Summary of Howard Marks's Mr Nice

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#1 I was released from El Reno prison in three weeks. I had been in prison for the last six and a half years for transporting beneficial herbs from one place to another.

#2 I was taken to a holding cell to await processing. I checked among the other prisoners where they were expecting to be transported to. I was not meant to be going to Oakdale, Louisiana, where criminal aliens near the end of their sentences were sent.

#3 I was arrested in Oklahoma City, and after a long wait at the airport, I was handed over to the United States Marshals. None of them looked like Wyatt Earp. They transport interstate property such as prisoners.

#4 I was processed at the prison, and then sent to Memphis. I was dechained, shaken down, fed, and given clothes that fit at least approximately. I was beginning to look forward to the various facilities that every federal prison has: tennis courts, jogging track, and library.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 13, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822515499

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#1

I was released from El Reno prison in three weeks. I had been in prison for the last six and a half years for transporting beneficial herbs from one place to another.

#2

I was taken to a holding cell to await processing. I checked among the other prisoners where they were expecting to be transported to. I was not meant to be going to Oakdale, Louisiana, where criminal aliens near the end of their sentences were sent.

#3

I was arrested in Oklahoma City, and after a long wait at the airport, I was handed over to the United States Marshals. None of them looked like Wyatt Earp. They transport interstate property such as prisoners.

#4

I was processed at the prison, and then sent to Memphis. I was dechained, shaken down, fed, and given clothes that fit at least approximately. I was beginning to look forward to the various facilities that every federal prison has: tennis courts, jogging track, and library.

#5

I was put in the Oakdale hole, which contained about forty cells. Everyone coming into the hole is showering under supervision in a cage, being searched, and given a pair of underpants, socks, fairy slippers, and a sterilized jump-suit.

#6

The Special Housing Units, or holes, were always kept at uncomfortable temperatures in case someone was there to be punished. The orderly in charge of the cells would bring me stamps and cigarettes, as well as any other contraband he could get his hands on.

#7

I was extradited to the United States in 1989. I was paroled by the United States Attorney General to satisfy the public’s interest in prosecuting, convicting, sentencing, and incarcerating me. I was not to be considered as having entered the United States legally.

#8

I had read all the relevant law in the law library of United States Penitentiary, Terre Haute. I knew that I could avoid all court proceedings by getting a passport and ticket within thirty days. I was half-way through being handcuffed when the foul-mouthed lieutenant came tearing along, yelling, Put that motherfucker back in his motherfucking cell.

#9

I was transferred to a prison a hundred yards away from where I was held, and I was dumped in another holding cell with eight other dumpees: an Egyptian, a Ghanaian, four Mexicans, and two Hondurans. The Mexican was right about the difficulty in seeing an Immigration Officer.

#10

I was released from prison on April 7, 2008. I had approximately one hundred dollars, a pair of shorts, nail-clippers, comb, toothbrush, alarm clock, papers confirming my release date of two weeks ago, a credit card I could use in prison vending-machines, and five books.

#11

The three of us were the only criminals left in the converted aeroplane hangar. We were taken to the gangway, where an Immigration Officer pointed us to climb the stairs. The Nigerian led the way, and Scoogsie followed and spat dramatically on American soil.

#12

I was flying to London, and I was nervous. I had spent the last six years in prison, and the British authorities could still charge me with marijuana and hashish importations. There are no statutes of limitation in British law.

#13

Craig Lovato, the special agent who had been in charge of getting me arrested, was still determined to do so. He would be bound to take my release as a personal failure and suffer extreme loss of face.

#14

I had a difficult time adjusting to school, and I decided to fall ill. I was bored with the classes, so I invented symptoms such as sore throat, dizziness, nausea, and headache. I was always flicking the mercury in the thermometer up instead of down.

#15

I had stopped scrapping and fighting, as I had lost the knack. I couldn’t stand physical contact with boys. The nurses had spoiled me.

#16

I began to become mischievous at school. I decided to become unpopular with the staff and popular with my classmates. I was scared of Albert Hancock, a tough kid from the next village, because I was wimpy and he was intimidating.

#17

I was able to spend my time drinking in pubs and taking out girls. I passed all ten subjects