And felony offenders who have completed their prison sentences are often sent back to jail when they cannot pay fees and fines they owe because they could not earn money while locked up…. The right to counsel is rarely brought up.” —The New York Times, July 13, 2012, “Return of the Debtors’ Prisons.” 1. JANUARY “I JUST REMEMBER HOW much it hurt when they put the tracker in there. ‘This isn’t going to hurt,’ he says. Fuck that! It hurt! But at least they used a local …” “You don’t need a local, you’re numb all over now,” Whore Tense said, poising the homemade scalpel over Rudy’s ass. “The fuck I am! A little drunk and slightly opiated—ow! Motherfucker, Whore, that hurts!” Rudy was lying naked face down on the bunk; Whore Tense had just started cutting into the fat of Rudy’s ass-cheek. “Stop being a baby,” she said. “Actually I’m almost there already … won’t have to cut into muscle … sometimes they put it too deep … used to be easy to get ’em out when they put ’em right under the skin … my first one was in my forearm here, what an ugly bump they made on your skin … I still have a scar …”
