Trip report/ask me about time in maximum (and minimum) security prison

[bigbootch]

Other than jobs, is there any other way that having been in prison affects you after you get out? For example, do you get searched at the airport, or do casinos watch you more frequently, stuff like that? More difficult to get a mortgage?

[Hey_Porter]

Great post, so I feel bad asking this stupid question. In an earlier post you called yourself a "convict." I was thinking about this the other day, but I always assumed the term came from actually being convicted. Since you pled out, you weren't really convicted, right (or is that wrong?)? Or has the term just evolved to roll everyone who serves time into one term? Like I said, stupid question, but it came up the other day.

[Dominic]

MT2R:

Great read, very well-written and informative (with pictures! [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]).

I'm sorry you had to go through this experience, but it seems to have helped mold you into who you are now, and from all accounts, that's a pretty cool dude.

FWIW, our drug laws are draconian and I always vote for legalization when I have the chance.

Best TR ever!

[vikefan24]

This was a great read.. thank you very much

As a 20 year old that has never been to prison I don't know much other than what you see in movies (and it sounds like the action parts match up, it's just the time when nothing happens that you don't see in film).

Something I have always wondered about were prison tattoos.. was there a professional in there that you could see with permission? or was it just other inmates that did it, if so how did they have the utensils to do it?

edit: this quote from that urban dictionary link cracked me up "you better gimmie dat cornbread son, or you finna get shanked!" said inmate dontrelle to his cellmate"

[Hopey]

How was Chris Churchill doing in prison? He was younger than all the other prisoners, plus I'm sure he wasn't too popular due to the nature of his crimes.

[mattw]

vikefan,

no professionals as far as i know. the ink comes from rubbing dominos on the pavement and gathering the dust. the needle is from a staple from a magizane spine.

[LionelHutz00]

Awesome TR, MT2R

[bwana devil]

turn, good thread. the criminilization of drugs is one of the US's worst social injustices.

what were the circumstances of your arrest?

[Praetor]

Nice thread

[Lazy Meatball]

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turn, good thread. the criminilization of drugs is one of the US's worst social injustices.

what were the circumstances of your arrest?

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Surely you can think of ten worst social injustices than the current drug laws.