The Boo! Game

About the Book

Handsome, blond, muscular Paul Sanger had been to prison twice before for stealing TransAms. Because he violently defended himself when he was repeatedly raped in jail by gangs of Blacks and Latinos, he wound up both times at Florida’s most infamous prison, Union Correctional Institution, at Raiford. Now he was here for the third time, and again he had to defend himself. The Black Playboys syndicate had claimed him and branded him with their tattoos. This time he was prepared to kill himself before he would let them put their little black bunny tattoo on his face and again force him to work as a prison prostitute.

Cute little sixteen-year-old Ruben Cataldo had been tried and convicted as an adult in South Florida for drug crimes. He also wound up at the Department of Corrections Mental Health Intensive Care Unit at UCI after he slashed his wrists at a South Florida minimum security prison. When the UCI Playboys saw him, they knew he was a money maker. They let him know right away that if he wanted to live, his body belonged to them.

There is a real but unacknowledged set of dynamics that permits inmates to control most aspects of life in the prison milieu. Prison administrators do little to protect inmates’ lives. The traditional law enforcement mentality holds that inmates generally are a lower form of life. They do not deserve to have honest officers put their own safety at risk to protect inmates from each other.

Medical and psychiatric personnel and other ancillary workers such as school teachers who have come to work in prisons in recent decades have been perceived by the old guard as interlopers who have brought bothersome liberal attitudes into a situation where they do nothing but make trouble. Correctional officers see these “helping” professionals as defenders of inmates. Most of the officers tell you their job is to punish the criminal scumbags the courts have sent to them, and they resent the presence of the medical and educational people who interfere.

This story is closely based on two real case histories. Sexual slavery is a reality of prison life in America just as it is in countries we might consider less civilized. It is racially based and extremely cruel. It is often fatal. The inmates who perpetrate it call it the Boo! Game. If a white boy plays the game and plays it well, he wins the prize. If he refuses, he loses the prize. The prize is his life.

THE BOO! GAME is a Reality Novel, meaning that only the names have been changed to protect the legal rights of both the guilty and the innocent. The incidents portrayed did happen in real life. And real death. It is a companion novel to THE S IN JU$TICE, another Reality Novel based on an actual UCI case history.

The language used in the dialogs are authentic. If you are delicate about coarse language or about violence or about explicit homosexuality, or if your political correctness will not permit you to entertain truths about racial hatred and violence that is not only permitted but actually encouraged by prison officials, you might want to skip these books. But if you want to know the truth about what happens to the All-American white boy next door when he goes to jail, then these Reality Novels have what you’re looking for.

About the Author

Now in full retirement, Jim Sauls lives in a mountain community in Western North Carolina and writes about his intelligence career on six continents. He has four children and four grandchildren. He also maintains contact with the family mining business he started in California in 1993 and vacations at his lodge above Lake Tahoe.