The CDC is about as minimum security as it gets. There’s not even a fence around the place. Not that any prison is a good place to be, but this has got to be one of the nicer ones.
I have worked with inmates from the CDC on work-release in the past. At one agency we used them as custodial crew. We had a couple of guys who were doing clerical work for us. They seemed pretty well taken care of and about as content as could be expected.
So, it could be much worse.
/in Frankfort
I think having minimum/medium/maximum security prisons is sorting criminals. But even within prison there is some sorting, yes. For example in UK prisons child molesters are frequently kept apart from the rest of the prison population to prevent “prison justice” being served on them.
For a normal well balanced person, being in prison isn’t fun.
You lose control of your life, you can make very few decisions and anything you need or want is in the control of someone else.
Your horizons tend to become very limited, small insignificant things take on importance that is disproportionate, such as maybe not having your washing dry on time, or perhaps the gym hours were cut one morning.
You are usually incarcerated alongside the rejects of society, people who often believe the most idiotic conspiracy stories, people who refuse to hold themselves responsible for anything, and people who have incredibly low levels of education - you would find it difficult to find another prisoner with whom you can hold a sensible conversation.
If you like trivia tv, like Kyle, X-Factor and other utter populist trailer trash rubbish then you’ll be fine.
Even if you decide to achieve something, such as learn a trade, you may well find it is very difficult to find a course that can attain a reasonable ability, the overwhelming majority of education and training is geared to the terminally stupid, there is often very little for anyone with a halfway reasonable level of education, prisons are set up for the types of clients they get.
Your life is on hold, all you are doing for the most part, no matter which type of prison, is getting older, stuff happens outside that fence and you can’t do a damn thing about it.
If you are lucky and well behaved there is a chance you can get to a low security prison where you can get genuine employment with genuine pay, however these places are not at all easy to come by.
For any person of reasonable education and social adjustment, you may well come out and find you are actually more stupid than when you went in, because the company you get in prison seems to suck out all your critical faculties.
Yes there are always exceptions, there are intelligent prisoners etc, however you will find these are vastly outnumbered by the majority, sometimes I wonder how they can remember how to lift a spoon to their mouths to feed.
The vast majority are repeat offenders, they know the system inside out, they complain about how crap it is in prison, but they still keep returning, and the reason that most of them were caught is sloppiness, stupidity and greed.
In UK prisons you can usually get along without much hassle from others, the environment is less agressive than the media would have you belive, even in the higher security rated prisons, keep away from drugs, tobacco, mobile phones and hooch and you won’t get into debt - and this will reduce your chances of having problems with prisoners and staff dramatically.
Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Surely Jeopardy isn’t lumped in with your definition of lowbrow television, right?
Seriously. I looked at the website and still couldn’t figure out why they figured naming a corrections facility like it’s part of DOL would be sensible.
I suspect he’ll either be a “leader of the pack” or pretty damn miserable then. He’s very intelligent, well-schooled, a business owner and in his 40’s with a young teenage daughter.
Stupid fuck. I can’t believe he’s gotten himself into something like this. :mad:
He sounds like a bright guy. Perhaps he found it worth the risk to carry protection.
My brother was at a minimum security prison in Kentucky from '73-'78 and it was a joke. He was allowed outside employment and everything. (Everyone gets a kick out of the fact that he was allowed to work on a small tobacco farm seeing as how he was in prison for cigarette trafficking).
And at least in Kentucky there were many intelligent prisoners, though he said most were heavy into the White Power movement.
Racists in prison. I’m guessing their intelligence was graded on a curve.
In the world of the blind, the one eyed guy is king.
Sometimes.
Other times, the one-eyed guy gets the s**t beaten out of him by all the blind guys for spouting nonsense about this so called “seeing”.
There is a book by Jim Hogshire “You are Going to Prison” that has every bit of information that the soon to be incarcerated and their family need.
I hope your cousins’ time goes smooth and quick.
This Ask the Former Prisoner thread was interesting.
Thanks Siam Sam. That was a very moving thread.