Prison Isn’t One Big Rape Fest, Says One Ex-Con
Published by Joel August 16th, 2007 in Survival. Share ThisYou know that when the gavel falls and they send you up the river, you’ll be a “new fish” dumped into a pool of bloodthirsty piranhas. The first time you walk down the tier to your cell, praying for God to give your trembling knees the energy to keep pushing forward, you’ll hear the hoots and whistles and see the grimy hands reaching out to grab your ass, leering toothless mastodons making kissy-face at you, the nauseatingly horrifying amorous advances of drooling tattooed sociopaths ready to split your rectum open like they’re deboning a chicken. Your anus will pucker in terrified self-defense.
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During the entire incarceration process, from arrest to detainment to prosecution to conviction to prison to parole, you realize that the ONLY people who are nice to you are other inmates. You’ll meet a lot of cold-blooded prosecutors and sadistic guards, a lot of do-gooders on the “right” side of the law who are paid to harm you and who laugh at the very idea that you’re human. But unless you go out of your way to be an asshole to other inmates, they’ll help you a lot more than they’ll hurt you.
Rape obviously does occur in prison, which is a tragedy, and why I don’t make prison rape jokes unless I’m really drunk or really horny. Locking people up away from society is punishment enough. But I was encouraged by this man’s tale of his two years in prison, where he explains that most prisoners just want to serve their time as peacefully and simply as possible.
Any of you guys ever been to prison? What was was your experience?
YOU MEET THE NICEST PEOPLE IN PRISON [JimGoad.net via Reddit]
“…you’ll hear the hoots and whistles and see the grimy hands reaching out to grab your ass, leering toothless mastodons making kissy-face at you, the nauseatingly horrifying amorous advances of drooling tattooed sociopaths ready to split your rectum open like they’re deboning a chicken. Your anus will pucker in terrified self-defense.”
This is like everyday in Brooklyn.
Look, sometimes when a man wakes up he needs to undergo certain behaviors to indicate he needs coffee. But I’ll try to stop.
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I don’t know… I think I have to call bullshit. At least partially. Crips playing cards with Nazis? Really? And more unbelievable than that - being locked up fucks you up more than being raped? How would he know, since he was never raped?
Prison isn’t a rape fest, but piss off the wrong people, and you can get jumped in the shower.
Not everyone gets along, there are still societal segregations, but everyone hates the guards.
Actually, I was curious enough to ask the opinion of a friend of mine who is a parole officer. She said she agreed with everything in the piece 150%. She also said, regarding guards:
“The prison guards develop a close repor with the prisoners. Partly because most of the prison guards were/are on the same social/economical level as the prisoners themselves (CO’s only make about ten bucks an hour and you only need a GED to become one) the other reason they get a long with them so well is because..in the event of trouble, those prisoners will have that *cool* guards back in a second.
There are asshole guards (the *goon squad* they call em)who are on an intimidation power trip and they get no respect by their coworkers or by the prisoners. if you want to be respected..you have to respect everyone including the prisoners. For the most part (and I always tell parolees this..except sex offenders of course) the only difference between me and them is that they got caught.”