“I spent 3 months in jail. These are some helpful hints: 1) The Honey Bun is fucking CURRENCY. Buy them by the dozen from commissary. Treat them like twenty-dollar bills. 2) Do not, under any circumstances act gay. You will be propositioned hourly. 3) Get a job working in the jail. I did laundry and it was the only thing that got me through it. 4) Masturbation is not only encouraged, but a piece of toilet paper hanging on your cell door is the universal symbol for “slapping the salami, come back later”. 5) Shitting is frowned upon, the courtesy flush is mandatory. 6) If you saw who started a fight, forget that you saw it, even if it causes trouble down the road nothing worse than a razor to the face. 7) If somebody asks you if you want to make a burrito, say “Yes” and go find some Fritos or a Slim Jim. You can thank me when you’re a free man. 8) Buy stamps or stamped envelopes. Writing the outside world will keep you sane. “
I haven’t been, but my brother has. There is a myth that pedophiles get beaten in prison – which they would IF they were not protected. Pedophiles are either completely segregated from the general population or there are extreme penalties for fighting a pedophile that does not exist for fighting say a drug dealer or a murderer. As a result pedophiles know they are untouchable and relish in it. The rest of the prisoners can only shun them sometimes at their own expense. Once my brother was going to take a class until a pedophile enrolled in it. The entire class dropped out rather than associate with the pedophile. It is true though that there is only one thing that unites the gangs in prison, and that is their shared hatred of pedophiles.
My experience is that county jail is like living in a dungeon. There was no rec time, I literally didn’t see the sun for thirty days. People are in there waiting to go to their parent prison, so they don’t give a fuck about anything, and the guards have a similar outlook. Prison is a little better. You and everyone else is stuck there for a long time, so the majority of inmates try to make it livable. Black people are loud as fuck in prison/jail. They think it’s their time to shine, to show everyone how tough they are. Yelling, singing, rapping, fighting, something about prison makes a lot of black people crazy. It’s like a family reunion for some people. Many times I saw black guys come in and see all of their friends and family from the neighborhood. How the hell can you go to jail and know people in there?
JAIL AND PRISON ARE TWO VERY DIFFERENT THINGS So many people use those words interchangeably, when they are completely different things. In jail the biggest cliche is that food is terrible. It’s the worst fucking food you will ever eat.
Like almost everyone here, neither have I. But Jeffrey Archer’s Prison Diary was pretty enlightening and quite humble. It tells you about the double bubble. If you take a cigarette from an inmate, you have to give him 2 cigarette back. All favours work like that. And inmates with life sentences are not savage dogs, but tired polite people who’ve lost their will to live. Also, pedophiles and other molesters often get crime cover stories to protect them from getting beaten to bloody pulp. Minimum security prisons don’t have boundary walls and inmates can run out if they want(which they almost never do). Here’s the link to part one if someone wants to buy it: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Prison-Diary-1-Hell/dp/0330418599
I worked in a prison for two years. They have a lot more freedoms and privileges than you would imagine. I think how pedophiles get treated vary state to state. In Florida, pedophiles are not segregated from general population, and are very much hated by other inmates. The only people that were segregated were ex law enforcement/judges etc. and ex gang members who were in fear for their life. But, like I said this probably varies by each states’ laws.
I’ve been a guard at a jail every summer since I graduated high school. Those guys care more about how their hair looks than you could possibly imagine. These guys would cut one another’s hair every single day. I don’t think that’s a cliche, but it really should be. It was like a god damn hair salon except like every once in a while there would be a fight over packets of cheese.
First: Jail and prison are two different things in the mind of criminals. Think county versus state/federal. Second: Everything depends on where you go. Youth prisons are less stereotypical in terms of rape and murder, generally. Minimum security versus maximum security. Solitary versus general population…. It’s complex.
What a coincidence I went to jail yesterday and got released like 3 hours ago. Jail food sucks ass but something is better than nothing. If you happen to confuse jail with prison my cousin who was locked up in prison said that gangs are segregated and guards make sure there is little contact with them but fights still happen. He said that you shower at around 5 am, eat breakfast at 6 am, lunch at 12, and dinner at 5 pm.
“I spent 3 months in jail. These are some helpful hints: 1) The Honey Bun is fucking CURRENCY. Buy them by the dozen from commissary. Treat them like twenty-dollar bills. 2) Do not, under any circumstances act gay. You will be propositioned hourly. 3) Get a job working in the jail. I did laundry and it was the only thing that got me through it. 4) Masturbation is not only encouraged, but a piece of toilet paper hanging on your cell door is the universal symbol for “slapping the salami, come back later”. 5) Shitting is frowned upon, the courtesy flush is mandatory. 6) If you saw who started a fight, forget that you saw it, even if it causes trouble down the road nothing worse than a razor to the face. 7) If somebody asks you if you want to make a burrito, say “Yes” and go find some Fritos or a Slim Jim. You can thank me when you’re a free man. 8) Buy stamps or stamped envelopes. Writing the outside world will keep you sane. “
I haven’t been, but my brother has. There is a myth that pedophiles get beaten in prison – which they would IF they were not protected. Pedophiles are either completely segregated from the general population or there are extreme penalties for fighting a pedophile that does not exist for fighting say a drug dealer or a murderer. As a result pedophiles know they are untouchable and relish in it. The rest of the prisoners can only shun them sometimes at their own expense. Once my brother was going to take a class until a pedophile enrolled in it. The entire class dropped out rather than associate with the pedophile. It is true though that there is only one thing that unites the gangs in prison, and that is their shared hatred of pedophiles.
My experience is that county jail is like living in a dungeon. There was no rec time, I literally didn’t see the sun for thirty days. People are in there waiting to go to their parent prison, so they don’t give a fuck about anything, and the guards have a similar outlook. Prison is a little better. You and everyone else is stuck there for a long time, so the majority of inmates try to make it livable. Black people are loud as fuck in prison/jail. They think it’s their time to shine, to show everyone how tough they are. Yelling, singing, rapping, fighting, something about prison makes a lot of black people crazy. It’s like a family reunion for some people. Many times I saw black guys come in and see all of their friends and family from the neighborhood. How the hell can you go to jail and know people in there?
TIL Jail and prison are two different things… derp
JAIL AND PRISON ARE TWO VERY DIFFERENT THINGS So many people use those words interchangeably, when they are completely different things. In jail the biggest cliche is that food is terrible. It’s the worst fucking food you will ever eat.
Like almost everyone here, neither have I. But Jeffrey Archer’s Prison Diary was pretty enlightening and quite humble. It tells you about the double bubble. If you take a cigarette from an inmate, you have to give him 2 cigarette back. All favours work like that. And inmates with life sentences are not savage dogs, but tired polite people who’ve lost their will to live. Also, pedophiles and other molesters often get crime cover stories to protect them from getting beaten to bloody pulp. Minimum security prisons don’t have boundary walls and inmates can run out if they want(which they almost never do). Here’s the link to part one if someone wants to buy it: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Prison-Diary-1-Hell/dp/0330418599
I worked in a prison for two years. They have a lot more freedoms and privileges than you would imagine. I think how pedophiles get treated vary state to state. In Florida, pedophiles are not segregated from general population, and are very much hated by other inmates. The only people that were segregated were ex law enforcement/judges etc. and ex gang members who were in fear for their life. But, like I said this probably varies by each states’ laws.
I’ve been a guard at a jail every summer since I graduated high school. Those guys care more about how their hair looks than you could possibly imagine. These guys would cut one another’s hair every single day. I don’t think that’s a cliche, but it really should be. It was like a god damn hair salon except like every once in a while there would be a fight over packets of cheese.
First: Jail and prison are two different things in the mind of criminals. Think county versus state/federal. Second: Everything depends on where you go. Youth prisons are less stereotypical in terms of rape and murder, generally. Minimum security versus maximum security. Solitary versus general population…. It’s complex.
What a coincidence I went to jail yesterday and got released like 3 hours ago. Jail food sucks ass but something is better than nothing. If you happen to confuse jail with prison my cousin who was locked up in prison said that gangs are segregated and guards make sure there is little contact with them but fights still happen. He said that you shower at around 5 am, eat breakfast at 6 am, lunch at 12, and dinner at 5 pm.