Prison Isn’t One Big Rape Fest, Says One Ex-Con

You 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]