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randomacct8162
5y ago
> "if that is allowed discrimination outside certain roles how can those people ever be expected back to society? Ofc, they are going to do more crime if it is their only realistic option for reasonable income." And you
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5y ago
FWIW, I am not against the death penalty. It makes much more economic sense than life in prison (it costs ludicrous amounts of money to house prisoners per-annua) and as someone who has done prison time my personal opinion is I'd rathe
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5y ago
I won't sling mud, but the jobs are the same you can already get as a felon (construction, kitchen, hospitality, factory, etc) and I had a negative experience with my interaction there Thank you for looking though. I think it's im
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5y ago
I was on computers a lot as a kid and sort of taught myself programming (very poorly) in my early years. When I caught this charge, I had just turned 18. It really ruined my life. Currently, I work in tech. For a very long time I was barely
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5y ago
Thank you for doing that, it's an important job. I learned spanish by taking an hour-long spanish class every weekday while I was in there. If your class wasn't mandatory, then I'm sure you know that most people were just the
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5y ago
I did have one positive interaction with a guard that stood out to me from my time in there I was being transported to a hospital for a medical procedure, and I was talking to the guard who taking me, to pass the time. I asked him why on ea
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5y ago
The first two weeks were very difficult. You have to sort of mentally come to peace with the fact that you're shut in this tiny room and you can't leave. It feels very claustrophobic and if you're the type that has anxiety di
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No, not at all. The thing I think most law-abiding/normal people don't understand about the types of people in prisons is that they are almost exclusively habitual offenders. Even in the US, which is heavily punitive instead of re
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5y ago
I spent 3 years in US prisons for drug charges picked up when I was an addict and did a 90-day stint in solitary for breaking up a fight between two acquaintances. AMA. I'll start with: Yes, "fishing" is one of the first thin