Otis Gyrie
speaker
231 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 10 Jul
Otis Gyrie’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Bibles were like currency to the inmates, reading material to overcome boredom.
Pencils were not allowed in the cell blocks, so the men loved meeting with me to write journals.
They spent most of their time doodling ideas for tattoos.
The really sick ones, the mentals, as the guards cruelly referred to them, were not allowed into General Pop and looked forward to my visits.
Most of all, I learned how easy it was to get in and out of prison.
Not that I would have ever done it, but I marveled at the fact that, given the right inclination, a body could make a mint smuggling in cigarettes or booze stuffed into their socks.
I followed the same ritual every evening that I visited.
I'd park in the lot, walk past the trustees who swept the front steps.
Wow, did they ever stink!
And enter the facility.
The guards got to know me and grew comfortable with my visits.
They began by waving me through the detector without having to remove my boots or open my briefcase, and eventually started letting me avoid the security check altogether.
Next, I was allowed to bypass the desk and go directly behind a filing cabinet where I could retrieve my badge.
I wasn't permitted to take it outside the prison.
Then I'd get buzzed through an unremarkable metal door,
and walked down a long, unadorned hallway.
At the end of the hall was where the genuine security measures began.
The hallway terminated at another door, this one made of double layers of thick, cloudy, bulletproof glass, supported within a frame of four-inch-by-four-inch square steel tubes.
I would approach and stand under a camera mounted above the door, lifting both my face and the badge toward the camera in order for the guards inside to verify my identity.
Once done, the door would slide open, allowing me to step inside an airlock of sorts.
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