# What is life like in a military prison?

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**Created:** [August 21, 2008, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-life-like-in-a-military-prison/460832 "2008-08-21T19:28:06Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-life-like-in-a-military-prison/460832/41 "2008-08-26T00:07:43Z")

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Certainly officers in the military are subject to pay reductions under the UCMJ. If they aren’t subject to grade reductions, I wonder why.

My roommate in Germany was an E-4, and a pothead. He got busted on his first urinalysis and was reduced to E-2, served 3 months extra duty and 3 months confinement to barracks as a result of an Article 15.

When he got caught again, he was stripped of his remaining rank and sentenced to Mannheim (a confinement facility in Germany) for 8 months, four months served, and given a BCD (bad conduct discharge).

Don’t smoke pot in the military!

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