Packing a lot of punches

Danger was never far away in prison. To protect themselves from gangsters, even while being transported to court, Tommy Gun Oosthuizen and his cellmates agreed to band together. “I told them ‘I’ll stand up for you guys, because I’m a fighter, but once I throw the first punch you’ve got to know that all of you guys are fighting’ . . . once they see you’re a group and these guys are ready to fight, they back off.”