i knew who he was before i started coming to see him at the prison. and i liked him then. because we were friends first. and that s what made us bond as lovers even better. and it was special because we didn t make love until we got married. that s something that i never did before. so i was happy about that too. what are you going to do for two days? we are going to have fun. do a lot of exercise, jumping jacks and stuff like that. liar. golden is escorted across the prison yard to the family visitation center. his long-awaited reunion with his wife is just moments away. marvelous. extremely excited.
in here you don t have no friends. because you can laugh and you can sit up and talk, and play cards and dominoes and whatnot, but the minute something happen to you they all go the other direction. leave you to die. and they got a lot of people up here call each other loved ones, i love you, i got love for you, you are my home boy. but the minute you do something they don t like they ll cut you. that s what pelican bay is about. but we have met many openly gay inmates who have little or no fear about being who they are. yeah, they call me amy. why? i chose that name. i live my life as a girl. i have always felt like i was a girl. when we met matthew campbell he was serving 12 years for armed robbery and assault at kentucky state penitentiary. but his troubles began much earlier. first time i ve went to jail, i was 15 years old, at ferndale elementary school, and pretty much downhill from here.
he comes once a month. buy dry food. and medicine and toys and stuff like that. some guys work hard at their jobs to earn their money. sometimes, 60, 70, 80, take everything they ve got. my baby. i wish you cats would get together and get rid of some of the rats we got running around the yards. don t want any rats, man. the people rats. now you leave the little bitty mice alone. we found an even more unlikely bond at california state prison corcoran. like anything. treat it with love and respect. it will treat you with love and respect back. we were out on the yard shooting. i looked over and saw these guys petting something. at first i thought it was a kitten.
when we met keith precious mason at holman correctional facility in alabama he was carrying on a sexual relationship with inmate marquez nobles. when i first met him. i told one of the other girls he has pretty feet. and you know what i mean. i m a feet man. i m into the feet. i like feet. as far as it is concerned it is very, very frustrating and uncomfortable. especially if that s something you really want to do. you have to try to beat the police and mants. basically it is done quick and quietly. for prison officials, sex is a complicated topic. i don t think you really crack down on homosexuality. you can t stop it. you can prevent it from happening openly. if the relationship is not causing a problem, then we don t do anything with that. if they are not openly having sex. you can have a relationship that doesn t have sex involved.
the guy. so i didn t think it was fair for him to spend his life in prison. they come to me and said if i pled guilty to first degree murder they would plea-bargain him to a lesser time. he plea-bargained to 125 years. to me that s still excessive but it s better than a life sentence. he gets to go home, where i will probably end up dying in prison. how does that make you feel? makes me feel like a piece of [ bleep ] really, [ bleep ], my only brother. and because of because of something we did, and we did it together. he takes responsibility for his own actions. i don t know, man, it makes me feel like like i m that tall because i let it happen. i think in my mind he is here because of me. so i carry the guilt around every day. he was 18. he turned 18 in county jail. he had a whole life ahead of him. could have been a pro football player or rock star, whatever he wanted to be. i feel in my mind and heart i ruined that for him.