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Have you ever been to jail?

Posted by Fashionisto • 3/14/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic

....well?

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3/14/08

crkian

was within 12 hours of going, been in a police station no end of times.

I should have been a policeman, Im always helping them with their enquiries

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1. 3/14/08
  
  Anok
  
  ! I Knew it! I knew you were a trouble maker....were like brethren!
2. 3/14/08
  
  crkian
  
  It wasnt me, as I told him I was with his wife at the time.
3. 3/14/08
  
  Fashionisto
  
  but your avatar makes you look so innocent!
4. 3/14/08
  
  Anok
  
  OH! Ouch! I'll have to remember that response!
5. 3/14/08
  
  daniel23
  
  "Im always helping them with their enquiries"
  
  Grass.
3/14/08

DOUGGOFFdotCOM

Unfortunately yes I have been several times, although that was when I was 19-20 years old.

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3/14/08

Sylvia

Yes, but it was like a tour. One of those high school scare tactic things to keep people out of trouble.

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1. 3/14/08
  
  Fashionisto
  
  damn, it might be nice to be in a jail cell with you
2. 3/14/08
  
  Sylvia
  
  ....I take my whip everywhere, you may want to reconsider.
3/14/08

boazstuff

Wll, I tried to find a job there but couldn't due to physical limitation. . . If not, i would answer yes.
Anyway, my workplace is one which i've been trying to get out. It's like a cage to me. A jail.

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1. 3/14/08
  
  daniel23
  
  so you're, like, an outlaw MadameX?
  
  kewl.
2. 3/14/08
  
  daniel23
  
  replied to wrong person...
3/14/08

MadameX

Many, many, many times. I've been in jails in multiple states.

Oh.

Wait.

Did you mean as an inmate?

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1. 3/14/08
  
  Anok
  
  I'm picturing you in a prison jumpsuit right now...do you prefer orange, or stripes?
  
  You'd be like the mama hen of the prison...I can see it now...
2. 3/14/08
  
  sellytapgirl
  
  Like Chicago! Lol, I'm a musical theater dork and proud.
3. 3/14/08
  
  MadameX
  
  That's funny, Anok, because I kind of WAS the mother hen of the prison, even on a visiting basis. People used to tell me all the time that I was more social worker than lawyer.
4. 3/14/08
  
  Anok
  
  HAhahaha! Thats awesome. I'm also known as "mother hen" I take care of all the rowdy punks, which is about the same as being a prison guard without the benefit of handcuffs or bars...
  
  Someone has to!
  
  Oh, and Selly, I LOVE Chicago! Queen Latifah did a fantastic job in her role
3/14/08

footiam

From Monday to Friday

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3/14/08

nhea4U

No. I just can't imagine myself in jail.

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3/14/08

alexmcone

Never as an inmate. But yes I've spent the night in jail

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3/14/08

genopianist54

Nope, and God i hope not..

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3/14/08

whojaybe

Um... it depends... "technically" um, I'll just say no lol

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1. 3/15/08
  
  Fashionisto
  
  technically?
3/14/08

Shiley

No, but I just found out my brother was arrested this week.

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3/14/08

sellytapgirl

I have been to a jail/prison/whatever, but I have not been arrested.

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3/14/08

DrowseyMonkey

I used to work in one ... a prison actually. Wasn't a pleasant experience.

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1. 3/14/08
  
  daniel23
  
  Yeah, don't be a screw. It isn't cool.
2. 3/14/08
  
  DrowseyMonkey
  
  huh?
3. 3/14/08
  
  sellytapgirl
  
  ...ok?
4. 3/14/08
  
  daniel23
  
  working for the prison-industrial complex seems like a bad career choicefrom a kind of ethical stand=point.
5. 3/14/08
  
  crpitt
  
  Screw = Prison Guard
  
  Oh i was too slow
6. 3/14/08
  
  daniel23
  
  screw:
  
  www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/12/messages/610.html
7. 3/14/08
  
  DrowseyMonkey
  
  I wasn't a guard, I worked in an office. It didn't strike me as unethical. It was scary at times tho.
8. 3/14/08
  
  sellytapgirl
  
  Makes much more sense now
9. 3/14/08
  
  daniel23
  
  the prison system is institutionalised modern day slavery for millions of people who have done nothing wrong. some guy from my neighborhood is in for like 10 years for possessing weed. that's insane and wrong.
10. 3/14/08
  
  DrowseyMonkey
  
  Ah, well...I worked in the records section ... the prison was full of rapists and murderers ... didn't seem unethical to me to have them in there. But I get your point...that's more about the system in general tho.
11. 3/14/08
  
  daniel23
  
  rapists and murderers shouldn't be kept at public expense. they should just hang 'em high.
12. 3/15/08
  
  Fashionisto
  
  daniel23 , you make absolutely no sense in anything your saying, I'm not arguing with your opinion, because frankly, I have no idea what it is.
  
  1- You oppose someones decision as to being a prison guard, yet you say "prison system is institutionalised modern day slavery for millions of people who have done nothing wrong", if you feel that way, don't you feel more staff in prisons ( well trained) would alleviate the presssures and safety/health concerns of a prison?
  
  2- Then you go on to say "rapists and murderers shouldn't be kept at public expense. they should just hang 'em high." So you are against slavery and injustice, but for the death penalty of anyone convicted of certain crimes meanwhile disputing harsh penalties.
  
  3- you haven't even answered the question.
3/14/08

aningeniousname

I was jailed for two weeks in the late eighties for refusing to pay Thatcher's Poll tax, booooo Thatcher!!!

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1. 3/14/08
  
  daniel23
  
  Good on you. You're a hero.
  
  Thank you for standing up for the country and for what's right and just.
3/14/08

Gallego71

yes once for driving with a suspended license. spent the night after that we got that little problem fixed

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3/14/08

daniel23

My mate's brother was banged up for a few months for a very late library fine and then a year for parole violations. Justice is beautiful.

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3/14/08

just4spamming

Several times 2 hours for being asked to show my identity card to the police whereas I had left it at home. This was more than 10 years ago, nowadays then don't ask me that anymore. Once I had 5 hours prison for refusing making the coffee on my work as I was engaged there as employee not as kitchen staff member. I had merited only two hours.

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1. 3/15/08
  
  Fashionisto
  
  here, here
3/14/08

ettarose

You just don't know! Please read this ettarose-edgeofsanity.blogspot.com/2008/03/what-i-learned-from-law.html and you will see how and why I went to jail. Never even had a parking ticket.

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3/14/08

globalgirl

Alcatraz :-)

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1. 3/14/08
  
  gerryPlanetEarth
  
  What a waste of a nice island....
2. 3/14/08
  
  globalgirl
  
  Yes, but there are other beautiful spots around here :-)
3. 3/15/08
  
  Fashionisto
  
  beautiful piece of property, I just can't imagine why people would spend half a day touring that place...oh wel, to each his own.
3/14/08

pointlessbanter

I am going to um... plead the fifth

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1. 3/14/08
  
  beinki
  
  I drank the fifth, got thrown in the drunk tank overnight for a dwi.
2. 3/14/08
  
  crpitt
  
  werent you there looking for a date?
3/14/08

olgatravelingbra

I was incarcerated in the lost package bin for 3 weeks at the Tempe, Arizona branch of the US Post Office...does that count?

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3/14/08

cooper

To pick uP friends twice. Once in high school and once in NYC.

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3/14/08

gerryPlanetEarth

Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for many years...

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3/14/08

Jaya

No, I was never put in
jail, although I was once
arrested for trespassing
during a protest against
a dangerously situated
nuclear power plant, back
about 30 years ago...
there were so many of us
arrested that they let us
all go, rather than go to
the trouble of processing
and jailing us all.

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1. 3/14/08
  
  MadameX
  
  It's not the processing, Jaya, it's the food and bedding and such. A certain time rolls around and they're obligated to feed you and give you a place to sleep, and if it's a large protest and it's not a major city, they usually can't do it. If some people start posting bond, then those who don't/can't end up staying in jail, but if everyone hangs tough they usually end up having to release everyone on OR because they don't have the facilities to comply with the legal requirements for keeping everyone.
2. 3/15/08
  
  Fashionisto
  
  bless you
3/14/08

kdawg68

Yes. I got thrown in jail for fighting in college. It was a minor offense. Got released the next morning and the arresting officer actually drove me to my dorm room. Crazy but true.

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3/14/08

jackpayne

No.

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3/14/08

offendedblogger

Never.

Not because I didn't deserve to more than once, I was too smart to get caught.

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1. 4/10/08
  
  Donlewis
  
  Once. Or twice. I wasn't as smart.
3/15/08

acousticguitarist

Many times, but not as a prisoner. I used to work for the government.

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3/15/08

wehireu

I've visited jails, but I've never been a prisoner.

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4/10/08

just4spamming

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4/10/08

TheBigRuski

drunk tank one night...

It's part of my story. The part that helped lead to an awakening that changed my life forever!

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4/10/08

nardeeisms

No. But those who know me have said that I will be going in about 8 years and that I will be charged with either aggravated assault or murder. That's when my son becomes a full fledged teenager with driving privileges ;-).

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4/10/08

gosmelltheflowers

Hey Fash...

Only playing monopoly!

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4/10/08

davet

just as a kid as part of a school field trip. it left a lasting impression....

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4/10/08

LGramlich

I brought a friend to visit someone at jail once. Personally not only have I never been to jail, myself, I've never been charged with a crime.

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4/10/08

mitch972

which time? it's only city and county jail. I don't even drive close to the state or federal pen..haha

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6/03/09

just4spamming

www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4420800

I told it already about myself. Now honestly what about yourself?

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6/03/09

hatingtherain

no way

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