Sam Bankman-Fried Struggles To Come To Grips With Reality As He Details His Prison Life In His Memoir

Sam Bankman-Fried, is determined to make his story known.

Bankman-Fried, who is currently serving his 25-year sentence at the Brooklyn's notorious Metropolitan Detention Centre is writing his memoir, starting with his life behind bars.

Sam Bankman-Fried determined to make his story known

Forbes has received three chapters of Sam Bankman-Fried's so-called memoir via email from his father Joe Bankman, who has gone through great lengths to hire a Forbes contributor to publish the contents of his son's diary.

While it is unknown why the Bankman family is so determined to make Sam Bankman-Fried's memoir known, but we know for sure that it's not monetary driven.

But his writing is nothing short of fascinating...

SBF complaining about trivial stuff

Many of the chapters in his diary focus on rather banal topics such as his efforts to get a pillow. In one of his entries, Bankman-Fried wrote

"What the actual F$%#, we're not allowed to have pillows? Are we allowed to sleep?"

In the same entry, he also complains at length about the lack of pillow or a stuffed animal that has led him to have back pains.

In another entry, he wrote about how his cellmates, a person he calls Harry, who is a loud and muscular homophobe who reminds Bankman-Fried of Freddie Mercury.

Bankman-Fried writes that Harry and many of his other cellmates spend much of their time watching sports and betting on games.

Bankman-Fried even detailed one of his interesting conversations with Harry

"One day, Harry came to me with a new betting strategy he would bet $100. If he lost, he would bet $250, and then $600, etc until he won, and eventually he would win, so he was almost certainly going to make money doing it."

An outsider observing the prison life

What was remarkable was how Bankman-Fried often writes in a third person perspective about the events that are happening around him.

In his diary, he classifies his fellow inmates into several categories: those who have seemingly given up on life, and those that are indignant of the way the society has treated them. Of which Bankman-Fried relates to the latter.

Bankman-Fried also observes the widespread abuse of a drug called deuce among inmates, though he says he isn't a user.

Bankman-Fried describes that this drug is often smuggled into prison and soaked into an ordinary looking paper and smoked by the inmates.