Do you know anyone in prison?

no

vaguely know someone who was in open prison for a while, had his chauffeur collect him for lunch and stuff

white collar crime yall

yeah I know a bunch of people in prison/who were in prison at one point - cousins, childhood friends, etc.

:(

yes

don't think so, but I got cousins I'm not really in touch with who might be...

dudes from the state prison nearby used to listen to our college radio station and would regularly call in to request things (mostly metal that I hadn't heard of and we didn't have), but that doesn't really count

Not at present. In the past, yes.

this thread made me google to find out for sure, and i know a guy who did time. he was in my year in school, i always really liked him and he once came on a holiday with me and a few friends kinda backpacking in france when i was about 17. you could tell he had some probs, was a bigtime boozer and probably alcoholic and sort of a ducker and diver. anyway a year or so after school he got in a fight with some guy after a night out in dublin and punched him and the bloke fell and hit his head and died. think he got convicted of reckless endangerment but it was quashed in the end. he was the sort of guy that you'd not be surprised to hear that story about, tho apparently wasn't guilty of a huge amount, in the eyes of the state anyway.

is ilx a prison?

a buddy of mine, his brother in law was in prison for his 10th DUI.

I know someone who's doing life for double murder and attempted rape.

Friend of mine got out back in March.

http://filipspagnoli.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/incarceration-rates-in-oecd-countries.jpg

never heard of anyone i know in ireland getting incarcerated, even ppl caught selling drugs and stuff

every1 there is 'basically chill'

Quite a few from the school i went to did time. ABH, stabbing someone, drugs and finally, being a postman that nicked birthday cards and giro's.

was gonna answer no, and then remembered that a several uncles and cousins of my girlfriend were caught growing fairly significant amounts of marijuana and I know at least one of them is in jail now.

immediate friends/family---no

if we expand that to include acquaintances/former coworkers/etc then yes, several. a decent chunk of bike messengers i used to work with had done time, and messing is one of the few jobs they could get as felons

You don't have to be bonded to be a bike messenger?

my #2 friend from around ages 3 to 10 is currently serving a sentence for a horrendously brutal murder. #1 friend from that period is in and out, not sure what the current status is.

i guess i turned out surprisingly well.

You don't have to be bonded to be a bike messenger?

― Tub Girl Time Machine (Phil D.), Monday, December 20, 2010 12:18 PM (37 minutes ago) Bookma

haha god no, you just have to not be visibly drunk when you show up for work, and even that isn't a hard and fast requirement.

My university tutor was convicted of a high profile murder, for which he'll never get out of prison. A kid I used to work with was in jail for helping his mother cover up the murder of her partner, but don't know if he still is.

The only person I can think at the moment of is my son's biological father, but I've never met him so that probably doesn't count.

A good friend of mine actually had to do 30 days in jail for misdemeanor marijuana possession after having been caught with it so many times. Dude just kept driving around and smoking and the law just kept busting him for it. It was pretty weird when they finally decided to lock him up.

nb - i'm guessing the company you work for is bonded, which is, among other things, why they take 50% of yr commission. but otherwise, yeah: i worked with guys who had been in jail for all kinds of shit. and at least one went back to jail---he came into the bar with a bike he'd clipped somewhere and was trying to sell it for $100 so he could get some heroin because the next day he was going to jail for a couple months (for possession). i think someone talked him into keeping it with a friend so that he'd at least be able to work when he get out. and that someone just died a couple weeks ago, rip dre

one of my childhood best friends just wrapped up a 5+ year sentence for dealing heroin & now I'm really hoping not to bump into him when I pass through my hometown over the holidays. Not just b/c of the prison or the heroin (if those were not reason enough), but this is a person about whom a whole maelstrom of ugly shit has come to light since I last saw him & I'd honestly just like to forget I ever knew him w/o ever having to have any fake-friendly chit chat.

Not at present. In the past, yes.

― THX THO... (Nicole), Monday, December 20, 2010 12:32 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I hate to say it, but I've taught a kid or two who's going to end up there one day. But not yet.

Not at present. In the past, yes.

― THX THO... (Nicole), Monday, December 20, 2010 12:32 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― ice cr?m, Monday, December 20, 2010 1:04 PM Bookmark

Several of the people I worked with at my job last year, yes.

A dude we knew in my HS went away for molesting a kid. That was like 1997 and he's still in jail.

no.

There's a couple here in town who I knew casually—I'd interviewed them several times and we'd say hi on the street and stuff—who it turns out were part of a sizable marijuana operation, bringing it up from Mexico. The woman got out a year or two back, I think her husband's maybe in a halfway house now.

An ex-uncle (molesting two of my nieces and nephews), the mother of one of my patients (she was involved in the incident that disabled her daughter), a Facebook friend (violation of a restraining order), and my husband (DUI).

I worked with an attorney who got 5 years probation for faking his own death

Knew a dude who went up for bank robbery. He was driving around town with his ski mask on when a cop spotted him. We had just been hanging out a couple days before and I had no idea that dude was going to commit an armed robbery.

Funny that he wouldn't have mentioned it...

my best friend from kindergarten tried to start a local chapter of the klan, which really went nowhere. he went away for awhile for some drug shit. this was long after kindergarten just fyi. i sort of knew a bunch of guys who moved from the city out to where i lived, and they were trying to recruit people into their crew. i remember they had these l.a. kings jackets with "II Down Posse" stitched on the front, which for some reason never caught the eye of school administration (too busy keeping an eye on guys in metallica shirts smoking on the sidewalk.) i think a few of them ended up in jail, but not prison.

Pretty sure a close cousin (my mother's nephew) is into meth so if he isn't in jail already it's probably not long off.

xxp: well, it just that I wouldn't have suspected any of my friends of getting into anything like that.

Funny that he wouldn't have mentioned it...

Yeah, he should have cut kkvgv in for a little bit of it, a few thousand dollars maybe, just for being cool.

I basically just thought my friends were into some soft drug use and oral sex on men and women (illegal in Florida at the time).

How about soft oral sex? Are they into that? (Wait, that kind of defeats the purpose of oral sex, doesn't it?)

well shit christine if we expand this to include patients then yeah you can up my total at least a half dozen more. i mean when i was shadowing a local (awesome) doc, his patient population was/is almost exclusively alcoholic native americans. we even went to go do a quick physical on a guy who was in the tank at the time. almost all of the them were super sweet, btw, really nice guys who'd been a bunch of fights gone wrong, you know? life is weird, yay america

my #2 friend from around ages 3 to 10 is currently serving a sentence for a horrendously brutal murder.[....]

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Monday, 20 December 2010 18:54 (22 minutes ago)

that's def got my 'true crime' fan senses up

can't imagine what u have to do get to 'horrendously brutal' in scottish terms

guess it probably involved chisels

Just remembered a guy who is still in prison. He was a temp at the radio station I worked at, and he was always talking about his photography business. His website showed hundreds of homemade pictures of girls wearing Hooters uniforms and posing "sexy" on outdoor patios.

Anyway, it was all fun and games until the Feds found freaking terrabytes of child porn in his home. He claimed that it all came from this auto-downloader of "regular" porn he had that grabbed the wrong stuff. Didn't explain why he had "544 DVDs" worth of the shit.

I wasn't the least bit surprised when they told us that Ol' Joe was into the kiddies. They say you can't judge a man by his looks alone, but I sure did (and was right):

http://www.todaysthv.com/genthumb.ashx?e=3&h=240&w=320&i=/assetpool/images/061020181454_joseph_louis_maglie.jpg

He gets released from Fort Worth in 2013.

I'm assuming it's not the same guy I know as well, his was pretty horrendous and brutal.

xpost

an acquaintance of my mom's was sentenced to death for murdering his parents, but he was cleared when it was discovered that a motorcycle gang had broken into their home and robbed and murdered them. the son had the misfortune of being drunk and passed out in another room at the time and the police thought he did it. now he's out and married to a woman who had stood up for him the entire time (along with her husband, now ex...ouch)

guess it probably involved chisels

nah, paving slab.

this was long after kindergarten just fyi.

lol

My father's bff was high school bros with this guy Jeffrey MacDonald and to this day he believes he's innocent and raises money for appeals and stuff. That dude is so guilty btw.

Was in a high school play with a kid who's still in jail for burning down a church. And then I think he got even more time for trying to hire someone to murder one of the witnesses and possibly the state's attorney.

wow jeffrey macdonald, The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm is one of my v fave bks

jjj, didn't dude from our high school who shot his friend in the head playing Russian Roulette very badly go to jail for a while?

― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, December 21, 2010 2:01 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

god this was the worst

see also the electrocution

The aforementioned friend in prison went to prison for fucking his 16-year-old cousin. He said she "seduced" him. I don't know what was up. He was gay and had only ever expressed attraction/feelings for other men, around me anyway. I guess either his mom or his cousin's mom got v upset and called the cops on him. He got arrested when trying to leave town that day – they had cop cars waiting for him at every major exit to town. There was another guy in town with his exact same name & similar in age who had been in legal trouble before & he said he thought he was being mistaken for that guy again. So, that's the other reason I quit writing him. I don't have his cousin's side of the story. Maybe it was consensual, but maybe it wasn't. I feel sad that I can't take this guy on his word but I guess I have a hard time trusting men about these things.

It's also weird writing to jail because I could never not convince myself prison people weren't censoring my letters to make them all sound like "all hail Krull and his glorious new regime! Sincerely, little girl"

His mom was a midget, too, who went as an Oompa Loompa for Halloween once, which instantly became my only mental picture of her. So I imagined this angry female Oompa Loompa calling the cops and saying, "My son has had sex with a girl."

i know a couple guys from school who r locked up but i hadnet seen them since school and i only found out after the fact

Got a call from my sister today.
Turns out I do know someone in jail.
My brother.
Merry Christmas!

yikes

So I imagined this angry female Oompa Loompa calling the cops and saying, "My son has had sex with a girl."

sometimes I think you live in a John Waters movie

shit man sorry to hear that xps

Well, after the other night I can post here! Two nights ago my next-door neighbor got in a drunken argument with a "friend" and stabbed him to death. I only really interacted with him once, but it was when he brought his adorable 4 year-old son over to trick-or-treat (he was dressed as Wolverine, to really bring this thread together). Anyway, he's always been bad news and arrested a lot, but I'm pretty certain he will finally be going to real prison for a long time.

oh god this thread

― No Wicked Heart Shall Prosper.rar (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:41 (Yesterday)

Thanks for repeating yourself, valuable input!

fuck off

it's sad news, s'all

;_;

I don't think anyone is disputing that its sad, but it is interesting to hear some of this stuff.

sure, but i wasn't being facetious -- there's really not a lot one can add to snippets of unadorned brutality/stupidity beyond noting dismay

abbbottt leavens the unseasonal grimness with some typically weird gothic humour tho!

that kid basically isn't going to have a father during their formative years, god knows what kin the deceased has too

Oh I know, its totally depressing. On the other hand, this kid and his baby sister lived in a house that is constantly the site of drunken fistfights, drug dealing, and arrests. So maybe its also a good thing for these kids to be taken to a supportive environment.

there are many interventions that could have led to that outcome that didn't involve someone being murdered

sometimes senseless and depraved things happen, and no accidental benefits will compensate

lyfe, man

yuh ;_;

gna repost this btw

http://filipspagnoli.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/incarceration-rates-in-oecd-countries.jpg

freedom amirite

sorry 2 all those who know folks in jail - and curses 2 the system letting them all down :(

there are many interventions that could have led to that outcome that didn't involve someone being murdered

sometimes senseless and depraved things happen, and no accidental benefits will compensate

So I get that your thing is playing devil's advocate or whatever, but the naysaying of whatever anyone says is pretty old. I was just looking for any sort of silver lining to this tragedy. Nowhere did I ever imply that this was a good situation.

no...

the tendency to rationalize some supposed good outcome from unlikely circumstances is a form of weak consolation in the face of implacable (and implacably) stupid disaster

cuz i imagine it seldom happens -- how many kids of convicted murderers somehow go into state care and come out alright? i hope this kid does, but i doubt his life chances have improved in the last week

sometimes u gotta just say 'lyfe, man'

Knew a guy in college who embezzled tens of thousands of dollars from a cancer charity he was working for, ended up doing time -- I think about a year. That's it, I think.

nahk, sometimes having a parent magically disappear from your life is a fucking christmas gift. my son caught the best break of his life when his biological father went to jail. my wife caught the break of her life when her abusive dad died. bad things happening to bad people can be good.

jon/via's neighbor would have continued taking collateral damage along with him whether he killed the guy or not. him killing the guy is tragic and depressing and a waste. but maybe there's an iota of a chance that his kid will go on to live a better life.

there's a chance, and hopefully it happens

my buddy is in prison for molesting his little sister.. we were supposed to be rooming together this year too. shady stuff tbh

yes

Do I!

Got a call from my sister today.
Turns out I do know someone in jail.
My brother.
Merry Christmas!

I'm sorry this is happening to your family and I hope everyone gets through it OK.

see also the electrocution

I'm not sure those guys did jail time? IIRC the deceased's family said, "they stupidly killed their friend and have to live with that for the rest of their lives; that's punishment enough".

Although presumably they were held in prison for some time before that sentencing so never mind.

okay they were sentenced to 30 days and 3 years probation

btw this was in WEEKLY WORLD NEWS

what happened?

Not the best Christmas story, but:

5 guys (4 recent high school graduates and 1 high school sophomore) went to WI to party at a remote location. One passes out; the other 4 decide to play a "prank" on him that involves tying wire around his left wrist and right ankle and wiring him up to a light switch, flicking it on and off. They leave him like that for over 30 minutes before realizing they bypassed the switch. Dude gets rushed to the hospital where he is announced DOA.

Here is a link to the story in Weekly World News.

holy fuck

brother was just talking about the younger male in this heartwarming Christmas yarn, who's just got out after serving about a third of his eight-year sentence - apparently just after the deed he came to my dad's house looking for my brother, saying "you've gotta help, I'm in a lot of trouble here" (what he expected my brother to do I have no idea)

wtf

My Dad bailed my brother out yesterday. This is his fourth time getting picked up for Drunk Driving. My Mom wanted him to just stay until his court date (the 28th). His ass needs rehab SO bad.
Anyway, over dinner, my niece asked him what he wanted for Christmas. He said "this is it."
God I hope he can get his shit together this year.

My brother is spending another xmas is prison,his second year of a five year stint. still hoping he gets a chance to call me before the day is over.

In prison obv

:(

so finally my cousin got out a week or two ago. he's spending the holidays with my family which is nice (mj related crime :/)

a guy I know from college is in federal prison too. i think those are the only two i know.

haven't known anyone in prison, but my dad's side has had quite a few people arrested for various midsdemeanors and such.

the biggest blunder was when my cousin decided to scam a computer store. details are hazy as it was a while ago, but he had a large surplus of computer equipment or something. one day he went to a computer store, bought something (idk, a printer, motherboard, I can't remember), then replaced the equipment with a similar looking (but used, and not equal) piece of equipment, and returned it. Good swindle, eh?

He then did it three more times....

....to the same computer store.

The last time, police were waiting for him.

Fortunately he has moved on from that stupid period in his life.

he did this by placing the 'imposter' equipment in the box....

i know your mom, in prison

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is ilx a prison?

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