Prison rape

[Jac de Molay]

3 squares a day, books to read, computers to play on, t.v. to wathc, gym equipment, basketball courts... Sounds like an All-Inclusive getaway to me...

Dont forget shiatsu and flower arranging. I'm sure Bubba and Spike think they reside in a veritable Shangri-La.

Prison Rape. Even the worst of the worst deserve some vestige of dignity and human rights.

[Shi Huangdi]

Prisons should be tough and miserable places for prisoners to live there lives. But they should also be controlled environments and the misery should be handed out by the Prison officials, not fellow inmates.

Allowing prison rape and prisoner dominating each other lessens the punishment for tougher and stronger inmates.

[chequita guevara]

"An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind." Martin Luther King.

[Shi Huangdi]

"A witty quote proves nothing" - Voltaire

[Japher]

Che, what's your bright idea then? Put 'm drugs and let 'em go free? House arrest at a Sheraton? Would you sleep a lot better at night knowing that convicted felons, murderers, and rapist are walking the streets because you showed compasion?

[st_swithin]

EVERYONE belongs in GenPop. Prison inmates truly know the meaning of the word JUSTICE, unlike those who use it as a catch-phrase or protective mantra, profaning its true meaning to suit their own purposes.

I do not agree with what you have to say, and I will defend to the death my right to dispute it.

BTW, gun control is a FARCE. If you want my gun, you have my permission to come and try to take it away. However, it won't be as easy as you think. I made sure I got a lot of ammo and a bunch of backups.

Come on over! Here's my address:

14006 Palawan Way #324
Marina del Rey, CA 90292

FREE INVITATION TO ANYONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO TRY TO TAKE MY GUNS AWAY FROM ME.

[chequita guevara]

Wow, gee, there's a jump. I don't support the idiotic policies that "get tough on crime" has produced, so obviously I must support letting prisoners walk free. You are a regular tower of intellect.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by st_swithin
14006 Palawan Way #324
Marina del Rey, CA 90292

[Japher]

Che successfully dodges another question!

in actuality, getting someone to listen to complaints about the abuse of their rights fall on deaf ears, like yours

Didn't I already point out that I think they forfeited their rights by violating someone elses, and being convicted?

Prisons should be tough and miserable places for prisoners to live there lives. But they should also be controlled environments and the misery should be handed out by the Prison officials, not fellow inmates.

The smartes thing I have heard all day (though it is still early)

[Proteus_MST]

Originally posted by Japher
Che, what's your bright idea then? Put 'm drugs and let 'em go free? House arrest at a Sheraton? Would you sleep a lot better at night knowing that convicted felons, murderers, and rapist are walking the streets because you showed compasion?

Maybe a good Beginning would be to have enough Prisons.
If your Prisons are overcrowded as Che states, build more Prisons.

Another thing would be to separate People.
Not just Males and Females.
No. You should have separate Prisons for Youth and maybe also enough High Security Prisons for those people who commited murder or other acts of Violence. It could also be useful to separate those who have a sentence for Life from those who just stay a limited time.

Best would also be if every inmate had a Single Occupation Cell and wouldn´t be locked together with several other people into the same room.

I think those things would really help to reduce Rapes in Prison. But of course they cost money

[Sarxis]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
That doesn't mean that we don't trivialize it and laugh about it.

So true. It is this kind of sweeping cultural insensitivity that allowed what happened in the Catholic church.

We all laughed for years at the practiced abstinence of priests, and chuckled at all the jokes of gay clergymen and pedaphiles.

[korn469]

Originally posted by Japher

Reform doesn't occur in prison, networking does. As well as drug abuse, gay sex, cable t.v. watching.

3 squares a day, books to read, computers to play on, t.v. to wathc, gym equipment, basketball courts... Sounds like an All-Inclusive getaway to me...

the prison system doesn't work, because "grounding" someone, or sending them to their room does nothing. This does not make them responsible for their actions because the punishment does not suit the crime.

eye for an eye I say...

Convicted of stealing? Cut off a hand
Convicted of killing? Cut off a head

Would really throw the 3 strikes law right out the window...

Well I have actually been in jail before, and my best friend was in prison for five years. Neither of those places were the all-inclusive get aways you speak of. For me jail wasn't the worst place ever, but it wasn't a pleasant place to be in. There was cable tv, and at one point some prisoners in my cell block paid one of the trustees to rent a PS2 and some DVDs he smuggled into the jail. So one of the nights I was there we watched Blade 2, Ghost of Mars, Queen of the Damned, High Crimes, and Freddy got fingered. The tv was on the rest of the time. That is the good aspects.

As far as the bad goes, it was ungodly hot because there wasn't any air conditioning, the entire cell block consisted of three 5x6 cells and a 15x6 common area. There were nine of us in there most of the time, and at one point there was ten people in there. Each cell had a toilet, and there was a toilet in the common area, there was also a single shower in the common area that had two temperatures, scalding hot in the summer, and freezing cold in the winter. I took a shower in it, and it was too hot to actually let the water get on me so I had to splash it on me using my hands. The bottom of the shower was black with mold. I'm a vegetarian, and each of the three meals had a meat based main item, so I had to trade that for side items. The food was really bad. There was no room to really move around, and certainly no room to conduct any form of physical activity. There was a single book in the cellblock, and it was something about a barbarian king of Mars from the fifties.

Breakfast was served at 5:30, lunch was served at 11:30, and dinner was served at like 6:30. You miss a meal, you are just SOL. At around 11pm the guards would bring around everyone medication, and they would give any prisoners who wanted it some kind of Benadryl pill or something, I'm not sure what it was. Basically alot of the prisoners were addicted to them, and one of the prisoners basically threatened me if I didn't give him my pill, but they didn't have one for me. Otherwise everyone was nice and civil to me. The daily routine was to fall asleep after breakfast, and sleep to lunch, then get up eat lunch, and lay around to dinner, then eat, and clean, then stay up till breakfast. The guards allowed the prisoners to follow this routine, although according to the state the jail was violating rules by doing this, and lights out was supposed to be at 11, and lights on at 5:30 with breakfast. They also knew about the PS2, and the fact that once a week the jailers would goto the store for the prisoners and buy them (with the prisoners money) what they needed. Apparently the state considered soda (coke, pepsi, etc) to be contraband, and the jail was going to have to crack down on all of that. They didn't want to because they knew it was just going to make their lives harder, and the jail was fairly shorthanded. There may have been three guards on duty at night, and there were probably 150 or more prisoners there.

One of the people in the cell with me (he was sleeping in the common area on a little mat as was I) had a tooth ache, and they said it would take at least a week before they could get approval for him to goto the dentist if not longer. Maybe that sounds like a wonderful place to be but it isn't. Prison is better in some ways, yet much much worse in others. My friend basically had to struggle with gangs, tough guys, and other violent inmates on a daily basis. My best friend's husband works in a maximum security prison (as does her mom and stepfather...we live in a rural area where there are lots of prisons) and he deals with people on a daily basis who've committed murder and other violent crimes. Guys who are doing 530 years really don't care what they do to guards, or other prisoners.

EDIT: read FP's post lol

[Whaleboy]

Blade 2 rules.

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by korn469


Well I have actually been in jail before

You see what happens boys and girls? The American prison system strips people of their ability to use paragraph breaks! When will this inhuman practice end?

Seriously though, thank God somebody with genuine experience of prison turned up to quash all these "prisons are holiday camps" morons.

[korn469]

Originally posted by FrustratedPoet


You see what happens boys and girls? The American prison system strips people of their ability to use paragraph breaks! When will this inhuman practice end?

Seriously though, thank God somebody with genuine experience of prison turned up to quash all these "prisons are holiday camps" morons.

it is true though that prisoners love to watch cops, and americas greatest police chases...