There’s a reason that a federal judge just said those jails are “run by morons.”
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GAGGED
That makes at least two convicts who the government didn't want talking to the media. I doubt that Cohen and I are alone in that distinction.
CLOSE QUARTERS
Good luck keeping six feet away—or finding any hand sanitizer.
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THIS ISN’T THE RITZ
When he recovers from his panic attack, he’ll have plenty to worry about.