It's full of bad people with a history of bad choices.Quote:
Originally Posted by BeardoMSU
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It's full of bad people with a history of bad choices.Quote:
Originally Posted by BeardoMSU
True, but bad choices of varying degree....that distinctionmatters. A lot. Plus, the entire point of prison is for one to pay their debt to society, and in some cases, make it out one day and be a functioning member of said society. That's not what the system does, currently.Quote:
Originally Posted by starkvegasdawg
prob take some taxes being raised to make sum these dudes into functioning members of anything. they gotta want to first
I remember going to Parchman on a field trip in 9th grade. It was part of a class- I wasn't a "bad kid" or anything. But they did have some prisoners speak to us- pretty much a watered down version of scared straight except where they acted mean and tough except they didn't get in anyone's face and all of that.Quote:
Originally Posted by BeardoMSU
But I was absolutely shocked at the time when they talked about raping people and making shanks- and they showed us some- and all of that. And my thought was "what are the prison guards doing the whole time?"
It's a totally different culture where certain other individuals enforce things.
From what I have seen on TV- I thought the "non-violent offenders" were kept in one area and the violent ones were in "General population" or whatever? Unless you were someone that did drugs and acted up in minimum security and then you got transferred to GP?Quote:
Originally Posted by BeardoMSU
Oxford now has 2 upcoming murder trials, both of which could be made for TV movies. The officer charged with the shooting of the girlfriend and now the sardis lake murder are two very very interesting cases. I expect a change of venue attempt in the case of the police officer's trial. With the Farese Firm representing the Theesfeld guy, they could hold court in the Pavilion and sell tickets as most courtrooms won't accommodate the large number of on lookers.
No doubt. They’ve had several shows on the Jessica Chambers murder. Unfortunately, they’ll never convict the guy responsible for her murder.Quote:
Originally Posted by timotheus
Both these will be under a different DA so I expect better and smoother proceedings.
Oh yeah, I was referring to the tv shows that will definitely be coming.Quote:
Originally Posted by timotheus
Yup. We shouldn't put people in a place like Parchman or Angola unless the expectation is that they'll never leave. I know not all camps in Parchman are the same, but none of them are conducive to helping somebody become a functioning member of society and most of them are likely to produce somebody more warped than the person that went in.Quote:
Originally Posted by BeardoMSU
That mother 17er looked exactly like I thought he would. Wow. That is what a sociopath looks like when they try to blend in with the UM guys. Looks just like them. Perfect camo.
From talking to folks in town it seems that this guy didn't really need close friends because he thought so highly of himself. I just do not understand why he thought this ending would be a solution to anything. He has ruined his victims family as well as what family he had left.
Damn, y’all went to Parchman? They brought the prisoners to us at the school.
They told their stories about your first night in Parchman and how they gain your trust only to deliver a bill to you late one night by bending you over a barrel.
When we got to the QandA one student asked the prisoner if that scenario happened to him. The prisoner got mad and started cussing the student. They escort the prisoner out of the gym.
Hilarious. If You had been there.
Guy I went to high school with ended up being a guard in the max security section of Parchman. I ran into him one day at Walmart and asked him if the stereotype of prison life was true. He looked me dead in the eye and said if you go to prison it's not a question of if you get raped. It's a question of when you get raped and how often you get raped. Said if you go there you will be raped and not a damn thing the guards can do to stop it. And that included the max security section.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maroonthirteen
I had a friend who majored in criminal justice in college. There was some study done where over half the respondents admitted to engaging in consensual same sex encounters (for lack of a better word) in prison, men and women. These were people that weren't gay and went back to heterosexual relationships after release.
I personally know a female who engaged in lesbian activity while locked up for an extended time. She is now out and doing well and is not a lesbian. I also know of 2 guys who both were in parchman for several years and multiple stays. They said it is pure hell 24/7.
When I was in the 8th grade, 1969, they took us on a class trip to Parchman. I remember the guide getting tee'd off because some of us wanted to see the gas chamber in addition to the old electric chair. I think they were still using the old trustee system back then and there was a lot of work going on in the fields. I bought a homemade knife from a trustee for a souvenir. He was allowed to sell this and other items. Still seems weird today. Times have changed, but that trip stayed with us all.