airtwardo 7 #26 June 9, 2007 I spent about a month in Houston's city jail one weekend! Case of 'Mistaken Identity'...a boat load of warrants from area of Harris county I've never even BEEN through! Three days of standing ankle deep in piss & puke in a 40 X 60 room with 100 dirt-bags will convince ya in short order that there are much better places to spend a weekend! ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
masterrig 1 #27 June 9, 2007 Quote Quote About the same as a large prison... just on a smaller scale. Ok, so what is it like to be in prison? (Other than what Krip has already described.) And 1969912: Who is Goatse??? ______________________________________ About all I know about prison or jail is what I've been told by folks I know who worked in them. To sum it up... I dang sure wouldn't want to be there!Chuck Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Richards 0 #28 June 9, 2007 Quote Quote About the same as a large prison... just on a smaller scale. Are you sure? I always had the impression that since local jails were mostly small time offenders, the risk of violence and gangrape would be significantly reduced. Never been to jail so I don't really know but, it would seem that there would at least be that distinction. Being in a max pen with hardened criminals, murderers gangsters and guys who are never going to get out and have nothing to lose would scare me to death (I would still be somewhat nervous if sent to a local jail). My biggest handicap is that sometimes the hole in the front of my head operates a tad bit faster than the grey matter contained within. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Richards 0 #29 June 9, 2007 Quote Being the Brave Macho Mega man I am, I do the only reasonable thing. Drop to the ground in a fetal position, Cover my head and start praying. Hey, we are likeminded heroes. I usually would do something similar but also lose control of the bladder, and start crying. My biggest handicap is that sometimes the hole in the front of my head operates a tad bit faster than the grey matter contained within. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
masterrig 1 #30 June 9, 2007 Quote Quote Quote About the same as a large prison... just on a smaller scale. Are you sure? I always had the impression that since local jails were mostly small time offenders, the risk of violence and gangrape would be significantly reduced. Never been to jail so I don't really know but, it would seem that there would at least be that distinction. Being in a max pen with hardened criminals, murderers gangsters and guys who are never going to get out and have nothing to lose would scare me to death (I would still be somewhat nervous if sent to a local jail). _______________________________________ I know a couple jailers who work at the County Cross-bars Hotel in a town of about 100,000 and they've told me some stories that made me cringe. Chuck Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Krip 2 #31 June 9, 2007 Quote Quote Quote About the same as a large prison... just on a smaller scale. Are you sure? I always had the impression that since local jails were mostly small time offenders, the risk of violence and gangrape would be significantly reduced. Never been to jail so I don't really know but, it would seem that there would at least be that distinction. Being in a max pen with hardened criminals, murderers gangsters and guys who are never going to get out and have nothing to lose would scare me to death (I would still be somewhat nervous if sent to a local jail). I think the bad people's first stop after they get busted is the local jail, then maybe a regional jail while thier wait for trial etc and then when their convicted they go to the big house. with the other convicted bad people.So your cellie in jail could be in for lots of different reasons. If your lucky and their not to crowded they might segregate the really bad apple's from the short timers.Don't piss off the corectional officers/jailers Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
smiles 0 #32 June 9, 2007 memories for a 16 yr. old raised to adult court and sentenced to 2 weeks in prison for "failing to appear"- what a wake up call! -shoved in a room with bath tub and nothing but mirrors on the walls- told to take off your clothes and get in tub for bath while female guards stand watching......having your hair doused with solution for lice, having to bend over naked while checked for drugs up the arse.......thrown in 24 hr. lock up with junkies and then transferred into a cell with inmate that had drowned her baby in a bathtub- (2 yr. less a day charge) -as insulin dependent diabetic getting taken daily to nurse office for injections with guard to make sure used syringe was disposed of- and the rest of the day hassled for syringes from junkies- I did shed some tears and started writing my life story on ass wipe- recall lining up in hallway to get coffee cup before going to eat the horrible food--going back to court to be charged with fraud under $500. with 3 months definate/ 9 indefinate in a rehabilitation center for "young ladies"- Here work was mucking chicken barn every a.m.- (will never forget the smell when those barn doors opened) feeding the chickens and collecting eggs- washing shit off them- then shoveling shit into wheel barrows that were pushed onto field outside to be shoveled on to property ........mmmm- "rehabilitation" As minimal security a friend did get to visit and slid me a pack of cigs across the table when guard not watching. It was so exciting not to get searched after visit and return to my room to open up package and find gold seal carved out of brick of hash perfect to fit in pkg.!! I ate grams of hash daily before chicken barn mucking- "entertainment." Duties for rest of day: scrub walls and floors etc. Made leather wallets & purses, sewed xmas stockings, made license plates. Took 3 months for my lawyer to appeal charge and one day was told I could go- my charge had been dropped- no parole-no probation. (my mother charged me for writing $45.00 check on her account) Bummer I didn't understand "charge being dropped" and learned big lesson traveling to Bush's country. I had crossed the border and was pulled over for drivers licence check- woops, arrested, taken to jail by police that were way more aggressive than what I'd experienced........ told they could keep me 2 yrs. in jail as had been charged in Canada-not allowed to cross border..........WTF.........they did release me and eventually did get a pardon in Canada but that doesn't mean I can enter the states. SMiles Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lastchance 0 #33 June 9, 2007 Imagine being in the same pod with 30 or 40 other guys overcrowded, people yelling, complaining. and generally being pissed off cuz they are there, Drinking shitty coffee and being fed beans 3 days in a row in different forms with open air toilets, everybody farting and burping and making the whole place smell like a sewer. Being fed shitty food in general all the time. Watching COPS and true stories of the highway patrol (really) on the tube. I couldn't believe this is what they wanted to watch. Punk ass kids who think they are badass until you put them in their place. Junkies, drunks, you name it. I spent a week doing this and I swear I will never do anything to end up there again. I have friends that have done extended periods in county and city jails and also prison time. They have all said that if you have to spend extended periods of time its better to do it in prison because you do have more freedom.... Being able to work, and exercise and just being able to recreate to some extent where as in county or city you are very confined. Don't get me wrong about all this, jail is not supposed to be fun. I did the crime and I did the time. Hope I never have to go do it again. I may be getting old but I got to see all the cool bands. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pditto 0 #34 June 9, 2007 They never put enough sugar in the kool-aid. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mnealtx 0 #35 June 9, 2007 Quote Quote OK........ that's not what I was expecting, but thanks. And now I must warn everyone else... You really don't want to look at that. Trust me. (No seriously, trust me!) OMG how many STD's did my laptop just get from that damn site...Ok if anyone was wondering, shotgun wasn't kidding...DO NOT fucking look at that site. Gaddamn I need some fucking clorox to burn that 5 seconds out of my eyes... Here ya go!Mike I love you, Shannon and Jim. POPS 9708 , SCR 14706 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andy_Copland 0 #36 June 9, 2007 Cold, hard bed, bad company and very boring windows. On the plus side the English coppers know how to make a nice cup of tea (until the cut that privilage off)1338 People aint made of nothin' but water and shit. Until morale improves, the beatings will continue. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LisaM 0 #37 June 9, 2007 Quote Quote OK........ that's not what I was expecting, but thanks. And now I must warn everyone else... You really don't want to look at that. Trust me. (No seriously, trust me!) OMG how many STD's did my laptop just get from that damn site...Ok if anyone was wondering, shotgun wasn't kidding...DO NOT fucking look at that site. Gaddamn I need some fucking clorox to burn that 5 seconds out of my eyes... Thanks for that warning. I will steer clear! ~ Lisa ~ Do you Rigminder? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ACMESkydiver 0 #38 June 9, 2007 ~Jaye Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mnealtx 0 #39 June 9, 2007 Did it help? Mike I love you, Shannon and Jim. POPS 9708 , SCR 14706 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ACMESkydiver 0 #40 June 9, 2007 Quote Did it help? ~Jaye Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 34 #41 June 12, 2007 I did spend a night in the special needs wing of the county jail several years ago. I was mad as hell for getting put in jail in the first place so everybody left me alone, not that anything would happen in that wing anyway. It's full of trustee inmates anyway. It was probably the most embarrassing moment of my life, getting hauled away from home with nothing on but a pair of shorts. And if you have to know why, I threw a lamp across the bedroom. I threw it hard enough that it went THROUGH the door! My wife was in one of those "won't leave me the hell alone so I can sleep" modes and trying to quote the damn bible. She has spent the last few years trying to make it up to me... "Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nerd137 0 #42 June 12, 2007 If you're curious, give this book a read. You won't be able to put it down. However, this book focuses on maximum security prision...not a jail like poor little Paris is in. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryoder 1,590 #43 June 12, 2007 Quote And if you have to know why, I threw a lamp across the bedroom. I threw it hard enough that it went THROUGH the door! Billy, the idea that a beaded curtain constitutes a "door", sort of faded away after the '70's."There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stitch 0 #44 June 12, 2007 Ask Sunshine, she seems to be an authority on "Prison Love". "No cookies for you"- GFD "I don't think I like the sound of that" ~ MB65 Don't be a "Racer Hater" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thanatos340 1 #45 June 12, 2007 Quote Ask Sunshine, she seems to be an authority on "Prison Love". I was once in Jail with Sunny. She took it like a Man. Prison Love is Tough Love. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Remster 30 #46 June 12, 2007 Quote She took it like a Man. Thats funny... I heard you took it like a screaming girl!Remster Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thanatos340 1 #47 June 12, 2007 Remi.. Is that all you got today? You generally do a lot better than that. Please try again. "I heard you took it like a screaming girl!" Yea, Work on that get back to us when you have something. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CaptainOKaos 0 #48 June 12, 2007 Quote All this talk about Paris Hilton is making me wonder... What is it actually like to be in jail? (Hopefully I'll never get to find out for myself!) Regular, ordinary jail, or the death sentence one some call MARRIAGE?I'll Take Jail for $2,000 Alex!You're as wonderful as a slinkie!! NOT REALLY GOOD FOR ANYTHING BUT THEY BRING A SMILE TO YOUR FACE WHEN PUSHED DOWN THE STAIRS. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Remster 30 #49 June 12, 2007 I'm sorry J... Its my day of obvious comebacks today (re. red shift in SC)Remster Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Shotgun 1 #50 June 12, 2007 Quote If you're curious, give this book a read. You won't be able to put it down. However, this book focuses on maximum security prision...not a jail like poor little Paris is in. That sounds like an interesting book, but... "6 used & new available from $79.98" - yikes! And now that I clicked on it, I'm sure I'll get some interesting new recommendations from amazon.com. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
