I know of 5 people who've been sentenced to prison time. I'm only acquainted with one of them anymore and he learned his lesson well, after a 9 month stint more than twenty years ago.
Thank you :) It wasn't so hard on me since I wasn't even born for most of them but family members talk about it and a lot of them still have the torture marks after being released :/
It was volunteer work - a class out of UC Berkeley. It was pretty great - the first year I tutored lifers to prepare them to take the GED and the second year I designed a poetry course to be integrated into mandatory 10 week anger management courses. That was a 3 times a week, 3 hour session for me - some of the best, most respectful students I've ever had.
my son county jail and some other people i know in prison. whats the big deal?? some people get in trouble. and then they learn from their mistakes and hopefully move on.
I knew a man (don't know if he is still living), that found his wife in bed with another man and killed her. He was in prison with the head of the N.E. Mafia,( Patriaca). who said he did the right thing. I disagreed, but he was a very easy going and funny guy. I felt sorry for him, but to know him you would never know he was a killer. It WAS a "crime of passion". He never was in trouble again, as far as I know. I still think jealousy is the most stupid of human frailties!
Yes and it breaks my heart. Not a bad kid but got mixed up with some that were wanting to break in places. He, for the most part, went along for the ride.
a very close friend was at the wrong place at the wrong time and was arrested and served 3 years. sad really as he's a good guy i've known for a decade or so.
i've known many people who have been to jail for like a day or a weekend over something stupid (traffic tix piling up, bar fights, etc.) but nobody has ever been a real criminal in my eyes.
there's a story behind every inmate and not that i'm saying that everyone is innocent... not all who are prosecuted are guilty.
My cousin just got out, after serving his latest year and a day, stretch for forging his doctor's signature on a prescription. The laughable part is and what makes my cousin a candidate for dumb criminal of the year, is that his doctor said he would have refilled it, if he just called and asked.
I put him there.
i've known many people who have been to jail for like a day or a weekend over something stupid (traffic tix piling up, bar fights, etc.) but nobody has ever been a real criminal in my eyes.
there's a story behind every inmate and not that i'm saying that everyone is innocent... not all who are prosecuted are guilty.
Bet People in America get the wrong idea.