Oh FFS. No one feels 'safe and cared for' or 'comfortable in prison'. Prison already 'really sucks'. Have you ever known someone in prison or been inside a max-security prison? It's f*cking primal. Very few ex-cons "do something stupid" so they can go home "to the life they are comfortable in." They're mean, ignorant f*ck-ups who got meaner and dumber inside.
No Alpha, I have only known those, men and woman that have to work day after day around these criminals.
Yes I do know a few people that have done time, they were the lucky ones that had their family waiting for them, they had housing, food and a job waiting and managed to turn themselves around to become productive to society.
Girlfriend worked for Corrections for years, County Lock up, darn strongest and bravest woman I have yet to meet. Just a little thing about 5' 4 120 lbs and only her sense of humor saved her sanity.
She is the one that pointed out to me the fact that the same people kept coming back year after year. She pointed out that the street lingo was anyone in jail for 12 months was considered to be on VACATION for that year.
For me listening to her storeys of her job, beefing against the other officers, the drug trade inside the walls, the corruption of the places she worked as an internal guard, the bad and the good that by fate ended up under her watch, fascinating to hear first hand accounts of life on the other side.
She worked over 20 years in correctional facilities then moved on and worked in social services in a big city. Big mistake for her, at no time had she working with, escorting prisoners or other duties been harmed.
Less then a year in social work she had 3 ribs broken, As she says she had been knocked down 50 times but thank the Lord never knocked up.
You are correct Alpha I have never been inside a Prison or a Jail, only time I have been in a police station was to ask direction in someone Else's town.
I have to remember her storeys as she is a she and was not a male trying to impress me.
Primal conditions, what dirt floors, slop once a day for food, a bucket to poop in, sleep on the floor, no visitors, no Pastor, no heat or cooling, no showers, no clean clothing, rats running through the cell day and night, no mail, no TV no RADIO, no books, no education for anyone, no GED or college classes. No law libraries to search to find a reason to appeal, no medical or dental care.
When you find a prison like this in America give me a shout, we the people will close that sucker down in a heart beat.
