Our victories were few, but each victory made up for the losses before it. It was an adrenaline rush to win. We had to deal with some prisoners who suddenly wanted to shake their bars about everything. They’d say, “Man, his cinnamon roll is bigger than mine” or “I only got one piece of bread and he got two.” I had to talk to those prisoners and make them understand that not every problem meant you have to go through the most extreme form of protest to get it resolved. Sometimes you can do other things. If a man got gassed, even if it was just pepper spray in his cell, it affected the whole
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