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I served 18 years straight. I'd say somewhere around the 7 or 8 year mark my view of the situation changed. It was no longer prison, it was just my life. Nothing ever changed. Every day was the same. You get in a never changing routine and before you know it 5 years go by. Then 10, then 15. The real world becomes a fantasy. Something you see on TV, or pictures in magazine, but it's no longer real. One day you look in the mirror and your hair is receding, and it's turning gray, in your mind your socially stunted and in a lot of ways child like, but you're old. I went in at 18 and came out a 37 year old man who didn't know how to do anything. I'd never used a cell phone or computer. I'd never driven a car or filed my taxes. The world was too big, too loud, too fast. My second day out my sister took me to Walmart and I had a panic attack and had to go outside and sit in the car by myself. I could make a tattoo gun out of an electric razor, boil water with an extension cord, and sits for months on end by myself in a room with a sink, concrete bunk and metal toilet without breaking a sweat. But I couldn't hold a job, operate any electronics without help, or go to Walmart without freaking the fuck out. I didn't know how to cook, or how to pay a bill. I sat home by myself for months, afraid to go anywhere or talk to people. A big part of me wanted to be back in prison where things made sense, where I thrived.
I've been out for over 5 years now, and while I've learned to do a lot of things, it's still not easy. I dream alot of being in prison. Where's it's easy. No responsibility. And believe it or not, less stress and anxiety. I've been in institutions my whole life, since I was a little kid. Foster homes, group homes, treatment centers, juvenile detentions. It's what I know. It's where I'm comfortable. I don't know if that will ever change.
I hope this answers your question.

The fuck is this from? Why no link, just a straight up copy and paste with zero context.

The fuck is this from? Why no link, just a straight up copy and paste with zero context.

Quora.

Wow, ok thanks. Great topic. Very thought provoking.

Now do one from the perspective of his victim.

The fuck is this from? Why no link, just a straight up copy and paste with zero context.

Weird melty

Not so weird. It's a zero context topic. A straight up copy and paste with no source. I expect better from topic creators. Have some standards, my dude.

Not so weird. It's a zero context topic. A straight up copy and paste with no source. I expect better from topic creators. Have some standards, my dude.

TC asked, How hard is it really to do time in prison?

I like how you just accept there's no context and this seems normal to you.

Like why do you care so much? Theres no need for context. Just the perspective from someone who entered the system young and was socially stunted by living their whole adult life inside.

Theres no need for context.

Because context is everything. You're not curious where tc got this from, or if they typed it up themselves? Was it from an article, from a movie, from a documentary? Was it from a real person, from an ai or, maybe a fictional character?

How can you accept a block of text and not be curious about it and just accept it with zero context?

You seem like someone who scrolls past a headline and then thinks you have the whole story.

You seme to have no idea how much this says about you and how much of a red flag it is.

Lol who is this guy?

Weird melty

Prisons make next to no effort to release inmates better than they entered.

Because context is everything. You're not curious where tc got this from, or if they typed it up themselves? Was it from an article, from a movie, from a documentary? Was it from a real person, from an ai or, maybe a fictional character?

How can you accept a block of text and not be curious about it and just accept it with zero context?

You seem like someone who scrolls past a headline and then thinks you have the whole story.

You seme to have no idea how much this says about you and how much of a red flag it is.

Because context is everything. You're not curious where tc got this from, or if they typed it up themselves? Was it from an article, from a movie, from a documentary? Was it from a real person, from an ai or, maybe a fictional character?

How can you accept a block of text and not be curious about it and just accept it with zero context?

You seem like someone who scrolls past a headline and then thinks you have the whole story.

You seme to have no idea how much this says about you and how much of a red flag it is.

Why does it matter if CE doesn't care about proper sourcing?

what a freakish post, it's obviously some random guy's perspective. why does context matter here.

Its not hard to imagine that someone who went to prison at 18 and was released at 37 would have few life skills and be more comfortable back in prison. It doesnt matter if TCs specific example is from a real person or not

It's also not hard to imagine that the moon is made of cheese either. After all, it's just imagination.

That doesn't mean that it is indeed made of cheese.

From what I've studied it would be a hell of a lot easier if it didn't involve anyone else. The thing that makes hard time hard seems to be a need to clique up if you don't want to be a target of things like jailhouse robbery. And once you're in you're expected to put in work so any attempt at keeping one's nose clean and doing smooth time is undermined simply for not wanting to be harassed and victimized.

The real problem seems to be the prison staff do so little to help those who have no interest in prison politics and just want a clean run through their sentence. Boxing everyone together regardless of their motives towards their incarceration just causes issues (some cons just want to live the life, they're incorrigibleor "institutionalized" in prison parlanceand when too many of them are living the life in one place it suffocates those who don't want to become that). Some prisons do actually commit to rehabilitation but the opportunities are not afforded to everyone and if you can't participate then it's like you're on your own and that just leads back to having to fall back to whatever belonging you can find to survive.

Weird melty

I just wanna know what crime would land you 18 years in jail at age 18.

Plenty. Robbery, assault, various weapons crimeshave your pick.

So there is tons of prison rape?

"Prisoners can be understandably reluctant to report abuse. If a prisoner is being abused by another inmate, reporting the occurrence can result in negative consequences at the hands of the perpetrator or his or her allies. Guards and wardens may not take the allegations seriously, and they may not take appropriate steps to protect a reporter from retaliation. Conversely, prisoners who report abuse may be segregated from the general population and kept in solitary confinement or otherwise deleterious conditions.

Because of this, it is difficult to know how many unreported cases of sexual abuse actually occur. Peer-reviewed research studies suggest that rates of sexual victimization in prison could be as high as 41 percent or as low as less than 1 percent, although a recent meta-analysis proposes that an estimate of about 1.9 percent would be a conservative likely average."

Because context is everything. You're not curious where tc got this from, or if they typed it up themselves? Was it from an article, from a movie, from a documentary? Was it from a real person, from an ai or, maybe a fictional character?

How can you accept a block of text and not be curious about it and just accept it with zero context?

You seem like someone who scrolls past a headline and then thinks you have the whole story.

You seme to have no idea how much this says about you and how much of a red flag it is.

From what I've studied it would be a hell of a lot easier if it didn't involve anyone else. The thing that makes hard time hard seems to be a need to clique up if you don't want to be a target of things like jailhouse robbery. And once you're in you're expected to put in work so any attempt at keeping one's nose clean and doing smooth time is undermined simply for not wanting to be harassed and victimized.

The real problem seems to be the prison staff do so little to help those who have no interest in prison politics and just want a clean run through their sentence. Boxing everyone together regardless of their motives towards their incarceration just causes issues (some cons just want to live the life, they're incorrigibleor "institutionalized" in prison parlanceand when too many of them are living the life in one place it suffocates those who don't want to become that). Some prisons do actually commit to rehabilitation but the opportunities are not afforded to everyone and if you can't participate then it's like you're on your own and that just leads back to having to fall back to whatever belonging you can find to survive.

I just think it's strange there are people who WANT to be well-behaved prisoners and they simply can't be when things like race relations enter into it and potentially make them both a target for harassment and recruitment from less ideally-minded inmates looking for new bodies.

I like how you just accept there's no context and this seems normal to you.

Now do one from the perspective of his victim.

This is a story that is very similar to several I've heard. I work in a prison btw. Like the Walmart thing I heard a story of someone freaking out going to the grocery story after being locked up a long time ago because of all the choices they had. They where not used to having choices you had one brand to chose from for any food item and that was it.

This is more common in people locked up young. We call it being institutionalized. They became way more comfortable in prison than anywhere else

You do no service to society by incarcerating somebody with no rehabilitation, education or training so that when they come out all they really have as an option is more crime and more victims.

Imagine sending someone to prison for a dui and they come out a hardened criminal