BLACKRIDGE: FORGED FROM FIRE
Thirty plus inmates scatter away from us, some laughing, cheering, and weirdly, some placing bets on who will come out victorious.
Prison fights are far more chaotic and entertaining than the boring basketball games the guards pretend to supervise.
The man attacking me is huge. He's built like a forbidden tower, neck thick as a tree trunk. Tattooed fighting tiger on his back and throat.
They call him Rico Alvarez, one of the obedient dogs of the notorious Mateo Cruz's gang, street named the Kingsman gang in the prison.
And apparently today I'm his target.
"Let's see how big you talk," he whispers, circling me. His homemade knife glitters in the noon day sun.
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