Ex-Cons, What's The Worst Thing That Happened In Prison? (Reddit Stories r/AskReddit)

ex-cons afford it what's the worst thing that happened to you whilst doing your time serious my family came to visit me on Christmas Day the first year I was in I was so ashamed that I had a little breakdown the next day and punched the cinderblock wall inside my cell one of the guards invited me to come talk to him I made the mistake of thinking he was a friend and was talking about the meaning of life and why things happened he decided he thought I was suicidal which I wasn't the next day I was shipped off to a maximum-security prison in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan stripped down naked and given a kevlar smock to where they keep the temperature down of 60 degrees which means that you have to stay huddled in a corner to conserve body heat because this was observation I wasn't allowed to have anything nothing to read watch etc naked and cold for an entire week if you'd like to see what this is like turn your thermostat down then take all your clothes off and sleep on the floor of your bathroom with the light on for six days straight no showering either wasn't offered a chance to clean myself that's how I spent New Year's 2007 observation is not some kind of psychological treatment it's punishment and mental torture sleeping and singing to yourself is all you can do too cold to do anything else freakin brutal now I try to go out of the country for New Year's Eve every year my cellmates put Jam in my shoes the morning of my release oh and when I first got there they accidentally entered me into the system twice giving me - prison tour ids only one of which worked and put all my money and post on the other one didn't sort this out till I finished my sentence months later twelve months on the inside very first day in prison very first day I was in line for supper and this big guy comes up behind me squeezes my arse and whispers in my ear are your panties wet scared I turned around and the guy jumped back and said in a friendly tone oh my mistake made thought you were someone else and left the line I did three one stroke two years in Texas prisons I believe that the worst story I can recall was my first full day in a state jail facility used as a transition Center for up to two years before one is sent to a real prison in Texas a guy came up to me asking if I smoked cigarettes I didn't but thought why not so he told me to head to the gym when that time came later that afternoon we went to the gym and fired up a cigarette while we walked around the basketball court as we were walking around the court we approached the universal gym machine where a variety of people were using the various pieces to workout the guy who offered me the cigarette advised me to follow him to the other side of the basketball court and to stay away from the universal gym a few minutes later a guy sat down and leaned back to do some bench press when four guys grabbed him one on each arm and one on each leg two other guys pull out cans of chili or refried beans as both were available in socks and proceeded to hammer the guy in the face the guy at the bench press had his face completely caved in all I could think was what have I gotten myself into I also recall one other time when I was at the pre-release facility at the bay toe unit where a guy had his face cut up with a box cutter and his throat slit over $20 but the guy who died even had about $40 worth of cigarettes on him when he died I never had anything happened to me directly per se there were a few fights I got into over various things usually just respect at first I thought that didn't sound so bad then I realized that the chili was still in the cans processing into LA County Jail just after the first showers everybody is lined up to proceed to the next stage of processing we were told to leave our towels in a pile on the floor and step forward when your name is called one Hispanic fellow was called but did not speak any English he was still carrying his towel the deputy commanded him to stop and leave his towel in the pile he did not respond one deputy used his Taser on the dude while two others dropped sneeze on him the guy was rolling on the floor screaming apologies in broken English and Spanish the guy received one warning a few of us tried asking other Hispanics to inform him of the rule before he got to the deputies but no further effort was made I realized this isn't the worst tale on this post just goes to show that violence happens for totally silly reasons in jail prison the funny thing is there is no law in the entire United States mandating a citizen to know English but there is however a law that mandates any formal documents to be translated into any given language when requested I saw a guy with swastika tattoos on his body befriender flamboyantly gay black man platonically turned my whole world upside down actually for all I know it could have been a flamboyantly black gay man either way it was sweet while waiting in jail to go to the PDC there were five guys from my block that liked making people fight they made up stories and stole things then would act like your buddy and say they found your stuff in this guy's bunk I was warned about this they finally targeted me and this guy twice my size luckily he was warned - they stole my deodorant which is a prize where I was encouraged in his bunk they told me where it was and I acted mad then we all went to his cell the big guy looked at me and I said you stole from me no one steals from me I went at him and begin lightly slapping him he laughed and slapped lightly back we both were yelling everyone laughed and I got my deodorant back the five dudes saw we knew what they were up to and moved on to other new inmates even though everything worked out I was secretly pooping and wetting myself to oblivion in my mind I can answer as an ex corrections officer I was for one stroke two years in Cofield unit in Texas I think the worst thing I ever saw was a guy who was masturbating with a light bulb one of those little screw in 60 watt light bulbs anyway the guy stuck it up his ass glass end first and couldn't get it out he asked the guards to take him to medical and I was on the escort team he was in segregation we get to medical and sit for a while next thing I know the guy is screaming blood and crap run everywhere and he just passes out we ended up having to LifeFlight him out to the closest hospital he opened him up and rinsed his ass out I was in the room the whole time I'm still traumatized did three weeks in County for basically being at the wrong place at the wrong time I had just turned 18 and had never been in trouble not even in school I was interrogated in a small room by a huge undercover agent with a stash who told me that they knew I was the ringleader and that he would make it his personal mission to see that I spent the rest of my life in jail did not know any details so I said nothing when I was put in a Cell my cellmate was a six feet two bald Mexican gangster guy and every night he would loudly master but while I clinched my thin bedsheets in fear not sleeping until I knew for sure I no longer heard him I was released for lack of evidence good times smart move not talking always call a lawyer always doesn't matter if they have nothing on you lawyer up anything you say they can use against you without context some interrogation techniques are brutal I am going to give you a family story my cousin got into some C&H problems shortly after his mother died he did a robbery at knifepoint on a local shop where my brother now works anyway he goes away for ten years serves eight and was released three years ago he has a wife and two kids and is doing really well so happy ending the story that comes to mind during his fifth year he is one of the longest-serving members of the prison short-stay prison in England with only a few people serving sentences over two years anyway he gets a guy living next to his cell and starts chatting with him in the cafeteria they become friends and after about three months people think nothing of it but three months after he arrives the inmates break into the back office of the prison and find everyone's records they find out my cousin's mate has been transferred to this prison because his last prison found out he was a kiddy Fiddler's and he was moved for his safety my cousin gets told flat out while at dinner one day so and so he's been done for kiddy fiddling do something all you both get it from us fearing his safety my cousin goes over and whacks the guy straight in the jaw with a tray breaks his jaw and a couple of teeth my cousin proves he was not sympathizing with a pedo and didn't get his head Jim sent into solitary confinement for a two weeks I was arrested in a different state after skipping out of my home state while waiting for extradition back they don't freak around County maximum security I'm in with the worst of the worst all murder are kidnapping charges so my only experience with jail prior to this was watching the Shawshank Redemption Oz prism shows on TV so I'm scared shitless I'm a big guy at the time six feet six about 280 pounds pretty solid fighter batang though Ayman with hardened criminals that will kill me for a cupcake or so I thought anyway first day and I stay in my cell sleep all day think about my life halfway through the day a group of the biggest guys come in and ask for my papers to make sure I wasn't a pedo later I talked to my cellmate a bit and he seems nice says he needs a spades partner and I know how to play he says the next day we will play and he will show me around next morning we sleep in and around 11:00 go down and get again I'm like a scared rabbit looking around checking my back just waiting to get shanked we get to playing and I'm getting to know the guys everyone seems cool I'm good at spades and so is my cellie so we are kicking ass after a few games the other team is getting agitated and I'm gloating a bit so the guy to my right eventually gets upset and starts yelling calling me a cheat and this and that I brush it off but I'm on full alert just waiting for a fight so when he yells Frick this and Frick you he stands up and I pop up and blast him in the face as hard as I can he crumples to the ground and starts spitting out teeth everyone in the common area just stares at me like WTF it was later explained that people get upset at card games but never fight in view of gourds as someone who is about to do a few months for the first time this really takes some of the nerves away it'll be in minimum-security though so hopefully it will be even more chill than what you described I wouldn't mind hearing that betta death story either eight months inside and one instance always sticks out in my mind I was running out of phone minutes and spending what precious time I had left talking to my chart we didn't get to talk as much as I likes and unfortunately more important people to talk to lawyers trying to find jobs for my release etc this butthole comes up I need the phone hold on man I only got a couple minutes left he takes a phone and slammed it into the payphone holster and abruptly hung up on my daughter still breaks my heart because I cherish every minute I can have with her I spent a short amount of time in a County Jail the first morning they came and handed out those small cardboard cereal boxes that come in variety packs I remember wolfing down the serial as I hadn't eaten in a day or two and was starving they then came back around and served the milk I'm sure this really sucked at the time and I'm sorry for your suffering but God a minute that was funny I was incarcerated for nine years one month four days I've seen many things I just turned 30 I will start to AMA when I have time the worst I've seen was two guys on life sentences back in courts for retrial seeing a rival enemy and for DUI over the weekend guy didn't make it home to lifers stabbed him I'm assuming 100 times tied him up in blankets sent to trash delivery two guys were caught day later when missing body was found before trash was disposed that's the problem with lifers nothing to lose almost a huge fight between three Vietnam vets and a 25 year old em dealer because he switched from The History Channel to that week's new Breaking Bad during our precious TV time that was my first time watching the show and he made the right call em dealer stays true boredom seriously prison isin't like in the movies they're stories of our on the like that never saw it I got into a few fights got thrown in the box a couple times by nothing compares to the goddamn boredom my dad was released from prison 2013 I didn't visit him very often because I was 16 when he left and was very hurt but we've had a lot of conversations about what happened while he was in there he tells me over and over that they worst things for him while he was in there was the isolation while he was in there I was arrested and later went to rehab my brother was include eu eyes and nearly died my mother served him divorce papers almost as soon as he got in there as a hopeful future father and husband I cannot imagine a worse scenario you literally have to sit around while the people you care about the most fade from view slowly every day you wonder if they're thinking about you and if they still love you the way you love em you have to wonder what they're going to be like when you get out in years you see your family is broken hearted and you can't reach out to them not only because they won't let you but because you physically cannot leave boredom I can't go ten minutes without doing something or else I get extraordinarily bored I can't imagine going years with no form of entertainment I did ten years in federal maximum joints saw lots of crap worst thing during a riot some guy got his face beaten off for his skull with clubs inmates had broken the legs off some tables and taped three four Master Lock padlocks around the end dude had no face blood everywhere only one person died in that riot you have been visited that boy liked this video in 7.6 seconds or he won't visit a game until the 22nd of July 2008 e5 if you are new to the channel you can subscribe I publish new videos every day until then check another video or don't either way have a great day you magnificent people [Music]

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Published: Wed Jul 10 2019