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Do you know anyone whos been to prison and has been reformed?

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  • #32
    BeerSteakBirds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 494 ✭✭BeerSteakBirds


    Ray Burke ;)


  • #33
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    I spent some time in Kilmainham Jail and it chastened me.

    OK, it was only a school trip, but it turned me away from a life of crime as a 7 year-old.


  • #34
    MRnotlob606
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    mark wahlberg


  • #35
    Flippyfloppy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,746 ✭✭✭Flippyfloppy


    Yep.


  • #36
    Pawwed Rig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,502 ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    murphydublin wrote: »
    A friend of mine from school went through an extended rebellious stage and went to young offenders twice and spent a fortnight in the joy. 15 years later he is settled married 2 kids and a job. So yeah i think they can, not all but some :)

    A friend of mine did the exact same thing. You would never guess by talking to him now that he was anything more than a decent sort. Doesn't even swear much. Wonder is it the same guy. Good job, nice gf, 2 kids, house, car etc


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  • #37
    IvyTheTerrible
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    Someone in the OH's family was in jail about 13 years ago for a drunk driving offence. He really did learn his lesson, he's extremely upstanding now, settled with a family and now owns a company that employs 10 people.


  • #38
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    Sunglasses Ron wrote: »
    Six year stint at 16/ 17?

    Death or rape surely, what were the circumstances out of curiosity? It's hard to get six weeks before you're 18!

    His Family are/were pretty rough. It'd be the death end of things..fecked if any of us bring it up in polite conversation with him too often anyway, this wasn't in an Irish jail btw.


  • #39
    cloud493
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    Stephen Fry.


  • #40
    Jonny Blaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 753 ✭✭✭Jonny Blaze


    The brother of a friend of mine when I was growing up spent a year in Mountjoy for drugs and came out a pretty different person.

    Like he hadn't been a scumbag sort of guy going in, but was maybe a bit of a crazy hippy sort. When he came out he quietened down a hell of a lot and never got in any trouble again. Got a pretty decent job and did well in that for years, got married and settled down a few years ago last I heard of him.

    Was always a really lovely guy and wan't really ever in need of 'reform', but he certainly never got in trouble with the law again.


  • #41
    on the river
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,528 ✭✭✭on the river


    Guilford 4


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  • #42
    WilyCoyote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭WilyCoyote


    These three fellows ........ in by van and out in style:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge6SxKPK0s8


  • #43
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    A friend of mine did the exact same thing. You would never guess by talking to him now that he was anything more than a decent sort. Doesn't even swear much. Wonder is it the same guy. Good job, nice gf, 2 kids, house, car etc

    It seems to wake up some of them, and their record is wiped when they turn 18 if they meet certain conditions. It's the muppets who don't cop on in time and go to big boys prison who end up with a pretty bleak future and limited options.


  • #44
    Roquentin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,130 ✭✭✭Roquentin


    Tony Sirico AKA Paulie from the sopranos.


  • #45
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Roquentin wrote: »
    Tony Sirico AKA Paulie from the sopranos.

    Yeah he was an associate of the real life Colombo mafia family. He actually took up acting in prison drama classes.


  • #46
    Roquentin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,130 ✭✭✭Roquentin


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Yeah he was an associate of the real life Colombo mafia family. He actually took up acting in prison drama classes.

    God that guy was legendary. Must watch the sopranos again

    RIP James


  • #47
    SuperGrover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 991 ✭✭✭SuperGrover


    Yes, chap I know served time for manslaughter.

    Ever since being released, a good ten years ago, he has kept a job, given up his former lifestyle, drug habits, dodgy friends, and lives a low key lifestyle with a steady manual job.


  • #48
    C.K Dexter Haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,711 ✭✭✭C.K Dexter Haven


    Steve McQueen- great at baseball & motorbike ridin and stuff!


  • #49
    s8n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,760 ✭✭✭s8n


    Gail platt


  • #50
    Jonny Blaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 753 ✭✭✭Jonny Blaze


    Roquentin wrote: »
    God that guy was legendary. Must watch the sopranos again

    RIP James

    Im watching it again at the moment, in season 3 right now.

    It's pure class!


  • #51
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,035 ✭✭✭uch


    I've had several friends in prison, the dodgy ones are all dead now, but a couple have actually managed to turn themselves around, one guy in particular wasn't a very nice person, used to rob auld one's hand bags to feed a bad heroin habit and just an all round scumbag, did his third stretch and something miraculous happened him, don't know what as he doesn't talk much about it now, but he's off the gear a couple of years now, turned his back on all illegal activities, got a job, met a cracking girl, and is now totally unrecognisable from the fella I used to know. So there's always hope I reckon.

    22/25



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  • #52
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Pat Custard is still in prison.


  • #53
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Yes


  • #54
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Micky Dolenz wrote: »
    Yes

    Link?


  • #55
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »
    Link?

    I was answering a question, smart arse :p

    I served 18 months of a 5 year sentence. Completely reformed now, yes Sir.


  • #56
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Micky Dolenz wrote: »
    I was answering a question, smart arse :p

    I served 18 months of a 5 year sentence. Completely reformed now, yes Sir.

    In Boards Prison or a real one with sky tv and all the extras.


  • #57
    Shakespeare's Sister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,412 ✭✭✭Shakespeare's Sister


    Yes. They were young and stupid and became proof that many people (not everyone) deserve a second chance.


  • #58
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    John Waters... No wait still a cun.... ing linguist


  • #59
    efb
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    I was in prison got pretty out of shape, back to my old self now...


  • #60
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    I was actually acquitted of all charges, eventually. Was a big case at the time.

    I did however meet many reformed men. Some who were truly regretful of what they did and would never do it again. Moments of madness they called it. Of course I met men who would rob the eye from your head and no prison time will change that.


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  • #61
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,310 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    Savage Tyrant wrote: »
    Nelson Mandela
    Pretty sure prison didn't change his belief structure, so it didn't.


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