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

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My sister was locked up at vienna. She was in the bootcamp though, its not the same grounds but is the same admin. The bootcamp was minminmin-sec.

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I am familiar. The male bootcampers would occassionally come through the regular prison gates for a day or two and do menial tasks. I kind of wish I was given the bootcamp option, but it's for people who have more time to do and the state's attorney wanted me to do 'real' time.

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A few friends of mine went through a similar situation to yours, and all ended up in bootcamp. My senior year of high school (spring 2001) four guys in my class were arrested for LSD possession with one arrested for intent to sell (approx. 200 hits on him). The county prosecuter tried to use the case for his political gain. The whole thing was being investigated for a few weeks after one guy (some random buyer) was found with a few hits on him when stopped in C-U (seeing LSD in a [censored] area of urbana sparked alot of interest from the police i guess). Anyways, the prosecuter had all the kids arrested at high school in the middle of the day, news cameras happened to be there, and the prosecuter was all over the local news bragging about how they had put a stop to a high school "LSD ring."
In the end, 3 of the 4 ended up with bootcamp (one got basically a slap on the wrist, it was always thought that there was some snitching involved, but don't really know). Those three were all initially charged with class X felonies (i'm not sure if they were the small or big class X ones), but ended up with bootcamp as they were all essentially first time offenders. Also, the kid with 200 hits was obviously dealing, and had actually sold to the random guy in urbana who was caught with 2 hits to start the whole investigation.

This was all at st. joseph-ogden high school, not sure if you're familiar, but it's right outside of C-U. There were also 2 kids arrested as a result of the investigation at mahomet seymour high school, but I have no idea what their fate was.

Just thought i'd share the story, it's a shame you couldn't have gone through the bootcamp program. From everything I remember at the time, it seems like it was designed almost specifically for cases like yours. Great story though, thanks for taking the time.

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yeah, I'm very familiar with St. Joe-Ogden. I'm pretty much a townie/student mix after the decade in the area. It really sucks that the criminal justice system works more toward the lower peons rather than busting the organizers/enablers of the drug rings.

I think since I was 19-20 when busted, I was at the upper end of the boot camp idea.

There was also a concern over my medical history. I had recently gone through ACL reconstruction and rehab and my second set of ingrown toe nail removals on both big toes.