Did prison make you change your ways?

Question

Or someone you know? Lot's of people come on here telling us UK prisons are "cushy" like a holiday camp. I don't believe a word of it. I know I wouldn't like to be there!

Did the prison experience make you vow to turn over a new leaf?

Mark, few prison officers would want a tougher regime. This would make conditions more dangerous for them. And prisoners can be controlled better if they have priveleges which can be removed or reinstated as punishment or reward.

Answer 1

I went to an adult prison for five months and was then transferred to a youth prison. Neither was cushy and I had some very bad experiences there. They had an education programme that really did change my life, and luckily well before it was too late.
I will say that some of the folks in prison are beyond help, but if you are willing to play the game you have the chance of never going back. Anyone who thinks it's a holiday camp should try swapping their next package holiday with an inmate. Just one day of being locked up depresses you.

Answer 2

I have done quite a few sentences.but not 4 20 years is that an answer dose'nt matter how cushy it is you've not got your freedom

Answer 3

Since I have a hard court case against State and US contempt, and they evade review (heard this, before?), I get thrown in about once, each year, and IOJ'd out, after awhile.

I see guys in illegal county custody, which do NOT file pro se habeas petitions in tainted State courts and habeas motions, in (slowly turning to address State contempt) USDC, which stay in illegal county or CDC as DDDs, WITHOUT LAWFUL CHARGES, as if at Guantanamo, stuck with, by, and for CATHOLIC ORGANIZED CRIME WITH JEWISH BERSERKERS, in every, Romeo-and-Juliet-queered jurisdiction, in every county and borough, in the USA.

Got a drug war, illegal prostitution, the Fourth Crusade in the Middle East, and women, mixing with doctors, lawyers, and pimps, pretending to 'REPRESENT?' Yes, you have! And you have NO EVEN ENFORCEMENT, of any law. Your jurisdictions illegally compete, for any asset and funding, INCLUDING WITH THE ILLEGAL INTERESTS, ACROSS THE NATIONAL BORDERS, and at the Vatican.

When the cities collapse, somebody better tell the cops, they blew it, already. We cannot afford all those WALKING ABORTIONS, Mr. Walker. Is that approvable?

Answer 4

i have played a prison team in a sporting competition , and i think as a deterrent young offenders etc should be shown around, because its quite a intimidating and weird environment to constantly be surrounded by four walls ,

Answer 5

I know someone who works in a prison who says it is not all the easy life the papers make out. He says it would put him off reoffending

Answer 6

Never been to prison, but just about every criminal I come across has been in and out of the big house their entire lives.

So no, I don't think it changes their ways.

The only criminals who don't re-offend are the dead ones.

Answer 7

Saying prison was cushy is easy... once you are done with it. I would bet that same person hated every day he was in there, and didn't get the "cushy" attitude until after his release.

Answer 8

no, every one i know were the same or worse when they came out. it has to be made harder to have an effect. people dont want to go back, but still they have no fear of the place. what does happen is that they make new contacts and learn new skills, mostly bad ones.

Answer 9

I dont know any one who has been to prision, but i guess some people do change and some get worser. Its up to the individual to make the right choice.

Answer 10

I don't think it does make people change there ways. Just hardens them. Since they're cast adrift from society anyway what else have they got to lose?