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January 26, 2024 6 mins
When you're in prison some units are better to live in than others. Brick City Facemask recently spent two weeks in New Jersey State Prison's 7-Wing and he called into the podcast to tell us about his time there.
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That is Big City Faith NAS andJada State Prison. It's a winging and
Digit State prison called seven Wing isone of the oldest part of the prison
that was built in like the eighteenhundreds. Like going back there, seeing
all the cell all the old cellsmade out of bars everywhere, definitely looking
at evil on top of that retort. This is like a hole in the
wall that drops down and the snailcan make anybody throw up. Long story

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short, Seven Wing in the DigitState prison was condemned, but the prison
officials decided that it was okay touse seven Wing as a restrictive housing on
it mixed with inmates were different prisons. Now I was back there in locked
it for sixteen days and in thattwo weeks I saw a little bit of
everything. First and foremost majority ofthe nas they had any proper All they

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had was what they was given andbasically what they was wearing. What they
came back there with. This isbasically nothing like the regular prison on the
farm and whatever under closed they had. And that was it. Now,
when I got back there, itwas a frid I got back on a
Friday. It wasn't a man inthe room, it wasn't anything, and
the room was empty, it wassilky, and it wasn't nowhere to sleep

(01:08):
basically, so I told the officersthat I needed a map to sleep on.
So he told me to wait untilMonday. All the prisoners back there
found out what was going on,and they started to bang and kick and
nick lauds to basically help me getit mat because the cop didn't bring me
on. The cop refused to bringme a map until one day it was

(01:30):
Friday, so he told me basicallyto sleep on the floor and the old
dirty prisons there for two days.Now, Luckily, one of the prisoners
next door he happened to have anextra match, so he sent me a
mat over and that's how I gotsomething to sleep on. Now, that
was the first day. The nexttwo days a dude got stabbed through the

(01:53):
gate, and on top of that, somebody threw hot battery assing on him
and melted his stas all up.Now, this same dude, he didn't
leave itself a closer two weeks andI finally walked past and saw his face.
It looked like he was getting itlike it looked like it was getting
infected, like the skill was peelingand looked crazy, And I know for

(02:15):
sure no ceo, no nurses,didn't get any other retreatment. He just
was back there dealing with it.So a few days after that, a
dude was walking down the hall withlike a milk cart and full of human
shit, and he threw it onanother prisoner that was using using them like
the the jail phone to call hisfamily. What happened was they was arguing.

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One dude told the other dude andstuck his dick. So they was
waiting to get each other, butthe whole situation got worse when he threw
shit on him. They both hadlike a human shit fight, drawing out
of hech throwing it at each otherfor about twenty thirty minute, now a
whole damn units, not a agiant tilet. Then when they ran out
of shit to throw, they startedthrowing milks at each other, and like

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this went on for Like I said, this went on for at least like
a half an hour. Now thedude that through to him and shit.
First, he messed up when helocked like in the cell because the police
let the guy on the phone out. So now he's running back and forth
up and down the unit throwing everythingthat this dude that he could think of
mayonnaise, shampool, old pist thatwas sitting himself for a week. Now,

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the crazy part of all of thisis got the two cops are sitting
there watching the whole thing like amovie, but they wasn't expecting to happen.
Next, the dude got a blanket. He poured that bow which just
like a jail version of ajax,like a cleaning powder. He pulled it
on the blanket, set the wholeblanket on fire like, and the shit

(03:45):
went up. The flames. Nowwe smoked everywhere. You couldn't see nothing.
The worst part is the worst partis it wasn't any sprinklers, Like
when there's a fire, that's supposedaccording to the fire court, supposed to
be sprinklers to put the fire out. Wasn't any sprinklers. It wasn't evacuating
the stuff. The smoke down upand so everybody's coughing down from breathing in
the chemicals and out of nowhere.They called a cold police can't run it

(04:11):
down to Tim Riot again trying toput up put the fire out, So
they tell him the dude that setthe fire, get on the floor,
get on the floor get on thefloor. So one of the police actually
tackled him and took him down.So once he got on the ground,
they put the fire out and basicallywas all over him and they took him
out a handcuffs, but the smokewas still on the air for hours.
But three more things after that.A Mexican old if due some money,

(04:36):
like he bought he bought some drugsor something like that, and he couldn't
pay him. So they want tosee him about their money, and they
tried to talk him out of it. He tried to talk them out of
it, like she started laughing andstuff like that. He thought he thought
they was playing around. So theyheated up some hot barry as they melted
his face all up. He wason the phone talking to his mother,

(04:58):
So his mother she called the prison. She and she heard what was going
on. She heard him screaming,ah, So she called the prison while
they were still on the phone andforced him to put the Mexican and protect
the customer. Now that wasn't eventhe worst thing that happened back there.
It's two weeks that I was backthere. The worst thing that happened that
happened was it was a unit nextdoor to me. I think I was.

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I don't even want to stay wellnumber but long stay hit. The
union was next door to me,and some dudes found a way to run
into another prison to sell, likethey jammed the door. Whatever the case
for me to be, they foundthem way to get out. Now they
burnt his face and his back upto the point where he was unrecognizable.
Like it was riskmans that he gotraped too, But I don't even know

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how true that is. But whatI do though, is I heard him
scream theo ceo say thirty three,I need help for three days and nobody
can't help him. Three days Iheard. I heard this man over his
scream. Now the merse found himand she was doing her rounds, and
that changed everything. Like I heard, two cops got fired, one more

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puzzon was allowed to be out asa run unless they was cleaning the unit.
And all of this happened in sixteendays, So imagine what else happened
before I got there and after Ileft. In fact, they'd be like,
I've been out of lock that maybefor like a few months now,
like three months, four months.A god just killed herself back there,
some old white man. He was. They say, you had mental problems

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or something like that. But heput him, he put They put him
back there, and he found theway to hang itself. By the time
they found him, they couldn't evenget in the cell. The doors start
up, and he had put abag over his head and hung yourself from
the light in the cell. Sothat in itself was enough to show you,
like how crazy it was back there, the conditions that they were dealing with,
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