Publisher's Synopsis
"Cornbread Mafia, The Quest For Freedom, A Prisoner's Memoir" is author, Joe Keith Bickett's third book in his Cornbread Mafia book series. After becoming the largest domestic marijuana cartel in U.S. History, the federal government convicted Bickett and many more Kentucky men and women and sentenced them to harsh sentences for their roles as members of the famed Cornbread Mafia. While many have heard the stories of the Cornbread Mafia's origins, its rise to fame and ultimate downfall, "Quest For Freedom" dives deep into the violent and murky world of the federal prison system where Bickett and many more were incarcerated for decades. Cornbread Mafia, The Quest For Freedom is a true and untold story of mass incarceration of marijuana offenders and others during the "War on Drugs" in the 1990s and beyond. Bickett details an unforgiving justice system as he and many other cannabis and drug offenders struggle for their freedom while in the "belly of the beast." After being convicted in the early 1990s as a member of the Cornbread Mafia, Bickett was sentenced to serve twenty-five, (25) years in federal prison along with his brother Jimmy who was sentenced to twenty (20) years. At the time, Johnny Boone, "The Godfather of Grass" was serving a twenty (20) year sentence for his role in the Cornbread Mafia. Bobby Joe Shewmaker was sentenced to thirty (30) years, Tommy Lee to twenty-one (21) years and many more members incarcerated for the cultivation and distribution of marijuana. Bickett's first-hand account, Cornbread Mafia, The Quest For Freedom, chronicles the members of the Cornbread Mafia's new lives behind the imposing and restricted walls of federal prison as they struggle-by any means possible--for that ultimate goal of freedom--once again.
