protective custody, more than likely slammed down the entire time. while his public confession may have put gaines life in danger, it also generated some welcome attention from the outside world. apparently, i m writing my fiancee. you have a fiancee? yeah. is this someone you knew before you were incarcerated? no. i met her since i was in here. the interview i did with southern poverty law center. she read that and dropped me a couple postcards of encouragement commending the changes i made so we ve been pen pals for almost two years now and been together for about the last year. she s beautiful. she has a good heart, smart, funny, loves me to death, takes good care of me. so, i couldn t ask for more. and not to mention, she s willing to stand by me and do the time with me, so i m pretty blessed. coming up after the 36 hours they take the baby from you and you just
from his head to his feet. by the time we met him, maxi had had a few recent brushes with death. the last time he fell into a coma and was rushed to an outside hospital. we was in church and one of the officers came in and was like, pizzaman died. so, you know, we all mourned and, you know we it was crazy. we like, man, well, comes to find out that there was a god in the hospital with his name that died, not him. so when he came back, he come back strutting and we like, oh, man. you know. i was in better shape. we hugging and everything. i know that he s not the only person in here that needs to be treated medically but i live with him. this is the guy that i got to take in the shower and make sure he gets bathed properly and make sure he don t pee on the walls,
sleep train your ticket to a better night s sleep death isn t sneaking up on john maxi. it warns him every day that it s coming. the swelling, the nausea, the chronic pain, all reminders that his 60-year sentence at indiana state prison is coming to a premature end.
can t give me no treatments. why? that s what the chief doctor said because if they cut me open the cancer will spread and kill me faster. so what does this peen for you? a death sentence. even with death looming over him, maxi found comfort in the support and camaraderie of his fellow inmate. him being around us, i feel like this is what gives him hope. even if he knows he s dying, he knows that there s not much the medical people can do. more than anyone else, joseph monigan formed a special bond with maxi. like maxi he s also serving 60 years for murder and when the prison hired him as his caregiver he discovered it was much more than just a job. when i care about somebody i care about them hard. i really care about him. god answered my prayer and gave me the ability to clean him up
my female co-defendant had problems with her roommate. he had stolen some money from her and had called up a few of her friends, me being one of them, and we went over there to intimidate the guy into giving her money back. the intention was to have three burly skinheads going in there, boots on, white power clothing, just looking mean. and one is carrying a baseball bat and one is carrying a shotgun, the other a knife. i mean, i had a what were you carrying? i was carrying a shotgun. that s intimidating. but it didn t stop at intimidation. within minutes, one of the skinheads had beaten the man to death with the baseball bat. he was probably dead after the first hit. the first hit was to his head and just it was just nasty, vicious, bloody, brutal. while gaines admits he was a party to the crime, he claims it was one of his co-defendants who actually killed the victim. he and his lawyer have been fighting to get the charges reduced for years now.