Ask Layzie about Heroin Addiction/Doing Time In Prison

[Hopey]

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Small portions? So then probably most people felt they needed to buy extra food, right? As much as wanted to?

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Has GambleGamble hacked into your account? You seem overly preoccupied with prison portion sizes. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[Buccaneer]

I did about 6 months in a state prison. Not as an inmate but as an employee. I did not enjoy it one bit. You do not want to go to prison, ever.

I worked in medical and one time a prisoner asked me to sneak some black silk socks into the prison. I refused and told him to never approach me again like that. If I had brought in anything he and the rest of the inmates would have had me bring in all kinds of stuff. Then someone would have snitched on me and I would have been fired. Question: Why do they tell on the people that are assisting them?

There were numerous affairs between female (and probably male) staff and inmates. They would go on for a few months and the inmate would snitch on the person that he was having an affair with. Why would they do that?

Did you notice that you meet some very nice murders in prison? Most of the murderers were ok and it was the thiefs and such that made life miserable for the staff.

I knew that you could make a tat gun with a cd player and that alot of the work is better than what you see on the outside. Where did they get the ink and did they even try to keep it clean? I would say that over half the inmates in prison have hepatitis. Do they not care or do they not know the risk?

[Blarg]

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You said you watched the WSOP on the TV you bought - how? Was there cable?

Also, where do you buy these types of items from? A special prison seller, or anywhere you want?

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Yeah, the cells have a cable outlet. The channels I got were: BET (naturally), USA, ESPN, CBS, Discovery, ABC, TNT, TBS, SCI FI, NBC, and FOX.

There's a company that makes electronics for prisons. The TV's are made in clear casings so if people try to stash something inside of it, it's visible.

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That kinda blows my mind. I don't even have cable myself.

Did you have to pay extra for the cable, or was it just turned on in every cell for everyone?

[Layzie]

"I worked in medical and one time a prisoner asked me to sneak some black silk socks into the prison. I refused and told him to never approach me again like that. If I had brought in anything he and the rest of the inmates would have had me bring in all kinds of stuff. Then someone would have snitched on me and I would have been fired. Question: Why do they tell on the people that are assisting them?"

Could be several reasons. They might have stood to gain from telling on you, or they might've just not liked you and were just trying to get rid of you.



"There were numerous affairs between female (and probably male) staff and inmates. They would go on for a few months and the inmate would snitch on the person that he was having an affair with. Why would they do that?"

Yeah I haven't touched on this. Officers and inmates screwing around is pretty standard. Also, all the officers generally screw around with each other. If an inmate is sacraficing getting laid to tell on someone, then I would assume they had a very good reason.



"Did you notice that you meet some very nice murders in prison? Most of the murderers were ok and it was the thiefs and such that made life miserable for the staff."

Yeah, as I said, the toughest people to deal with are the younger kids who feel they have to prove themselves. One of the nicest inmates I met had 6 life sentences.


"I knew that you could make a tat gun with a cd player and that alot of the work is better than what you see on the outside. Where did they get the ink and did they even try to keep it clean? I would say that over half the inmates in prison have hepatitis. Do they not care or do they not know the risk?"

The use the soot created from burning the pieces of a chess set as ink. I would assume they do know the risk and don't care. Keep in mind alot of these people aren't ever going home.

[Layzie]

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That kinda blows my mind. I don't even have cable myself.

Did you have to pay extra for the cable, or was it just turned on in every cell for everyone?

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Nope, it's there for everyone. I can't speak on whether or not all prisons have cable, but the ones that i'm familiar with in Virginia all do. It's not a full package though... you get like 13 or 14 channels. Also there is a channel that is hooked to a DVD player, and on weekends they played three movies on repeat. The movies were usually new releases. I saw Crash, Batman Begins, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and others in prison.

[Karakaz]

How do you feel about the three strike rule?

Also, what is your opinion on dishing out sentences where the inmate will never ever see home?

[Blarg]

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Small portions? So then probably most people felt they needed to buy extra food, right? As much as wanted to?

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Has GambleGamble hacked into your account? You seem overly preoccupied with prison portion sizes. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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LOL, no, just wondering about the level of privation felt.

I think being hungry all the time would really cut down on the quality of life, since hunger is such a baseline human thing that hits you on a lot of levels. Being hungry for a while wouldn't be so bad, but being hungry for the rest of your days would I think be a real mental burden, far outside the physical one. It would just feel really, really wrong and unhappy.

[Blarg]

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That kinda blows my mind. I don't even have cable myself.

Did you have to pay extra for the cable, or was it just turned on in every cell for everyone?

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Nope, it's there for everyone. I can't speak on whether or not all prisons have cable, but the ones that i'm familiar with in Virginia all do. It's not a full package though... you get like 13 or 14 channels. Also there is a channel that is hooked to a DVD player, and on weekends they played three movies on repeat. The movies were usually new releases. I saw Crash, Batman Begins, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and others in prison.

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That amazes me.

[Layzie]

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How do you feel about the three strike rule?

Also, what is your opinion on dishing out sentences where the inmate will never ever see home?

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Can you be more specific about the three strike rule? There are alot of three strike rules, and i'm not sure what you're refering to.


Life sentences are necessary in many cases. I'm not really sure where I stand on the death penalty, honestly.

[Karakaz]

3x fellony -> 30 years (California). Other similar statutes in other states.

You talked about some of the nicer guys in prison served life+ -- do you believe they should stay there forever, or should there be a possibility for most prisoners to get out at one (very distant) point?