Ever been to prison

HOS 1997

Has anyone on here every been to prison?

I, like many I would assume, often say they are like holiday camps but I have never experienced what they really are like.

Has anyone here ever served time in prison and how did you find it?

cml387

Prison?


No

mikom

The first night's the toughest, no doubt about it.
They march you in naked as the day you were born, skin burning and half blind from that delousing **** they throw on you, and when they put you in that cell... and those bars slam home... that's when you know it's for real.
A whole life blown away in the blink of an eye.
Nothing left but all the time in the world to think about it.

RichieC

I heard the prison the refugees have is like a holiday camp.

Micky Dolenz

Yes.

Jarren

I wish


http://www.wipstudios.com/prison/images/Prison-A-Go-GoDVD.gif

MickySticks

Nes

smash

I was there on a school trip in forth year.

44leto

HOS 1997 wrote: »

Has anyone on here every been to prison?

I, like many I would assume, often say they are like holiday camps but I have never experienced what they really are like.

Has anyone here ever served time in prison and how did you find it?

They are not holiday camps, your freedom has been taken away and you are put into an overcrowded place full of dangerous scumbags.

I was never in prison and I really don't think I could survive it, I would be suicidal in no-time.

Samich

went on a school tour once....

Encrypted Pigeon

Jarren wrote: »

I wish


http://www.wipstudios.com/prison/images/Prison-A-Go-GoDVD.gif

The cake is a lie.

benway

Haven't served time, but I've been inside a few different prisons and young offenders centres ... imho anyone who assumes like this:

HOS 1997 wrote: »

they are like holiday camps

doesn't know what they're talking about.

Sky King

Apparently peedos get toymaster catalogues to beat off to.

(Or so a prison guard told me).

krudler

I took a tour of Alcatraz, does that count? I kept looking for a tunnel with flames exploding out of it, its not there, Michael Bay you lying bastard

firedancer

I was in boarding school for five years, felt like prison:mad:

KeithAFC

Yep. Marched them in and give them their blankets.

HOS 1997

44leto wrote: »

They are not holiday camps, your freedom has been taken away and you are put into an overcrowded place full of dangerous scumbags.

I was never in prison and I really don't think I could survive it, I would be suicidal in no-time.

I don't think I could either. Saying they are holiday camps is a throwaway statement that I have often said without really thinking about it.

Corruptedmorals

Mountjoy Women's prison in fairness is better than a hostel- individual rooms- furnished with photos etc. own shower/bathroom, nice communal areas. The men's prison is a totally different world.

Just school visits. The 23-hour lockdown part of Mountjoy where they put rapists and child molestors is scary, they bark!

holystungun9

smash wrote: »

I was there on a school trip in forth year.

Thrown about like a rag doll much?

smash

holystungun9 wrote: »

smash wrote: »

I was there on a school trip in forth year.

Thrown about like a rag doll much?

No. But I wasn't liked much cos I kept singing that oasis song "I'm freeeeeeee to be whatever I, whatever I chose...."

Run_to_da_hills

Not exactly prison but held for 5 hours in a holding cell in a police station in the UK before I was released on bail.

Ted_YNWA

Corruptedmorals wrote: »

Mountjoy Women's prison in fairness is better than a hostel- individual rooms- furnished with photos etc. own shower/bathroom, nice communal areas. The men's prison is a totally different world.

Just school visits. The 23-hour lockdown part of Mountjoy where they put rapists and child molestors is scary, they bark!

Informally called the Jockey Club

decisions

Nope

wonderfulname

Sure, I'm there now.


- posted from my iPhone

Grayson

HOS 1997 wrote: »

I don't think I could either. Saying they are holiday camps is a throwaway statement that I have often said without really thinking about it.

Unless they're coming from somewhere much worse. I'd hate to see that place.

WindSock

What's it to ya?

Sauve

WindSock wrote: »

What's it to ya?

I think he's building up to the real question.
Any minute now....

McCrack

I visited Mountjoy & the Dochas centre before Christmas. Full of hardmen, scummers of both sexes and foreign nationals. Wardens were sound and so were the few inmates I met. They are their own victims, victims of their own circumstances.

It was nice walking back out the gate mind you and so I guess I never visited in the real sense.

Royal Irish

I think the holiday camps expression comes from people watching Banged Up Abroad.

I would take time in Mount Joy over a Venezuelan or Thai prison any day.

TeddyTedson

I went to prison for Cocaine

44leto

TeddyTedson wrote: »

I went to prison for Cocaine

I was sent to that place on Friday for a crime I did not commit. It is a cold and desolate place and you get no thanks, like not one.

I was released on appeal.

TeddyTedson

44leto wrote: »

I was sent to that place on Friday for a crime I did not commit. It is a cold and desolate place and you get no thanks, like not one.

I was released on appeal.

Dark times all right,
Are you reformed after it though?

44leto

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Dark times all right,
Are you reformed after it though?

I am not going back, I nearly got shanked in the shower.

Doc Ruby

HOS 1997 wrote: »

Has anyone on here every been to prison?

Yeah but never as a criminal.

BBDBB

They'll have to catch me first

Crann na Beatha

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Cheeky_gal

"nearly 1 in 4 individuals released from prison will have re-offended and be back in prison before the end of the year. The same study found that 1 in 2 prisoners released will be back in custody within 4 years."

- Taken from Whycare.ie

So it mustn't be that bad in fairness.

44leto

Cheeky_gal wrote: »

"nearly 1 in 4 individuals released from prison will have re-offended and be back in prison before the end of the year. The same study found that 1 in 2 prisoners released will be back in custody within 4 years."

- Taken from Whycare.ie

So it mustn't be that bad in fairness.

You could also interpret that as criminals usually are not the brightest. I don't think they re offend because they miss their mates in prison.

Morgan Freeman

mikom wrote: »

The first night's the toughest, no doubt about it.
They march you in naked as the day you were born, skin burning and half blind from that delousing **** they throw on you, and when they put you in that cell... and those bars slam home... that's when you know it's for real.
A whole life blown away in the blink of an eye.
Nothing left but all the time in the world to think about it.

And that's true.

For I've been there, done that, and ain't never goin' back.

Aenaes

I've heard Mountjoy being called the "free hotel" from people who have served time there.

tuxy

Aenaes wrote: »

I've heard Mountjoy being called the "free hotel" from people who have served time there.

You know slopping out is still a "feature" of Irish prisons?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slopping_out

Sunnyisland

Aeneas wrote: »

I've heard Mountjoy being called the "free hotel" from people who have served time there.

Must have been the prison officers you heard it from

44leto

Aenaes wrote: »

I've heard Mountjoy being called the "free hotel" from people who have served time there.

I met a girl who said she worked in the catering and hotel industry. Its only later I found out she was a POfficer.

Bobby Baccala

Brooks was here.

cocoshovel

Here's a very interesting read about Fuchu prison in Japan. Japan is very civilized compared to some of the more wilder Asian countries, but their prison system still sounds horrible. And not in a way where you have to be afraid of other prisoners.
http://www.prisontalk.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-159095.html

admiralofthefleet

any man who is married is living in a prison

Jimmy Iovine

Morgan Freeman wrote: »

And that's true.

For I've been there, done that, and ain't never goin' back.

A thread about prisons isn't complete without a contribution from Morgan.

charlemont

Yea, On a few occasions, Mostly unpaid fines, Remand for missing court or skipping bail, And I was in doing sentences twice.

Fool's game to be honest, Only done one long stretch spent ten months inside, That was back in 2000/2001.

Only been in for unpaid fines since.

JONJO THE MISER

cocoshovel wrote: »

Here's a very interesting read about Fuchu prison in Japan. Japan is very civilized compared to some of the more wilder Asian countries, but their prison system still sounds horrible. And not in a way where you have to be afraid of other prisoners.
http://www.prisontalk.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-159095.html

Tis a petty we dont have this prison system in Ireland, if he didnt want to go to prison who should not have tried to smuggle drugs into Japan the scumbag deserved everything he got.

Duggy747

krudler wrote: »

I took a tour of Alcatraz, does that count? I kept looking for a tunnel with flames exploding out of it, its not there, Michael Bay you lying bastard

You didn't get to meet Ed Harris and his merry band of mercenaries?

Or were they too busy dealing with Michael Biehn coming up out of the sewers in the jacks?

jay-me

Was in for a stint... And lets just say going in my ass resembled --> o coming out --> O