In the hat

Dannie Martin went to the toughest writing school on the planet - jail. Now, he writes to tell us stories from that world he left behind, the hard but somehow brutally honest world of the career criminal. Martin offers the story of Vernon Coy, a pimp and small-time bank robber who's living the easy life with two girls and a rooster. Of course, the easy life never stays easy for long. What Vern doesn't know is that he's in the hat. There's a little ritual unique prison gangs. When someone crosses your gang, his name gets put in the hat with a bunch of blank slips of paper. Whoever draws the…