Life while in Prison

[Salty]

What are your thoughts about someone who has been sentenced to prison.

As a benchmark - lets say that the benchmark is a minimum of ten years.( which would indicate a major crime)

Are you of the thinking is throw away the key until the ten years are up -
or should we try to rehabilitate the individual? - for rehab - how about someone serving a life sentence?

Should prisoners be expected to work in prison - if so - a minimum of 20, 40, 50- or even 60 hours a week?

Should visitation policies be extremely liberal, extremely tight or somewhere in between?

Should prisoners be allowed to have extras in their cell - ie radios, TV, cell phones, ect

Obviously, urgent medical should be given - but how about gender change, comestic surgery, ect.
Are there other medical treatments that should not be permitted.

Should a prisoner be allowed to be an organ donor.

Open for discussion.

 

[carpro]

May get more specific later, but in general, prison is far too easy as it is. Maybe that's why over 60% of them don't mind going back.

In prison, their lives are run for them. They have no responsibilities, no bills to pay , financially no medical concerns, and for a lot of them, no job to work. It's a cakewalk even for the lazy. Three hots and a cot. All paid for by the taxpayer. A lot of them grow to like it.

 

[Don]

Carpro - there's a TV series you should consider watching, called "60 Days In." Not saying you're wrong; just giving an additional perspective.

 

[carpro]

Carpro - there's a TV series you should consider watching, called "60 Days In." Not saying you're wrong; just giving an additional perspective.

I don't want this to sound wrong, but I doubt a television series can tell me anything I don't already have personal experience with, at least in Texas. State systems, though, do vary and it's a known fact the federal system is even easier.

I'll just add this, I am not a convicted felon.

 

[Salty]

Carpro - there's a TV series you should consider watching, called "60 Days In." Not saying you're wrong; just giving an additional perspective.

What network, day and time is that on?

 

[carpro]

What network, day and time is that on?

A&E, I believe. Don't know what time, but I did partially follow his recommendation. I read the reviews and the background to the series, as well as interviews with the county sheriff that runs the Clark County Jail.

 

[Crabtownboy]

Y'all might like to read the book described below.
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The Maximum Security Book Club: Reading Literature in a Men's Prison

A riveting account of the two years literary scholar Mikita Brottman spent reading literature with criminals in a maximum-security men's prison outside Baltimore and what she learned from them - Orange Is the New Black meets Reading Lolita in Tehran.

On sabbatical from teaching literature to undergraduates, and wanting to educate a different kind of student, Mikita Brottman starts a book club with a group of convicts from the Jessup Correctional Institution in Maryland. She assigns them 10 dark, challenging classics, including Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Shakespeare's Macbeth, Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Poe's story "The Black Cat", and Nabokov's Lolita - books that don't flinch from evoking the isolation of the human struggle, the pain of conflict, and the cost of transgression. Although Brottman is already familiar with these works, the convicts open them up in completely new ways. Their discussions may "only" be about literature, but for the prisoners, everything is at stake.

Gradually the inmates open up about their lives and families, their disastrous choices, their guilt and loss. Brottman also discovers that life in prison, while monotonous, is never without incident. The book club members struggle with their assigned reading through solitary confinement; on lockdown; in between factory shifts; in the hospital; and in the middle of the chaos of blasting televisions, incessant chatter, and the constant banging of metal doors.

Though The Maximum Security Book Club never loses sight of the moral issues raised in the selected reading, it refuses to back away from the unexpected insights offered by the company of these complex, difficult men. It is a compelling, thoughtful analysis of literature - and prison life - like nothing you've ever listened to before.

 

[Rob_BW]

Y'all might like to read the book described below.
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The Maximum Security Book Club: Reading Literature in a Men's Prison

A riveting account of the two years literary scholar Mikita Brottman spent reading literature with criminals in a maximum-security men's prison outside Baltimore and what she learned from them - Orange Is the New Black meets Reading Lolita in Tehran.

On sabbatical from teaching literature to undergraduates, and wanting to educate a different kind of student, Mikita Brottman starts a book club with a group of convicts from the Jessup Correctional Institution in Maryland. She assigns them 10 dark, challenging classics, including Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Shakespeare's Macbeth, Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Poe's story "The Black Cat", and Nabokov's Lolita - books that don't flinch from evoking the isolation of the human struggle, the pain of conflict, and the cost of transgression. Although Brottman is already familiar with these works, the convicts open them up in completely new ways. Their discussions may "only" be about literature, but for the prisoners, everything is at stake.

Gradually the inmates open up about their lives and families, their disastrous choices, their guilt and loss. Brottman also discovers that life in prison, while monotonous, is never without incident. The book club members struggle with their assigned reading through solitary confinement; on lockdown; in between factory shifts; in the hospital; and in the middle of the chaos of blasting televisions, incessant chatter, and the constant banging of metal doors.

Though The Maximum Security Book Club never loses sight of the moral issues raised in the selected reading, it refuses to back away from the unexpected insights offered by the company of these complex, difficult men. It is a compelling, thoughtful analysis of literature - and prison life - like nothing you've ever listened to before.

Here's one I found interesting:
May | 2011 | Captain Incarcerated

 

[carpro]

Add these to your reading list.

State releases details of guard's death

Inmate suspect is facing life sentence or lethal injection

March 5th, 2016by Lynn LaRowe in Texarkana News




Investigators Identify Inmate Suspected in Prison Guard's Death

Inmate Dillion Gage Compton, 21, who worked in the prison's kitchen area, attacked and killed correctional officer Mari Johnson, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice alleged in a statement Monday.

 

[kyredneck]

What are your thoughts about someone who has been sentenced to prison.

Depends on if they're sociopathic, or not.

It's interesting to note that there were NO provisions for prisons under the Mosaic law. It was some form of public humiliation, restitution, punitive damages, slavery, death penalty, but no prisons. But in this society, normal, non-sociopathic, people can and do commit crimes that land them in the 'penitentiary', and there is always the possibility that they will become 'penitent' from being incarcerated, and reform. There is no changing the sociopath. They will always be the center of their universe, with no conviction of right or wrong whatsoever.

Appreciate it or not, inmates in the U.S. retain some basic constitutional rights that cannot be denied them.