going to jail.....

[corduroykate]

for a sociology field trip today /images/tongue.gif

i'm psyched...i'll update y'all when i get back...

-rock is good-

[prism]

have fun

maybe sometime I'll tell ya'll 'bout when I went to prison /images/smile.gif

[rockrighter]

What is is with you Bellingham ladies and the slammer? ;o)

See the violence inherent in the system? Help, help! I'm being repressed!

[luv2rok]

Hey,Speaking of Bellingham.
I was browsing through dvd's at best buy after work tonight and saw the
Britney Spear's dvd (Live from Las Vegas) and looked at the back of it just for shit's and giggle's and i noticed that her international fan club is based in good ol' Bellingham,Wa. /images/tongue.gif /images/blush.gif
I couldn't help but bust out laughing and i immediately thought of 13 & Priz.
Just thought i would share that useless bit of info with ya guy's.


Tenacious-D

I'd Rather Have a Bottle in Front of Me,Than a Frontal Lobotomy

[prism]

really?.....next time you see it jot down the address for me, gotta know where to place that bomb

fuck, further proof that this town is going straight to hell

[corduroykate]

man that was a trip...so much to tell but i gotta get my goddamn homework done first...

-rock is good-

[corduroykate]

p.s. priz, lets hear yer story!!! /images/laugh.gif

-rock is good-

[corduroykate]

Ok so the homework’s done and I’m ready to tell my story…first of all, I inadvertantly set off the damn metal detector by wearing an underwire bra, so this HUGE monster of a woman had to frisk me /images/blush.gif…but anyways, the field trip was amazing, really really scary, but really amazing…
Once we were all in the visiting room, the inmates all came out, and shook everybody’s hands. They kinda seemed just as nervous to have to do this as we were. We all introduced ourselves and everybody sat down and got comfortable. The first guy to speak was named Arnie. He had this beautiful head of dreads, some of which were going gray. He didn’t look at all like someone you’d think would be in prison, especially for a second degree murder life sentence. He told us that he’d gotten convicted at the age of 18, he’s pushing 50 now. He ended up shooting some guy his friend had gotten into an altercation with when trying to score drugs.
The second guy to speak was Keith. Keith said that he’d started drinking at the age of, like, 12, and that by 16 he’d used pretty much every drug known to man. He’d gotten to the point where he was shooting up with drain water and toilet water. On account of dirty needle use he has AIDS, hepatitis C, and diabetes from the meds he’s on to control these diseases. He’s been released from jail several times, but always ends up back in, on drug charges. He said that he’s come to recognize his addictions as diseases, and that he can’t fuck around with them. He also said that when you’re on drugs like he was, you sort of stop growing, and so from the age of 13 to 40 he wasn’t growing, sort of suspended in his teenage years. Now that he’s off, he thinks he’s matured some, and is better able to handle his anger.
There were about three other people that spoke too, but I think Arnie and Keith kinda summed up what I heard. I thought it was really courageous of them to share their stories with us. Jesus, its hard enough to come to grips with that shit yourself, and to be able to share it with strangers who might judge you for it, that’s a huge risk to take. All of the inmates were volunteers at the program, called Prison Voices, so they didn’t get paid for it or anything. For the guys who have life sentences, I wonder how they can continue to go on with life, because they know exactly what’s ahead of them: the same thing they’ve been living since they were incarcerated.


-rock is good-

[rockrighter]

Wow. Definitely a field trip I would've loved to get in on. There's a great programme here at one of the women's correctional facilities where abandoned and abused dogs are brought in to be rehabilitated for adoption by the inmates. The inmates can learn a lot from the dogs, and vice versa. There have been accounts of inmates with shorter sentences or who have been paroled adopting the same dogs they have rehabilitated. Given its success rate, I would hope to see trails of it in other institutions.
Thanks for sharing your day. :o)

See the violence inherent in the system? Help, help! I'm being repressed!

[corduroykate]

your welcome /images/smile.gif

-rock is good-

[13throwcenter]

that sounds awesome, rock.
sometimes all some people need is a little unconditional love and there is nothing quite like a dog to do precisely that.