Mistakes You Don’t Survive Twice in Prison

🔗 Save Yourself a Fight, Your Money, Your Job & a World of Trouble with The 40 Inside Rules I teach: https://ironjames.com I’m seventy now, and I spent twenty-nine years in federal high-security penitentiaries. In this video I count down fifteen small mistakes that carry a different weight inside, from number fifteen up to number one. A hand reaching toward another man’s tray, an empty seat at the wrong chow-hall table, a finger on the dayroom remote, an extra minute on the phone. Outside, nobody thinks twice about any of them. Inside, every one of them is read as a message about respect, debt, or loyalty, whether you meant it that way or not. The last three cover the heaviest ones: walking away when your people are fighting, checking in, and the snitch label. These are my experiences, not rules for every prison. Ask first. Pay first. Stand first.