S2E4 With Friends Like These
6/8/202633 min
THE BLURB: While, on the one hand prison is NOT the place you go to make friends, once you're there, you need to have (and be able to rely on) a tight circle of friends just to survive. In the last episode, John introduced you to some of that tight circle. In this episode, John dives a little deeper into those relationships plus a few others that were essential parts of his prison experience. But, you can't befriend killers, conmen and pathological liars without having your own humanity ding-ed. John begins to grow oblivious of how dead-eyed he's becoming.
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John Kiriakou· Host0:56
I hope I've been able to convey to this point how important having a real circle of friends is in prison. And I haven't finished telling you about my circle of friends. Not necessarily circle of confidants, but circle of friends. Because in prison, you befriend or you allow yourself to be befriended by the people who work best at that moment. You don't have to marry them. You don't have to be lifelong friends like I am with Mark. But in that given moment, you can count on them as friends.