Reply With QuoteStill shakin' it Boss....
" I wish I could tell you that Andy fought the good fight, and the Sisters let him be. I wish I could tell you that - but prison is no fairy-tale world. He never said who did it, but we all knew. Things went on like that for awhile - prison life consists of routine, and then more routine. Every so often, Andy would show up with fresh bruises. The Sisters kept at him - sometimes he was able to fight 'em off, sometimes not. And that's how it went for Andy - that was his routine. I do believe those first two years were the worst for him, and I also believe that if things had gone on that way, this place would have got the best of him."Originally Posted by Soulman
Still shakin' it Boss....
Great movie. Haven't seen it for a while though.
No you can't, you don't just "end up in jail".
In USA, jails ends up in you!No you can't, you don't just "end up in jail".
Lets get 13th century prisons back, so that people live in as awfull conditions as they possible can imagine in prison, see if that helps on prisons being the best place to learn crime
Sarcasm aside , Norway has prisons that looks like nice hotel rooms , and we have , if i remember correctly a reoffending rate of 15% , while the US has something akin to 60% , of course , prison standards is just a small part of it , but its something to think about isnt it ? ..
The thing is that its the confinement thats supposed to be the punishment , not having a horrible time , but being confined and protected from the general society, and ive actually had the oppurtunity to ask a convicted murderer about this (who is serving under extremely lax rules at the moment) and he said that the real punishment is that the system decides everything for you, when you eat, when you sleep, when you work, who gets to visit you and how often and such.
Prisneyland, y'alllll! We got Doritos up in hurrr.
But seriously, this is no surprise to me. I know somebody who went to prison and has cell phone camera pictures of his daily life on his Facebook. Cell phones and drugs are easy to get into prisons. There's criminal rings outside of prisons that are on call and will run up to a prison fence and toss it over. They come up with some inventive ways of smuggling sh!t.
Here's some examples:
Bring back the chain gangs. Put'em to work doin road construction/maintenance, or rent them out to farmers to help in the fields...
Don't they do that in some states still? I agree they should be put to good use but then the ACLU will b1tch "ohhh, institutionalized slavery!11".
I know we can't do it here or else we are guilty of "violating their human rights"......
Looks like the only place inmates can "volunteer" to be on a chain gang is Arizona....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_gang
True. Plus what would the illegals do for work? (Whoops, did I say that out loud?)
Just out of curiosity, how many of you have ever worked in a jail or prison?
Sadly, Immigrant advocate groups would raise hell if this were to ever happen.
I think the county jail in Maricopa County does.
I thought the whole point of prison was "rehabilitation". I think getting prisoners to learn a skill set or do something productive as a requirement would go a long way to help that. Then again, I've never been to prison. Just jail overnight for something stupid when I was younger. It's not meant to be a pleasant experience. There were some knuckleheads in there with me at the time that were like "yeahhh dogg, dis is my 5th time. it's actually pretty cool". It's kinda fvckin' scary knowing there's people that dumb running around.
I like what Sheriff Joe Arpaio did at his jail. They have to sleep out in the open in old military surplus canvas tents.
http://articles.cnn.com/1999-07-27/u...rpaio?_s=PM:USWe took away coffee, that saved 150,000 a year. Why do you need coffee in jail says Arpaio, patrolling the dusty, barren grounds. Switched to bologna sandwiches, that saved half a million dollars a year.
Arpaio makes inmates pay for their meals, which some say are worse than those for the guard dogs. Canines eat 1.10 worth of food a day, the inmate 90 cents, the sheriff says. Im very proud of that too.
Critics rail against harsh conditions in the prison, where temperatures can top 100 degrees.
We still have rights, but they act like were scum, one inmate complains.
Adds Eleanor Eisenberg of the ACLU Sheriff Arpaio has conditions in his jail that are inhumane, and hes proud of it.
Arpaio boasts of his chain gangs for men and women, which contribute thousands of dollars of free labor to taxpayers each month, according to his Web site.
Pink underwear and bedtime stories
Inmates follow strict fashion and lifestyle guidelines. They are forced to wear oldfashioned prison stripes and pink underwear. Prohibited items include cigarettes, adult magazines, hot lunches and television except for his bedtime story reading, a selfstyled literacy program broadcast nightly to the inmates.
The sheriff, who spent more than 25 years in the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, including a stint as a special agent in Turkey, has taken justice to rare extremes in other areas as well.
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