tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post115360384282530635..comments2024-03-18T03:28:36.581-04:00Comments on Shrink Rap: Sock Puppets In SolitaryUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-1154065607882296012006-07-28T01:46:00.000-04:002006-07-28T01:46:00.000-04:00DIY instructions for a tattoo gun like prisoners m...<A HREF="http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/07/diy_tattoo_gun.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890" REL="nofollow">DIY instructions for a tattoo gun like prisoners make</A><BR/><BR/>OWCH. <BR/><BR/>Speaking of inmate art.<BR/><BR/>OWCH.Sarebearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09208596053319110470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-1153797735208820392006-07-24T23:22:00.000-04:002006-07-24T23:22:00.000-04:00Dinah, you need a couple days at the beach. It's a...Dinah, you need a couple days at the beach. It's a verb: drink drank drunk, blig, blog, blugged.<BR/><BR/>My favorite inmate rec activity I ever saw was in the Federal prison system, the hugest wood-working shop I've ever seen. Two full walls of sharp metal tools all hanging in neat racks. I figure that was where the CO's got assigned if they accumulated too many demerits.ClinkShrinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13316134491751195651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-1153795040707379932006-07-24T22:37:00.000-04:002006-07-24T22:37:00.000-04:00You blogged about it anyway. Is blogged (or more ...You blogged about it anyway. Is blogged (or more properly: to blog) a verb anyway, does one blog or does one write in a blog? Oy blog.Dinahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09227988351623862689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-1153791925190202262006-07-24T21:45:00.000-04:002006-07-24T21:45:00.000-04:00I didn't mean any disrespect to CO's! Just sticki...I didn't mean any disrespect to CO's! Just sticking up for my dh. Also, seeing all the training and physical fitness stuff requiref for the CO position, gave us newfound respect for them, too, when my dh got all this info when applying. He was set to go through the physical tests, he had an appointment, but then this other thing came up<BR/><BR/>So we saw what is required for that, but I'm relieved my husband isn't one because I'd worry constantly.<BR/><BR/>They need to up the programs to help prisoners, but with all the other programs needing funding, prisoner needs are probably a hard sell in the legislature . . . which is sad, because they are people.<BR/><BR/>I must admit, I see them as more than just a stereotypical criminal now (although many dangerous, not idealizing them or anything) since finding and reading this blog. And remembering my brother too, whom I tend to forget that whole mess due to my anger at him sending embezzled checks to my address and involving ME in his crime and stuff that way, ugh. Whoops, guess I better process that. (Sorry for rambling, but . . . restraining that is a huge problem for me.)<BR/><BR/>The most powerful and influential statistic I've read around here is where one of you quoted a study that said there's about what, 70-80% who do much better after release if they've had mental health care in prison or something? I may be horribly off on that, but when I read that, I was like, HEY, there's something that might affect people's thinking and maybe legislators, with such a positive result as that to report.<BR/><BR/>Sorry for the long post again!!!!<BR/><BR/>Part of me wonders, back to art therapy and such, if getting in touch with their "creative" side might open up easier access to feelings and working on internal issues, if provided with more traditional forms of therapy in conjunction . . . . sounds like access to the latter is freakishly difficult.Sarebearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09208596053319110470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-1153786330236518122006-07-24T20:12:00.000-04:002006-07-24T20:12:00.000-04:00Eek.Oh, hey, I'm probably oversensitive. Ok, I AM...Eek.<BR/><BR/>Oh, hey, I'm probably oversensitive. Ok, I AM. Ok, to not label myself, I often tend to react in oversensitive ways. There, that's better.<BR/><BR/>Anyhoo, about 5 years ago, when the job market was VERY thin, and the local Gateway computers plant closed after only three years, thus letting loose a ton of computer people on the job market, the only job my husband could find for a barely livable pay was security guard. So that's what he did, until early February of this year, when he landed a better job in a more tech field.<BR/><BR/>I don't think you were slamming guards, though, just pointing out the huge differences between them and CO's. My husband actually put in an application to be a CO at the Bluffdale prison, here. Made me rather worried for him, beyond the worries I had for him as a security guard.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, that's my POV. Sooooo . . . . seems like once the perpetrator is in jail, the victims get forgotten, especially as regards inmates making extra money like that last example you list. ARGH.<BR/><BR/>Maybe I should ask my brother about his prison experience from a few years ago (and psychiatric there, too . . . I think this event is what finally led to him getting help, it's sad it couldn't happen before prison, though.) In his case, a portion of money he made working in prison DID go to the place he embezzled from. And then some to child support.<BR/><BR/>Oh hey, on a mostly unrelated note (as if this comment hasn't been unrelated enough!! (well, my brother is related . . to me!)) didja ever see the Mythbusters episode where they test the story of inmates creating paper crossbows and shooting CO's or whomever with them? The ingenuity of creating from little was very surprising. And the efficacy of it, too.Sarebearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09208596053319110470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-1153785753976520672006-07-24T20:02:00.000-04:002006-07-24T20:02:00.000-04:00It's a tradition in art appreciation to ignore wha...It's a tradition in art appreciation to ignore what an asshole and sociopath the artist is. "Nobody ever called Pablo Picasso an asshole" and that was a grave oversight if the biopic I saw is any indication.MThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02341704109256270557noreply@blogger.com