I just spent 40 years in prison. [What do states provide to prisoners after leaving prison?}

[Little_Nemo]

@szabrocki

A one way buss ticket to anywhere buss’s run?

In New York, you get a bus ticket to any location in the state.

[Little_Nemo]

@kayaker

Thank you.

My son is a corrections officer at a prison in Florida. He loves his job. I used to ask if “anything interesting happened at work today” but I stopped because what he told me freaked me out.

I used to tell people the unofficial motto of corrections is “We keep interesting things from happening.”

[Little_Nemo]

@md2000

I presume you’d have the same eligibility for welfare as anyone who had not worked in 40 years.

They obviously can’t toss you out in a prison uniform or with on clothes on, so there would be some form of clothing process. They may or may not have your clothes from 40 years ago, but those may not fit. (or are buried in the evidence archive in the courthouse)

We provide prisoners with a suit for release. We also do that for a court appearance.

[Colibri]

@Wesley_Clark

A job bagging groceries until you hang yourself.

Moderator Note

Given the OP’s circumstances, this is an extremely jerkish thing to say. No warning issued, but let’s stick to the question asked.

Colibri
General Questions Moderator

[kayaker]

@Colibri

Moderator Note

Given the OP’s circumstances, this is an extremely jerkish thing to say. No warning issued, but let’s stick to the question asked.

Colibri
General Questions Moderator

Pssst, the OP joined in 06 and has made occasional posts since. I think this is a hypothetical though awkwardly written.
ETA: apologies to all if I’m wrong or have been wooshed.

[Sparky812]

@szabrocki

… Say, I just got out of prison after a 40 year sentence, no probation. (Don’t need answer fast)…

@kayaker

…Does anyone really serve a lengthy sentence and not get out with parole/probation?..

I’m not sure if this is the same everywhere but (around here) probation is a suspended sentence with conditions similar to parole in lieu of jail time. If you serve any time that would preclude probation.

[Sparky812]

@Wesley_Clark

A job bagging groceries until you hang yourself.

@Colibri

Moderator Note

Given the OP’s circumstances, this is an extremely jerkish thing to say. No warning issued, but let’s stick to the question asked.

Colibri
General Questions Moderator

@kayaker

Pssst, the OP joined in 06 and has made occasional posts since. I think this is a hypothetical though awkwardly written.
ETA: apologies to all if I’m wrong or have been wooshed.

Yes, I believe **Colibri ** and yourself have missed the reference.
Wesley Clark’s post was alluding to Red (Morgan Freeman’s role) in Shawshank Redemption.

[kayaker]

@Sparky812

Yes, I believe **Colibri ** and yourself have missed the reference.
Wesley Clark’s post was alluding to Red (Morgan Freeman’s role) in Shawshank Redemption.

I got the reference, but the OP is a hypothetical regardless, verdad?

[Bijou_Drains]

@Jasmine

After forty years in prison, do you actually have any family or friends at all or a place to go? I think I would destroy some sinks in the washroom and get my sentence extended. That seems like a much better option than going out into a world that you don’t know with nothing and nowhere to go.

You could have siblings or cousins and maybe children. You might have friends who were in prison with you and are now out.

[Sparky812]

@kayaker

I got the reference, but the OP is a hypothetical regardless, verdad?

Agreed.

[cornflakes]

@Gatopescado

I think Texas give you a coffin and an unmarked grave.

@bump

Pretty sure we give you a marker too, if that’s how you’re leaving prison…

Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery - Wikipedia

Gatopescado may have been referring to the bodies found on land that used to be part of the Imperial State Prison Farm, a sugar plantation that was also the basis for the song “Ain’t No More Cane on the Brazos.”

Mass graves in Sugar Land unearth horrifying chapter the history books forgot [Editorial]

[Colibri]

@kayaker

Pssst, the OP joined in 06 and has made occasional posts since. I think this is a hypothetical though awkwardly written.
ETA: apologies to all if I’m wrong or have been wooshed.

@Sparky812

Yes, I believe **Colibri **and yourself have missed the reference.
Wesley Clark’s post was alluding to Red (Morgan Freeman’s role) in Shawshank Redemption.

Yeah, I admit that I didn’t look at the join date, and it wasn’t clear that the OP was a hypothetical. So I withdraw the note.

Even so, if you are going to make references of this kind in GQ, it’s best to indicate the source. I’ve seen Shawshank Redemption, but haven’t memorized every line, and most other posters haven’t either.

[Llama_Llogophile]

Here’s a good NY Times article on the subject.

[Omar_Little]

@Sparky812

Yes, I believe **Colibri ** and yourself have missed the reference.
Wesley Clark’s post was alluding to Red (Morgan Freeman’s role) in Shawshank Redemption.

Red, didn’t hang himself, Brooks did. When Red get’s out prison and is staying in the same halfway house, he finds that Brooks has scrawled on the beam that he hung himself on, “Brooks was here”.

[kayaker]

@Omar_Little

Red, didn’t hang himself, Brooks did. When Red get’s out prison and is staying in the same halfway house, he finds that Brooks has scrawled on the beam that he hung himself on, “Brooks was here”.

“Get busy living, or get busy dying.”

[Sparky812]

@Omar_Little

Red, didn’t hang himself, Brooks did. When Red get’s out prison and is staying in the same halfway house, he finds that Brooks has scrawled on the beam that he hung himself on, “Brooks was here”.

Yes, you’re correct. I was trying to keep it simple. Red followed in Brooks footsteps after release but did not follow through with hanging himself.

[szabrocki]

Sorry, it was hypothetical. My bad on a poorly placed comma. Thanks to all that responded! You confirmed my suspicions that you are pretty much on your own.

[Broomstick]

@md2000

I presume you’d have the same eligibility for welfare as anyone who had not worked in 40 years.

Convicted drug felons can not get food stamps or most other forms of what passes for “welfare” these days, so you are incorrect at least on that point.

[md2000]

@Broomstick

Convicted drug felons can not get food stamps or most other forms of what passes for “welfare” these days, so you are incorrect at least on that point.

Cant get welfare, cant get a job with a record, and probably too old, probably no support from family etc. after 40 years.

What’s wrong with this picture?

[psychonaut]

@Arkcon

The municipality has spent lots of money housing, feeding, and guarding the prisoner.

Has it? Aren’t American prisons (at least, those at which someone would serve a 40-year sentence) operated by or at the behest of the state or federal governments?