Prison rape

[DanielXY]

The biggest punishment in prison is the absence of females ... seriously ...

[st_swithin]

They are if you're a senator. Club Fed's not so bad, especially if you're in for computer hacking.

That's why you have to remember everyone you ever worked with, who might also be in the big house as well, and try to make sure you get them stuff whenever you can. It's called sharing what you have - the tenet of prison survival.

That's how I made it through - my brother was in for 2nd degree murder, so I made sure all the other guys watched out for him while he was in. I can't guarantee that nothing bad happened to him, because I'm pretty sure that bad stuff DID happen, but I hope he knew I was watching out for him, even though I couldn't see him or talk to him.

I sent him a lot of books, which I think he appreciated.

[Rasbelin]

Originally posted by Jac de Molay

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

Amen, brother.

When you wondered why Rodney got eight years, do read this again...

The authorities decided to make an example of Rodney. Even though only about $500 in damage was caused by the fire, they sentenced him to eight years in an adult prison.

Well, the authorities simply wanted to use him as a warning example, despite that wasn't effective and they did it in a bad manner. IMO a youth prison or somekind of work camp would have been better for him, plus not 8 years.

I think it would be far better if prisoners would be put into community service and work camps, rather than just having them sitting inside a prison. It doesn't mean community service or a work camp would mean lack of security. Giving them something useful to do would decrease violence and problems among prisoners.

[st_swithin]

chegitz guevara: Cut it out, I mean it!

[Dis]

woah! lefties are saying too many people are in prison.

well guess what, so many people are in prison because they break too many laws

I'll grant you the drug war is bull****, but it is the law. We should change drug laws so non-violent offenders should not go to prison.

[Japher]

I'll grant you the drug war is bull****, but it is the law. We should change drug laws so non-violent offenders should not go to prison.

You hit the nail on the head there Diss... The reason there are too many criminals is that there are too many laws...

[st_swithin]

Agreed. 8 years for weed?!? What kind of "justice" is that?

8 years for a hit-and-run? That sounds much more fair to me.

[Dis]

Originally posted by korn469


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

A lot of that is what it's like on a navy ship out at sea

[Atahualpa]

Originally posted by Dissident well guess what, so many people are in prison because they break too many laws

or maybe there are too many laws that it is impossible NOT to break one, except you are a couch-potato

[Imran Siddiqui]

Nothing wrong with being a couch potato .

[Dis]

It's very, very easy to go through life without committing a felony.

Even the most wild, alcoholic friends and aquaintences I knew in the navy never committed any more than a felony.

We've all done indecent exposure, public intoxication, disorderly conduct, but those aren't felonies.

[st_swithin]

Yeo, man, it's like rats on a sinking ship pack -rats have too much to carry.

The mice are the ones who are smart enough to just grab onto whatever floats.

"There is no animal so valiant as a Mouse." - Koong Fu Tze (in Latin, Confucius)

[St Leo]

Originally posted by Japher
Personally, I feel that once someone is accussed of a crime they no longer have any (well, very few) rights.

o_0 ?

Japher's a murderer and a child rapist! Kill the walking heartless stone! Kill it!

When a person decides to remove themselves from a system, then they are removed from the system... It's a terrible doublestandard that they are allowed to defy the law and then expect it to work in their favor once it suits them.

I don't give a Cthulhu's tentacle what they expect. I expect the judicial system to treat everyone the same. That's the only way laws can be even remotely fair. Justice must be blind, or else there is no Justice at all.

[Whaleboy]

We've all done indecent exposure, public intoxication, disorderly conduct

You're a sig machine Diss!!!

[Japher]

Japher's a murderer and a child rapist! Kill the walking heartless stone! Kill it!

If I intentionally did those things, then yes I should be killed...