Would you go out with someone who had been to prison?

Eric Cartman wrote: »

would be crime dependant

drugs : yeah
any form of violent crime against men : no
political lark : unless its for lefty hippy stuff then yeah sure
fraud : perfect match id say

But violent crime against women is OK then? :P

To answer the question, I would say no to drug-dealers, robbers, gang members, murderers and any kind of general scumbaggery.
Petty crime is ok as long as they're reformed now.

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Didn't we have a thread like this before where someone found out their BF was on crimeline?

If you found out your other half was on Crimeline, I'm not sure the internet would be my first stop in all honesty.

Prison means nothing, sure you get jail for not paying TV licence or bin charges, the should give medals for resisting the sh1te RTE dripfeed viewers.

The real question would be would I go with someone who's committed a crime. The answer would really depend on the crime and the person. Mostly the crime though, simply because there are some crimes that are beyond the pale and you can't be reformed, such as rape. Interestingly, I don't think murder (obviously in certain circumstances) is one. TBH I don't agree entirely with what Padraig Nally did, but if he was a young, 18-22 female, and ginger, she'd get the shift

It depends on what they did and if they regretted their crimes and were really sorry for the hurt and pain they caused their victims.

I went to Kilmainham Jail on a school tour when I was about 10. Is that why I can't get chicks?

Mountjoy is f#ckin awful, or at least it was long ago when I was there.
After I got processed (details taken down, fingerprinted, stripsearched, given a toothbrush and a prison uniform) I got put in a 'holding cell' coz apparently there was no room for me on any of the wings yet.
I shared this cell with a black guy who was arrested for 'causing an obstruction' while busking, he was fined in court but didn't/couldn't pay it so got a few days inside. He was sound enough. That was my first night, after that I was put in a cell with four other guys.
Ya basically got a bed and a bucket to sh!te in. I can't remember which wing it was, I think it was C wing.
You lined up outside your cell in the corridor to receive your meals, mealtime being announced by a bell. The only other time that was spent outside the cell was an hour walking around the exercise yard, a big square walled yard with a long row of toilets down one side with no doors on.
Considering I was in there for a minor offence, it was fairly scary. Just the fact that I would never have dreamed I'd get sent down, that there are people who have the power to lock you up, and the long drive in the squad car from court in wexford town to the prison were bad enough. The guys in the cell were okay apart from one who just sat and stared at us the whole time. I didn't sleep too well.
I wasn't in prison long enough to really have a properly informed opinion on the guys in it, but my impression was that maybe ten to twenty percent are headcases who should be locked up, the rest are made up of guys who made some stupid choices at unfortunate times in their lives, some who should be in psychiatric care, some who never really had a chance due to their upbringing, some who are just idiots, some never knew anything else, some you could make excuses for, some need a massive kick up the hole. Some are hopeless cases. Some shouldn't be there at all.
I don't think you can have a ready opinion of someone who has been in prison without knowing some of their background.

It is a great question OP and I suppose it really depends on the circumstances. For example if someone was jailed for killing someone who broke into their property and threatened their family or a journalist who was jailed for refusing to name a source etc. I'd be grand with both of these.

Well this link has some just up on Computer Theft or conspirisy. This seems quite nice

Johro wrote: »

Mountjoy is f#ckin awful, or at least it was long ago when I was there.
After I got processed (details taken down, fingerprinted, stripsearched, given a toothbrush and a prison uniform) I got put in a 'holding cell' coz apparently there was no room for me on any of the wings yet.
I shared this cell with a black guy who was arrested for 'causing an obstruction' while busking, he was fined in court but didn't/couldn't pay it so got a few days inside. He was sound enough. That was my first night, after that I was put in a cell with four other guys.
Ya basically got a bed and a bucket to sh!te in. I can't remember which wing it was, I think it was C wing.
You lined up outside your cell in the corridor to receive your meals, mealtime being announced by a bell. The only other time that was spent outside the cell was an hour walking around the exercise yard, a big square walled yard with a long row of toilets down one side with no doors on.
Considering I was in there for a minor offence, it was fairly scary. Just the fact that I would never have dreamed I'd get sent down, that there are people who have the power to lock you up, and the long drive in the squad car from court in wexford town to the prison were bad enough. The guys in the cell were okay apart from one who just sat and stared at us the whole time. I didn't sleep too well.
I wasn't in prison long enough to really have a properly informed opinion on the guys in it, but my impression was that maybe ten to twenty percent are headcases who should be locked up, the rest are made up of guys who made some stupid choices at unfortunate times in their lives, some who should be in psychiatric care, some who never really had a chance due to their upbringing, some who are just idiots, some never knew anything else, some you could make excuses for, some need a massive kick up the hole. Some are hopeless cases. Some shouldn't be there at all.
I don't think you can have a ready opinion of someone who has been in prison without knowing some of their background.

Was in there this year and it still is pretty much the same - still slopping out in 2011. We were let out of the cells more and had more free time on the wing and in the yard.

I have been with my gf and she was just about OK with me being in prison and stuck by me and came to visit. I know it was hard on her but we coped.