What's life really like in prison?

[Pommygranite]

My mum was a nurse in Wakefield (?) woman's prison. She said it was amazing how many were in for sexual crimes, specifically against children.

My brother was in Ford Open for being a nobhead petty crim. said it was an easy life, no raping, a few fights but mostly like butlins but without the fat chicks.

[Studio117]

'Don't drop the soap' is another ph meme that gets trotted out every time 'prison' is mentioned.

You're more likely to get bummed while having a few beers in Bangkok than serving time in HMP Wandsworth.

Most ex-cons i know aren't keen on discussing their time inside, not because they got gang raped but just because its actually really st place to be and will always require disclosure for jobs etc.

I think once you've done a stretch it must be very difficult to come back and lead a normal life.

[DanielSan]

I know someone who got out not long ago, got sent to a low security prison after what sounded like a complete shambles of a case.

Spent 9 months basically pissing about every day and having nothing to do but play snooker. He says the worst part about it was the knowing you couldn't go anywhere else, but the actual being there wasn't too bad just dull and boring.

[Vanin]

Wacky Racer said:

Ever watched "If"?

Yes, it was actually shown to us while we were at the school which I thought was a tad risky!

[Spanglepants]

My best mate is friends with a female prison guard and she's says there are far more women in prison for this than most people realise.

Pommygranite said:

My mum was a nurse in Wakefield (?) woman's prison. She said it was amazing how many were in for sexual crimes, specifically against children.

My brother was in Ford Open for being a nobhead petty crim. said it was an easy life, no raping, a few fights but mostly like butlins but without the fat chicks.

[King Herald]

I did two days in jail in Thailand, and 24 hours in jail in the Philippines. It was a doddle.......




Cue jokes about billy boys etc. I know it has to be done gents, so hurry along.

[Hilts]

Studio117 said:

I think once you've done a stretch it must be very difficult to come back and lead a normal life.

You got that quite right. Too right, even especially if you were never involved with any form of criminality in the past.

So I hear.

[matchmaker]

Hilts said:

Studio117 said:

I think once you've done a stretch it must be very difficult to come back and lead a normal life.

You got that quite right. Too right, even especially if you were never involved with any form of criminality in the past.

So I hear.

Generally speaking, wrong. I was released in 2000 after serving 6 months of a 12 month sentence. Apart from people from my past who won't forget about it (and I ignore them), I live a normal life. None of my workmates know about it (I told the MD at my job interview about my conviction. He thanked me for my honesty and is now retired anyway). The conviction has been spent for some time.

I had spent a completely blameless life up till my conviction. It wasn't easy to readjust initially, but it didn't take too long.

[Hilts]

matchmaker said:

Hilts said:

Studio117 said:

I think once you've done a stretch it must be very difficult to come back and lead a normal life.

You got that quite right. Too right, even especially if you were never involved with any form of criminality in the past.

So I hear.

Generally speaking, wrong.

Generally speaking, what you mean to say is short sentences, right?

[pork911]

King Herald said:

I did two days in jail in Thailand, and 24 hours in jail in the Philippines. It was a doddle.......




Cue jokes about billy boys etc. I know it has to be done gents, so hurry along.

How much was the tea money?


Did a few weeks in Burma - t'was all a misunderstanding quite an experience though

[GG89]

I know a few people who have had not inconsiderable stints inside and one who is currently in. From anyone I've spoken to who has been in it is a piece of piss, unless you're a target for 1 reason or another. But for the majority it is a cakewalk.

[pork911]

GG89 said:

I know a few people who have had not inconsiderable stints inside and one who is currently in. From anyone I've spoken to who has been in it is a piece of piss, unless you're a target for 1 reason or another. But for the majority it is a cakewalk.

And how many of them do you believe?

[GG89]

pork911 said:

GG89 said:

I know a few people who have had not inconsiderable stints inside and one who is currently in. From anyone I've spoken to who has been in it is a piece of piss, unless you're a target for 1 reason or another. But for the majority it is a cakewalk.

And how many of them do you believe?

All of them.

[bga]

Fishtigua said:

A mate is vicar of Dartmoor prison. That is very much not a holiday camp. He does his best for them but some are beyond even God's help.

My mum was a nurse in Plymouth in the 70's. Part of the training involved spending a few weeks working at Dartmoor and she certainly didn't describe it as a nice place to be.

[King Herald]

pork911 said:

King Herald said:

I did two days in jail in Thailand, and 24 hours in jail in the Philippines. It was a doddle.......




Cue jokes about billy boys etc. I know it has to be done gents, so hurry along.

How much was the tea money?


Did a few weeks in Burma - t'was all a misunderstanding quite an experience though

I ate and drank nothing, as the toilet was but a public hole in the ground, in a courtyard, in the centre of all the cages, in full view of everybody, and no wall around it. I didn't want to have to use it.....

Friends held sarongs up for other inmates, but I had no friends. And I was the only foreigner.

[giblet]

Pommygranite said:

My mum was a nurse in Wakefield (?) woman's prison. She said it was amazing how many were in for sexual crimes, specifically against children.

HMP New Hall? Worked there up until Feb last year along with a few other prisons with DHL. First experience of prisons and overall they didn't seem that grim to me.

[pork911]

GG89 said:

pork911 said:

GG89 said:

I know a few people who have had not inconsiderable stints inside and one who is currently in. From anyone I've spoken to who has been in it is a piece of piss, unless you're a target for 1 reason or another. But for the majority it is a cakewalk.

And how many of them do you believe?

All of them.

More fool you.

[pork911]

King Herald said:

pork911 said:

King Herald said:

I did two days in jail in Thailand, and 24 hours in jail in the Philippines. It was a doddle.......




Cue jokes about billy boys etc. I know it has to be done gents, so hurry along.

How much was the tea money?


Did a few weeks in Burma - t'was all a misunderstanding quite an experience though

I ate and drank nothing, as the toilet was but a public hole in the ground, in a courtyard, in the centre of all the cages, in full view of everybody, and no wall around it. I didn't want to have to use it.....

Friends held sarongs up for other inmates, but I had no friends. And I was the only foreigner.

I meant tea money so that the stint was short

I asked for a single room preferably with a/c or fan at a push, but strangely they had none available.

Felt like an animal in a zoo....within a zoo.

I left before my novelty wore off.

[matchmaker]

pork911 said:

GG89 said:

pork911 said:

GG89 said:

I know a few people who have had not inconsiderable stints inside and one who is currently in. From anyone I've spoken to who has been in it is a piece of piss, unless you're a target for 1 reason or another. But for the majority it is a cakewalk.

And how many of them do you believe?

All of them.

More fool you.

Quite right. It wasn't a piece of piss - and I wasn't a target. A nasty place - as it's supposed to be!

[mph1977]

giblet said:

Pommygranite said:

My mum was a nurse in Wakefield (?) woman's prison. She said it was amazing how many were in for sexual crimes, specifically against children.

HMP New Hall? Worked there up until Feb last year along with a few other prisons with DHL. First experience of prisons and overall they didn't seem that grim to me.

the female prison population is different from the male prison propulation . there are a lot of emotionally inadequate and a bit guillible women in the prison population - often becasue they do things to get approval of their brighter and manipulative friends of either gender... while there are some men in prison who fit that picture there's alot more men in prison who are there for other reasons.