>This is the story of what I learned—about my fellow prisoners, the guards and administrators, and the system in which we operated. It is a cautionary tale of f

>This is the story of what I learned—about my fellow prisoners, the guards and administrators, and the system in which we operated. It is a cautionary tale of friendship and betrayal. It is a story of how politics prepared me—and didn’t—for prison, and how prison prepared me for life. This kind of perspective reminds me of how frequently leaders in large organizations have so many layers of buffer between what line-level employees do and what they hear on a regular basis, that, in the long run, nobody wins.