Have you ever been in prison?

[sweetheart]

How many people here know what its like to be in prison?

[Road Scholar]

1. Married, does that count?

:shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug:

[sweetheart]

6. Does it?

In the worst moments of marriage imprisonment, if i'm at all honest... all my own ego,
being tromped on by the responsibilities of marriage... prison.. . or life expectations of
the great unlistened-to. ;-)

[Mythsaje]

2. First of all

Jail and Prison are two very different things.

I've been arrested a few times (mostly bullshit--I've got a clean enough record I got hired into a local hospital) and several of my friends have been to prison. The worst I've had to deal with is staying in jail overnight nearly twenty years ago. The only time since I've been arrested I was out in about an hour on my O.R.

[waiting for hope]

3. Ahh, the memories of a

misspent youth....

[Monkeyman]

4. Stockade for a day for tell and officer go f yourself

[TahitiNut]

18. He wasn't up for it, huh?

:evilgrin:

[ronnykmarshall]

5. Does being in a gay porno with a prison theme count?

Just asking.

[sweetheart]

10. well does it?

Did you reach that point in your method acting?

If you really did, youtube please... i respect any DU'er
who even for a second can method-act being a 3 strikes prisoner in CA.

[karlrschneider]

7. I was restricted to base for a month in the USAF once

for 'borrowing' one of their planes. :-)

[Monkeyman]

13. Ah Huh Article 15 I know there where some more of us LOL

[karlrschneider]

17. The funny thing was (this is true) I ended up typing all the paperwork

myself! The squadron clerk tried about 8 or 9 times and couldn't manage to do it right...so I volunteered. ;-)

[Monkeyman]

21. Now thats sop LOL

[EdwardM]

8. No, but I visit my brother in prison twice a month.

[sweetheart]

12. Whats it like?

Please tell, in as much detail as you feel comfortable, what's it like. How
does it feel? What is the 'vibe' you get from the people you meet when you visit?

[Gwerlain]

9. Juvie,

cause my old man thought it was the "right thing to do" since I wouldn't listen to him. I haven't since.

[951-Riverside]

11. Like anyone is going to answer that truthfully :P n/t

[sweetheart]

14. hence the poll...

:P

We all get off around here!

apparently :-)

[ret5hd]

15. Been watching "the office", huh?

[sweetheart]

16. ? ?

? I'm at a loss... ?

I need your help please, as i've not seen the office for years. ;-) (realizing its a british show on the tele...)

[bigwillq]

19. No

I've been cuffed but let go after being questioned in the squad car.

That was a fun experience, let me tell you! :)

[Mojorabbit]

20. I spent the night in a holding cell

when I was 14 in the early seventies. My first husband who was in the Air Force spent 3 weeks in a Japanese jail and I was interrogated by the japanese police for 16 hours. I was in my early twenties then. He lost a stripe over that one but was not kicked out.

[sweetheart]

22. did it smell like pee?

Not that i'm saying i know what a holding smell (cell) smells like; not that
anyone could think with that disgusting odour of urine on every square inch
of floor... surely the cell i didn't see or experience in any way, was probably
unique, and the piss-stench was a plant by the CIA to convince me that all jail
holding cells smelled like a latrine... ;-)

[Mojorabbit]

29. I dont remember

It was almost 35 years ago and it's possible I may have done an 8 way hit of orange sunshine that night.;-)

[deadmessengers]

23. Arrested, but never charged

Back in 1993, I was arrested by the NYPD, on suspicion of having committed an armed robbery. I was released with nothing more than a few bruises and scrapes (from having my face pressed into hot asphalt) after they actually talked to the witnesses and realized while they were looking for a 6 foot tall, 200 pound man with a goatee and ponytail, the man they were really looking for was a black guy with dreadlocks. Somehow, that piece of information didn't make it over the radio report, and I had one of the scariest hours of my life as a result.

Incidentally, after that experience, I tend to believe all but the most patently absurd allegations of police brutality made against the New York City Police Department.

[TomInTib]

24. Yep, State and Military.

'nuff said.

[mykpart]

25. Does Catholic School count?

[deadmessengers]

27. Sort of...

I think you're a little more likely to be sodomized while attending Catholic school. ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)

[patricia92243]

26. I was pulled over by a policeman. I was driving my sister's car and couldn't get the lights on or t

the car into the correct gear. The cop said he thought we were drunk. He was as nice as could be and we didn't even have to get out of the car - but it scared me and my sister to death.

When it was all over, and we both had hysterics. If he had talked hateful to us or made us get out of the car or anything - I don't know what we would have done. I guess we would have just fainted dead away.

Ahh memories :)

[Speck Tater]

28. Why prison is better than marriage

In prison you might get time off for good behavior.

[Rhythm]

30. 6 weeks in a county jail...

I was originally charged with driving on a suspended license, and during my probation, i ran afoul of my PO, who didn't like me from day one, most likely because she was used to dealing with ignorant hicks (think rural NC). The judge activated my sentence (45 days), and there i sat in the county lock-up with "who's who in crackheadsville".

I made the best of it... i took the only single-occupant cell in the 'pod', so i had no roommates (there had supposedly been a suicide in that cell a couple of weeks before, so no one else had wanted it)... i inverted my sleep schedule so that i had some peace and quiet... did a LOT of writing and read every novel i could get my hands on... and just generally made the best of the situation.

My best friend in NY did 8 years in Elmira Correctional for arson (circumstantial case at best... shoddy representation, etc.). That place is a hole...

While he was there, however, he was lucky enough to get into the higher education program (his was the last group to earn degrees from there before the funding was cut under the Bush 41 admin.), earned a Masters in Psychology from Cornell(the university sponsoring the program/providing professors/etc...), and then set about starting a literacy program for other inmates, as well as teaching English to those for whom it wasn't their primary language.

He's often said that if not for having that program to occupy him, those 8 years would have felt like 800.