[Blue Violet]

Ok, I too know people who have been in jail AND prison. I did community service (voluntary I assure you!)in one teaching inmates to read. It is NOT comfortable. It is NOT nice, It is NOT friendly, It is NOT enjoyable.

One lady I was teaching had to wait THREE days to get a SINGLE aspirin for her MIGRAIN. For those of you whoo have suffered a migrain you know what I mean I say I'd rather be dead than have one for three days.

Another was having severe stomach pains and couldn't get out of bed for a week. They just gave her alaxitive about a week later. Three months after she got out the same thing happend and it turned out to be an ovarian cyst rupture.



The food, not decent at all. The reason why candy bars and cokes and chips and stuff are for SALE ( the family of the inmate puts money in an account for them) is because the meals they are served are slightly less then minimal. A grown man could not honestly live on the three SMALL meals they are provided. They bargain with their people. One of the guys I taught had moremoney in his account and pretty much ate one meal a day from jail and had snack the other two because the food actually made him sick. So he auctioned off his food to other inmates who did not have money in their account and were really hungry. This was not a bad jail either. it was a fairly decent county jail as far as jails go.

And the guards. Ever met one. They are one step away from being inmates. They are not educated hardly at all (hello they are prison guards-you don't even need a highschool diploma to be one and they GIVE YOU A GUN) These guards are nasty, about as uneducated as the inmated from how I hear them talk, sadistic (whi says i want to be a prison guard when I grow up?) Most of the guards i encountered were so nasty-and i was there to help! Most were military basic training failures/ drop outs or people who tried to get into the police acadamy and were rejected. ANYONE can get a job as a prison guard. It pays less than a teacher, less than a policeman. Anyone heard of "power tripping?"

The reason Many (not all) are in jail is because they can;t read, a life of crime is what they LEARNED from there parents and they honestly didn;t know much better.

Now they do need to pay their time. Agreed. but it is so much cheaper to educate than incarcerate. if they are not educated they will be a burden on society forever. The majority of people incarcerated (FACT-not a made up statistic) have below a 4th grade reading level. Crime is all they are qualified to do. Teach them to read and you solve half (not all) your problem.

What they really ought to do is make all people on welfare get a shot of depo prevera before they can have their monthly check. that would eliminate a lot of the slime out there.

Remember that drinking a beer was once a jailable offense in our country. you can't jusdge everyone by the same standards. A person in jail for getting in a bar fight doesn;t exactly desearve the same punishment as a serial killer.

Also, the reason why people in jail don't revolt is because they do have something to do. You have to keep people busy in order to keep them behaved.

And they do work. That food ain;t catered that's for sure. they clean it, fix all the meals, do all the landscape, wash all the clothes, work in the library, go out on work detail picking up garbage etc. They do not lounge around in the sun all day playing vollyball. And as far as the mens jails go-try not being able to sleep at night because people want to kick your ass. You think racism is bad in the real world? Try going to jail. Blacks HATE whites and the whites gotta stick together to stay alive and vice versa.

Yes they belong there. But you have to make it livable. NOT enjoyable, but livable.

And if you are in JAIL (not prison) the cost of your meals is added on each day to your court fees and fines so when you get out jail gives you a bill and you have to pay it on time or you go back to jail as a violation of probation.

Now the child molesters and stuff like they-rest assured, jail has it's own form of justice if you know what I mean. Jeffrey Dahmer didn;t last long. The inmates killed him.