Is it just me????

[Xi Bowhunter]

Are there a lot of documentaries about life in prison or what? I think they are interesting shows, but there sure seem to be a lot of attention drawn to them lately. Discovery, MSNBC, and the National Geographic channel all have several shows about prison life. All I know is I will do everything in my power to NEVER be put in prison. That is one hard life. But one thing seems to be common between all the shows I have watched, they all let you know that the inmates control pretty much everything in the prison but the locks and gates. Anyone else think that just isn't right? Watching these shows, I think these inmates get way too many privileges IMO. They get cable, personal possessions, and many other commodities that in my opinion, make life way to comfortable for people who commit crimes. I think that if prison were tougher and more controlled, it may deter more crimes just because of the consequences. What is your take?

[BigDaddy]

How about we just start hanging more killers/rapists and just maybe we can keep some of these fools out of prison in the first place?

[Wildcat]

This is one time I will agree with you. The prisoners get way too much.


But then look back though the history of prisons in the US and find out who opened those doors for all privileges. The History channel had a show not long ago showing exactly who did that and I found out the same thing on the net.

[schroader]

:mad: They have it better than we do dont have to work, hot meals, and a warm place to sleep. Makes me madder than H E double hockey sticks to even think about it...:mad:

Schroader

[cornbread]

I agree with XI and Big Daddy. They have way to much. By law they have to have a certain amount of receration time. They must have a law library, so they can research appeals. Can't have two cold meals in a row ( if they have cold cut sandwitchs for lunch they must have a hot meal for dinner. Medical and dental care. Are you getting the picture. We need to just have public hangings.

[AteUp]

Cornbread, one part of your post made me laugh out loud!:D;)

[killinmammals]

Well, Im up for thinning out the prison population. Why should some guy that raped somebody or killed a man get to live out his days not working, lifting weights, and taking a nap when he wants. I'm paying for him to waste away in jail....I'll just go ahead and give somebody an extra five dollars for one week to get him out of the herd! My home isn't far from the last public hanging...maybe we should be first to start it back up.

[MsgMills]

I believe in the Old Western Days of Law....Remember the Hangin Judge from Hang'em High, with Clint Eastwood.....Found Guilty hang'em....Heck they even hung a guy for getting disorderly and drunk in the movie..... I tell ya, start hang'n the criminals and the crime will slow way down once these fools start see'n their buddies strung up....... Maybe pop a few heads off, they'll get the picture for sure......

[trust me]

A buddy I go to church with went to Manchester Federal to do some outreach and mission work. They also played a basketball game against the prison team. He said he talked with a guy that had a college scholarship, money in his pocket, and then got into the drug scene. He got arrested on his first drug deal, and got a bunch of federal time. His story of life in Manchester was horrible. He said AIDS was rampant, rapes were commonplace, assaults were a daily event. There were as much drugs and violence inside as there are outside, maybe more.

The inmate begged my buddy to go to the schools and playgrounds and tell his story so that maybe one kid could avoid what he was living.

My buddy said while he was playing the ball game, he counted the white faces in the gym. 5 players on the floor, and one prisoner in the stands. The rest were black or Hispanic. 6 white faces total out of hundreds of people.

[Wildcat]

Speaking about hanging. My mother and her cousin got to see one of the last public hangings in Kentucky.

They were having a hanging on the court yard in Smithland, Ky and my grandmother had told my mother she didn't want Mom anywhere near there.Later my mothers cousin came by and tlaked her into going with him. There was a fence that went though the back of the courthouse and they got up on that where they was able to see everything.

Mom didn't talk much about it but a few years ago when her cousin came camping here he had about 20 pictures of the hanging and in a couple of them you could see Mom and him on the fence. You could also see the guy climbing the steps and having the hood put over him.

I'm going to try to get those pictures from him someday.

[trust me]

I've been in a prison one time, and that was to fight a fire. The prisoners rioted and set fire to a building, looted the place, threw everything out of the windows, etc. The fire was burning as the guards slowly got control of the place. We stayed outside the gate with the truck until they said it was safe to go in. We went in and started fighting fire under armed guard, for pete's sake. A guy with an 870 was staying right with us. I found out why a few minutes into it when I saw a guard with a shotgun escorting an inmate past me. There were still a few of the prisoners unaccounted for and we were told to never get more than a few feet away from the guard. To the guard's credit, he stayed right with us the whole way, until we entered the building and did the inside work. Any inmate left in there wouldn't have been any trouble at that point.

While we were overhauling the place, everytime we would throw stuff out the windows, the inmates in the other locked down building would cheer and yell, thinking the rioters were doing the deeds.

Fighting fire with a SWAT-looking guy and his 870 hovering behind you is interesting.

[model700270]

i work at a max security federal prison in ky and it is a joke they have more rights than we do eat better than i do do not beleive anything a inmate tells you prison is not hard at all drug are rampant weapons are rampant all be they are homemade knifes they let these guys get by with everything and anything and it is not the officers fault it is managments fault we have been in the newspapers several times about how things are ran up here . we are not guards we are officers .

[trust me]

700270,
In the future I will refer to you guys by your proper title. Thanks.

[BigDaddy]

I've been in a prison one time, and that was to fight a fire. The prisoners rioted and set fire to a building, looted the place, threw everything out of the windows, etc. The fire was burning as the guards slowly got control of the place. We stayed outside the gate with the truck until they said it was safe to go in. We went in and started fighting fire under armed guard, for pete's sake. A guy with an 870 was staying right with us. I found out why a few minutes into it when I saw a guard with a shotgun escorting an inmate past me. There were still a few of the prisoners unaccounted for and we were told to never get more than a few feet away from the guard. To the guard's credit, he stayed right with us the whole way, until we entered the building and did the inside work. Any inmate left in there wouldn't have been any trouble at that point.

While we were overhauling the place, everytime we would throw stuff out the windows, the inmates in the other locked down building would cheer and yell, thinking the rioters were doing the deeds.

Fighting fire with a SWAT-looking guy and his 870 hovering behind you is interesting.


Great story. A friend of mine is building a huge federal prison in TN. He is a union bricklayer supervisor. He says it is amazing how nice the facility will be when complete. He has built Adelphia, Vanderbilt buildings, and a lot of schools and he says this thing ranks up there with them. He refers to it as a campus....cause it is spread out just like a college campus.

[GSP]

I have installed the cable TV these guys watch at the Federal Correction facility on Leestown rd in Lexington. This place is an older establishment and considered a low/med prision. I want NO part of that place! We wired the medical unit, it is a floor that has the medical staff enclosed in an interior unit that is surrounded by hallways. Across the hallways is single 8x8 rooms that consist of a steel bed, bare everything and cleats for shackels if needed. I would rather go to my vet than to think about being in one of those rooms. Again, this is one of the "easy" places to spend your life, I for one won't no part of that!