Prison consultants help inmates get good digs

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090728/ap_on_re_us/us_prison_brokers

From Martha Stewart to Michael Vick, prison consultants are often hired by celebrities, white-collar miscreants and disgraced politicians to lobby for good prison placement, mitigate sentence length and offer crash courses in prison culture.

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Miller says his firm first assesses a client's "prison demeanor" and then tailors advice accordingly. Often, former powerbrokers are told they can no longer order others around and shy people are urged to learn to play cards or talk sports so they don't seem anti-social.

Clients are counseled, he said, to always stick with their own race — regardless of how open-minded they might be in the outside world — and are coached to never let anyone cut in front of them in the food line. They're warned that dorm environments are more volatile than single cellblocks and that most altercations take place in the TV room.

Prison consultants charge anywhere from a few hundred to several thousand dollars for such advice, and help the prison-bound navigate every aspect of incarceration from sentencing to discharge.

i find this disgusting. absolutely sick. bad enough that money gets a lot of guilty people out of going to prison, and lack of money puts a lot of otherwise good people into prison unjustly, but now the prisoners with money get to have an easier ride than others? this is just so disgusting. "always stick with your own race" - gee.

maybe i'm overreacting. but i am truly repelled by this. :puke: and pissed even :grr:

[mikelewis]

1. Unfortunately, desegregation doesn't translate well behind bars...

My brother in law, who normally has no problem with other races outside of prison, does not associate with other races when inside of prison. To do so would get you stabbed to death... by either side. Prison is a place for vicious wild animals and animals seek their own for survival... if for some reason you should ever get sent there, it's probably worth every dime you'd pay to get a heads up from a consultant. It just might save your life.

[Heidi]

2. If it's a place for "vicious wild animals," how do you explain the fact that 47% of state prisoners

are there for non-violent crimes?



http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/prisons.htm

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3. good question nt

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4. i don't doubt it's worth it to them

how many others could never afford such a thing. they don't deserve special treatment because they're rich, imo