Columbus and Johnny Cash
| April 4th, 2008
This is Columbus. He works at the ACCRC, and is one of the more competent and charismatic fellows that have come through the place. Yesterday, while working from the MCRC, Columbus and Steve drove up from the ACCRC to do a pick up. We all had lunch together, and Leslie put on one of the newest albums donated to the MCRC: Johnny Cash Live at San Quentin.
Suddenly, Columbus dropped a bomb on us: He was at that show. Well, he wasn’t allowed out to see the show: it was piped into his cell. Only the honor groups of well behaved prisoners was allowed to actually attend the show. But Columbus was still there, at San Quentin, in his cell when the show occured. Certainly was nice of the warden to pipe the show through to him.
I think Steve was a little jealous of our amazement at Columbus’ admission. Steve was at San Quentin too. But Steve was there when Metallica filmed a video there.
The both of them say that San Quentin prison is now more like a candycane sugarpop fairy tale land than the psychotic death sentence of a lock-up it was in the 70’s and 80’s.