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“KINGDOM OF INMATES”: It’s all a Game Introduction Victor Hassine wrote a clear and true representation of the prison system in Life Without Parole: Living in Prison Today about his life in prison. He was educated and trained in law and has been in prison for 17 years. This is a story of the inner dealing and conditions of living behind bars. I will discuss his beginnings at Graterford State Prison, the punishments, the escapisms used to forget about where one is behind bars, the violence that is prevalent, the subcultures, conflicts between the old inmates and the new inmates, the underground economy, gangs, prison politics, race relations, friendships, interviews of inmates by Hassine and prison rape. Getting used to the beginnings Victor Hassine was sent to Graterford State Prison in Pennsylvania on June 4, 1981. There were many things to get used to it turns out in prison, unlike the outside world, and he was surprised at how he felt going in. The noise was the thing that shocked him in the beginning of his stay in Graterford. He states that the noise was an “echo that never ended”(6). His first impression of the men in Graterford was unlike anything he had experienced before, none of the inma