Who is seth ferranti

However, he had success out of prison. With the help of his now-wife, who he married in prison. He opened his own publishing company. Additionally, he had a thriving journalism career. This week, Sean V. Bradley, CSP, and L. Williams go on the run with the former outlaw, Seth Ferranti. As well as how he faked his death, and later wrote for Vice Magazine. Finally, they talk about his relationship with White Boy Rick and how he wrote and produced the Netflix documentary, White Boy.

This lifestyle led him to serve 21 years in Prison. However, his story really begins during and after his prison sentence. While in jail he opened his publishing house, Gorilla Convict. Most notably after prison, he wrote and produced the documentary White Boy.

Currently, he is working on a project called Night Life. It follows a pastor who sets out to deter violence in the most dangerous area in St. He got roped into drugs at the age of By the age of 17, he was supplying marijuana and LSD to 15 colleges in five states. When he inevitably was arrested, he was facing a year sentence in jail. With this in mind, he planned to fake his suicide and go on the run.

He began with poems published in various fanzines and branched out into covering intramural sports, mainly basketball, on the prison yard. The former felon is quick to point out that his wife, Diane, whom he met in St. Louis six months before he went to prison, while running marijuana from Dallas to St.

Louis, is the driving force behind the publishing company and website. Ferranti wrote on a typewriter from inside the prison; he mailed out manuscripts, which Diane edited and converted to Word docs. They discussed edits through the mail, sending letters back and forth. Sometimes the subjects he covered in the articles he was writing for magazines and websites, such as the drug trade, cigarette trade and cell phones in prison, got him sent to the hole. Ferranti believes every prisoner should have the opportunity to pursue an education.

Not because of the content of the books, but because prisoners are allowed to have only five books in their property at any given time, he says. When I met Ferranti, he was eight weeks out of prison and on his first weekend pass from the halfway house. His future goals are to keep writing and to move into documentary filmmaking. Who better to recommend the best reads on prison than someone who lived it?. New book chronicles the almost-forgotten life of a fearsome dock boss in the Irish Mob.

Watching sports in prison? I think he is holed up at a relative's or at a friend's. Ferranti was on the run from to after facing nonviolent drug trafficking charges.

With unlimited access to criminals and their stories, Ferranti started crafting raw portrayals of prison life and crack-era gangsters. Discovering a passion and talent for writing Ferranti also studied the trade earning an associates, bachelors and masters degree while in prison. People with resources can hide out forever. I was paranoid. You think there is a cop around every corner, that everybody is looking for you.

And there is much more scrutiny on him. Brian has been missing for over three weeks after returning home alone from a cross-country trip that he started with his girlfriend, Gabby Petito, whose body was discovered in a remote area at the Bridger-Teton National Forest in Wyoming.