Prison Pandemonium

Teddy Bear

Teddy "Teddy Bear" Ashley was sick of being locked away. The only reason he was in prison was because he had been caught with a bag of coke in his car, which wasn't even his. No one believed that of course, but it was true. Someone had planted the drugs, and he had suspicions about who it was.
              It could have been his best friend, who nearing the time of his incarceration, seemed to have a lot of animosity and bitterness towards Teddy over his promotion at the business company that they both worked at. Teddy knew that this friend always messed with the wrong crowd, so it could have been her.
               Teddy had always despised people in authority, so Rush rubbed him the wrong way constantly. The smug little bastard ran everything, and it was unfair. He had ruined so many peoples lives, him and that asshole Nestor, who got off on the torment he gave to others.
                Teddy had only been locked away for 2 years so far, out of a planned 8. During his time in the Brooklyn Falls penitentiary, he had seen people come and go, and a lot left. Not because of the end of their sentence, but because they were murdered.
                One time some kid ratted out Rush's drug smuggling operation, and in return Nestor got a funnel from the kitchen and poured boiling hot water down the kid's throat. He died in agonizing pain, and he was only eighteen years old. Nestor would talk to his friends within Rush's posse, and he would talk about how horny it made him to kill. To look into the victims eyes and see the sheer anguish and to see the life leave them.
                 Most of Rush's posse were nothing but sadistic psychopaths. Rush was the leader, with Nestor being his right hand man. There was also many more, at least 25 in total. Teddy didn't know all their names, and he didn't care to. Hell, he didn't even know who all was a part of his group. That's what made Rush so dangerous. Talk shit about him in front of the wrong people, they'll have your head on a stick.
               Nigel Holt was a member of Rush's posse, and he seemed to be the more sane one of the bunch. He was a lot more calculated, and he knew how to manipulate people. His torment on others was in a mental capacity instead of a physical one. If Nestor was Rush's right hand man, Holt was his left.
              There were a few others in the posse, such as Jimenez, Blakey & Barr. He didn't know their first names, because they went strictly by a last name basis. They weren't as bad as Nestor & Holt, but they were the ears of the operation, amongst dozens of others. They simply reported back to Rush, who then spread the word to his minions to do his dirty work.
               Paranoia had gone rampant throughout the prison, and everyone knew that freedom was potentially on the horizon. They would just have to survive another week in prison, seemed easy enough. Most of them forgot about the fact that they would be permitted weapons and allowed to commit any crimes they wanted. They would be lucky to survive the first 24 hours, let alone a week, especially with Rush and his minions running the male side of the prison.
Teddy had no clue about the female side of the prison, but he assumed there was a similar hierarchy.

There was one area that Teddy had found all thanks to Charlie. Charlie was a nut case that everyone seemed to avoid, because he would pop a cap in your ass and then call it his "divine right." However, one night, when Teddy had been in the same bunk as Charlie, Charlie had gotten up in the middle of the night. Curious, Teddy followed him.
Charlie went into the janitor's closet and shut the door behind him. He didn't come out for awhile. So, Teddy went and opened the door up. Charlie was nowhere to be found. That was when Teddy saw it. A secret door, hidden underneath a shelf in the closet. He only noticed it because the shelf was moved so that Charlie could come back out when it was time.
It was a crawl space underneath the prison. Teddy wondered if anyone else besides him & Charlie knew about this. Teddy quickly shut the door and left before Charlie noticed him.
It all seemed sketchy to Teddy. What prison would have a crawl space easily accessible to the prisoners? Maybe they thought they had sealed it off? Who knew? The officers in the prison weren't the brightest bulbs in the shed. Sharpest tools, whatever term fit in the moment. Point being, they were dumb as fuck in Teddy's eyes.