John Hallman

My name is John Steven Hallman, a prisoner and a writer at Pelican Bay State Prison in the state of California. I am a student of the PEN Prison Writing Program and it was here at Pelican Bay where I was inspired to write “Casine the Joint.”

Please feel free to contact me for more information about my writing at this address:

John Steven Hallman #C89835
D7-SHU PBSP, PO Box 7500
Crescent City, CA 95532.


Articles by John Hallman

Prison and Justice Writing
Tuesday April 6

Casine the Joint

We all seem to want something for nothing. Yet the convicts’ code decrees that we do not steal from each other. It’s an “honor amongst thieves” theme that almost everyone in prison adheres to. However, the code has a double meaning. Though it states the obvious by openly ruling out ourselves from preying on each