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Some of them are really, really smart people who grew up in situations that didn't allow them to get anywhere except by this kind of manipulation. And they hav
by Vivtek 17y ago
Some of them are really, really smart people who grew up in situations that didn't allow them to get anywhere except by this kind of manipulation. And they have nothing else to do, every day, for years.
I knew a guy once who had worked as a guard at a maximum-security prison in Kentucky. Their prisoners were this kind of guy - often brilliant. He said you literally couldn't leave a candy wrapper in their cell because they would make a knife of it (not joking, this was his very example, and he knew a guy who'd been cut with just such a knife) and try to escape.
Even knowing they couldn't escape, they just had nothing better to do with their time. And they've got a lot of time.
- eru 17y agoBy the way, do you know what prisoners are allowed to do with their time? I guess they are technically allowed to have books. How about computers, or even internet access? Historical anecdote: In the 19th century there was this German inventor and entrepeneur, named Ernst Werner von Siemens. He took part in a duel and was sentenced to a (mild form of) prison. He used the time there to make several inventions. And at the end he even asked for extending his sentence.
- Vivtek 17y agoI think it entirely depends on the prison.