a little history from my area.

[chuck123wapati]

8 hours ago, bruce johnson said:

 That feller on the other end could be wearing a number and he's got nothing but time. I can spare a little time to be polite and wish him a good day. 

great info yea I think it helps those who want to help themselves out of that drug or booze induced hell they put themselves, and many others, through. Most are decent when they get clean, some need to be there forever.  You would be surprised where I have seen ex inmates that I know, almost all get out sooner or later and never forget when you are standing in line somewhere probably three out of ten behind your have felony records.

[Frodo]

here is a true story about a state mental hospital/prison

we were breaking concrete in the break room. [for new plumbing]

I huge sob walks up to a coke machine and puts his money in it.  it ripped him off

this dude bear hugged the machine, picked it up, and dropped it.  his coke came out

he laughed and walked off.  I told my helper to go get my 24'' pipe wrench 

he asked why?  I said if that crazy sob goes off.  aint nothing else gonna stop him

he had no idea how strong he was. looked like the guy on the green mile movie

[chuck123wapati]

2 hours ago, Frodo said:

here is a true story about a state mental hospital/prison

we were breaking concrete in the break room. [for new plumbing]

I huge sob walks up to a coke machine and puts his money in it.  it ripped him off

this dude bear hugged the machine, picked it up, and dropped it.  his coke came out

he laughed and walked off.  I told my helper to go get my 24'' pipe wrench 

he asked why?  I said if that crazy sob goes off.  aint nothing else gonna stop him

he had no idea how strong he was. looked like the guy on the green mile movie

LOl we had a guy worked on our inmate crew, for fun he would pick up the front end of our farmall tractor! One tough cookie had 6 nice scars in his chest from a 357, perfect group about 4 inches around, yea it didn't kill him but it did stop him after he bled out and passed out, he knew how strong he was. Here we would send the crazies to the state hospital and they would send em back, they weren't sentenced to the state hospital so couldn't keep them! But we had just as many "window lickers" we used to call em as thorazine makes people kinda goofy, but it does keep em from killing other people, had one beat the cell window out of his door with his fore head, it is about 6"x12" and 3/4 inch thick tempered glass. You don't wanna know the gross stuff some of these poor souls do to them selves as well as others. I worked on the maintenance crew so daily I was in a cell block usually alone or with one other fellow employee with my toolbox full of tools and about 150 inmates, first thing my boss said to me when I hired on" your life wont open those block doors son sure you wanna work here?" He was an old prison guard from the old days and was on the thump and drag squad before aclu and all that stuff, when he walked into a block he was greeted with yes sir and no sir from the old timers who knew him, I was in the max yard once and an inmate asked me to tell him hi and wanted a job when he got to trustee, I asked him how he knew Ray and he smiled, no front teeth , he said Ray smashed all my teeth out on the cell door one day when I was being an ash*&le.