Picture Morris, the main character in the book, picture him in our mind-shiny gold tooth, slim figure, brown eyes, and brown skin, in a subjective struggle with himself to gain quantity and quality of purpose and identify as a person in pursuit of humanity. Inside the Stockade: A Cautionary Tale is about a dude indoctrinated from the hood and living outside the law with no markers on the way he chose to live. When to his own ways he was thinking and searching for something to believe in. It was the way a street-level life was supposed to be, exactly the way an imbalanced social system of government designed it. It is a tale of heroin addiction, street crime and jails, and illegal behavior involving police malfunction and misconduct as a reflection of an urban American streetlife experience.