If you have been to jail/prison come in here

[Mr. Somebody]

The "bout that life" posters in here would lose all sanity in there

At least you have a lot of friends to talk to all day.

 

[Mr. Somebody]

Well, since it's a prison thread, I have to say.

At least looking at movies. Prisons in USA look like hotels, compared to the shyt here in brazil.


Over here thing is crazy. Like 30 dudes without taking a bath for more than a week, confined in a space of four square meters.

Everything dirty as fkk full of rats and insects.

Niccas killing each other on a daily basis.

Rebellion with cops shooting everyone.




I used to watch that Oz series. And I always got with how that place looked like a 5* hotel.



PICS of typical prisons here in brazil:


A look from the outside. Dudes been in the window just admiring the landscape:

Typical cell, I really don't know how they manage to sleep, maybe in turns:

at american prisons with dudes separating themselves by race, ain't nobody got time for that down here:

Inside of a cell:

But of course it have sun bath time:

And STILL, I've heard a lot of thugs wannabes here saying things like "for me, prison is like a hotel".

Have you met Anderson Silva, friend.

 

[Yinny]

Not as a detainee, but it was pretty unnerving regardless.

 

[Yinny]

Dbl

 

[unit321]

Whats it like being locked in a small ass cage?

Im not trying to be funny, I guess you could say im somewhat claustrophobic, jus the thought of being locked in a small room and not being able to leave has me

Especially being in the hole with only a small crack to look through for 23 hrs a day

Did you ever have periods where you just spazzed out and was banging on the walls and shyt?

Uh, so I was a deputy for a while.
Unless you are in solitary confinement, you get to move about in larger areas. There are general open areas where you get to watch TV or play chess or read a book or walk/workout. Then, there are periods of time when inmates get to go to the library, dining hall, or religious service at different times of the day/week. There's also visiting hours when you get to go to another part of the jail where visitors can talk to you through a window. There's also visits to the doctor and visits with your lawyer.
Inmates are confined to your cell duing sleeping time, lock-downs and inspections.
For the really good inmates, they get to go out and work. Those have to go through a approval because they get to get out of the jail, physically. That's a good chance to escape. But inmates who get approved for this detail have been convicted of a low-level crime, so an inmate is less likely wanting to escape because it will add an exponentially huge amount of time for escape to his existing sentence which is only months. Usually, no one screws that up. These are people who are in for non-violent things like multiple petit larcenies, embezzlement, etc. If you were convicted of a violent crime or have a lot of time to serve, you won't get approved.
Some inmates would spazz out, but not for claustrophobic reasons. They have other mental issues, which ends up putting them into solitary confinement.

 

[unit321]

we dont have jail in the uk. you get locked up in a cell at the local police station until your bail conditions are set. and most of the time you dont actually have to pay bail in the uk.

That's the same thing as city/county jail in the US.

 

[london]

shyt Ive been to detention, thats pretty much the same thing right

When I was in school, twice I had to go in on a SATURDAY for detention such a fukking piss take

although the teacher that was supervising didn't really give a shyt and so me and my boys just played on the foosball table

 

[Scumbag]

Uh, so I was a deputy for a while.
Unless you are in solitary confinement, you get to move about in larger areas. There are general open areas where you get to watch TV or play chess or read a book or walk/workout. Then, there are periods of time when inmates get to go to the library, dining hall, or religious service at different times of the day/week. There's also visiting hours when you get to go to another part of the jail where visitors can talk to you through a window. There's also visits to the doctor and visits with your lawyer.
Inmates are confined to your cell duing sleeping time, lock-downs and inspections.
For the really good inmates, they get to go out and work. Those have to go through a approval because they get to get out of the jail, physically. That's a good chance to escape. But inmates who get approved for this detail have been convicted of a low-level crime, so an inmate is less likely wanting to escape because it will add an exponentially huge amount of time for escape to his existing sentence which is only months. Usually, no one screws that up. These are people who are in for non-violent things like multiple petit larcenies, embezzlement, etc. If you were convicted of a violent crime or have a lot of time to serve, you won't get approved.
Some inmates would spazz out, but not for claustrophobic reasons. They have other mental issues, which ends up putting them into solitary confinement.

I appreciate the insight, but this is something I need to hear from someone who was actaully living as a prisoner in these conditions.

as a deputy, or from the outside looking in, you have a different perspective. You may say it wasnt that bad, and someone locked may feel it was the worst thing that could happen to him.

But you dropped some good insight. I didnt know inmates are only confined toa cell during sleep, lockdown, or whatever.

From the pics and other stories ive heard, it seems lockdown must be often because people rarely talk about rec time.

 

[O.iatlhawksfan]

I hated jail. Time went by slow and hated when the guards told me what to do all the time

 

[TheDragon23]

Uh, so I was a deputy for a while.
Unless you are in solitary confinement, you get to move about in larger areas. There are general open areas where you get to watch TV or play chess or read a book or walk/workout. Then, there are periods of time when inmates get to go to the library, dining hall, or religious service at different times of the day/week. There's also visiting hours when you get to go to another part of the jail where visitors can talk to you through a window. There's also visits to the doctor and visits with your lawyer.
Inmates are confined to your cell duing sleeping time, lock-downs and inspections.
For the really good inmates, they get to go out and work. Those have to go through a approval because they get to get out of the jail, physically. That's a good chance to escape. But inmates who get approved for this detail have been convicted of a low-level crime, so an inmate is less likely wanting to escape because it will add an exponentially huge amount of time for escape to his existing sentence which is only months. Usually, no one screws that up. These are people who are in for non-violent things like multiple petit larcenies, embezzlement, etc. If you were convicted of a violent crime or have a lot of time to serve, you won't get approved.
Some inmates would spazz out, but not for claustrophobic reasons. They have other mental issues, which ends up putting them into solitary confinement.

man prison dont seem that bad from ur post

shyt, i dont even have a tv service rite now. they got a gym too? they eat regularly too? nikkas livin better than me

 

[stepbackj34spud]

i been in central bookings a few times but never for longer than 30 hours. shyt fukking sucks. smelly homeless dudes and a bunch of fake thugs sharing war stories and talking shyt about the law like they know everything about it.

Bookings is as far as I ever want to go. That wait time to see the judge though. :damn;
nikkas be losing a sense of time n shyt. When you get to the bookings you know you ain't seeing the judge right away.. Better get some sleep.

 

[sanityovar8ted]

I learned how to thread eyebrows and how to make homemade tampons.

 

[Bledswole]

shyt it was chill lmao had so many nikkas I knew in that bytch. It was like a reunion.

nikka you got yo ass beat in other words

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

nikka like its a dfference between jail and prison

Well...There is actually.. A big difference...City and County jails are disastrous in most cities

 

[unit321]

man prison dont seem that bad from ur post

shyt, i dont even have a tv service rite now. they got a gym too? they eat regularly too? nikkas livin better than me

I was also a cop, too.
There would be homeless bums who would get arrested on purpose during the winter. They would go to a store that they know has a strict policy on shoplifting enforced by loss prevention, like Target or WalMart. They'll go in steal something in an obvious manner, and purposely do it in a slow manner so they'll get caught. They don't want the TV or whatever they picked up, they want to get caught. Free room and board.
Jail food sucks. I had to oversee the inmates in my building. The smell of jail food was not good. There is no beef. Everything is substituted with turkey, because it's kosher and cheap. Muslims and Jewish people don't eat pork. Since it is turkey, they can eat that. Turkey dogs, turkey taco meat, turkey bologna...
Some jails have gyms. The one I worked at didn't. They had a recreational room to play basketball or do calisthetics. If it wasn't raining, they would go to this outdoor play field. This was county jail, not maximum-security detention. Some dudes would be doing some serious running. You aren't allowed to run in the buildings, only walking is allowed. Others would just space out and look outside the fence.
As for working out, some dudes got creative and turned their pillow cases into weight resistance items. They filled it with books. Then did curls. You could put maybe 40 to 50 lbs. of books into a pillow case. There was a bookcase of crappy reading material in each building. No one read this material, e.g. books about freedom from alcohol and drug addiction.