What are some productive ways to keep people out of prison?
107444
Execute them instead?
214295
http://prisontalk.com/forums/index.php\nThere is a whole forum full of advice about jail mail.\nHang in there Darlin'.
573418
Having worked in a half-way house for ex-offenders, I learned that long sentences don't always discourage illegal behavior.  Especially in drug dealing.  Many of them consider it just a "cost of doing business."  Also, the "King Pins" quiet often use young children to do the dirty work while I DON'T justify dealers, just the opposite, many times the authorities will make a plea agreement with the lower echelons to get further up the ladder.  The real solution is EDUCATING the public so as to eliminate the demand for the drugs in the first place.  How many questions come through here seeking ways to obtain, use or get out from under charges of drug use?  As long as people are unwilling to face life, as is, then there will be dealers and "King Pins."  There are always predators seeking to take advantage of the weak.
899124
A very high percentage of the people in prison today, were once the little boys you are talking about.  (I worked at a state Corrections - head office - dealt with the Division Directors).\n\nYou might want to go to: http://www.csom.org/  This is the federal government's Center for Sex Offender Management.\n\n While inmates overall have a recycle rate of about 30%, sex offenders repeat at about 60%.  A few years ago, CSOM did a study of sex offenders which concluded that on average, a unsupervised sex offender sexually abused somebody every 8 days.  Sadly, they have learned to get a sexual release by abusing somebody.\n\nVery few people who go this route are able to stop.  What can - or should - be done with them?  Release them back into a unsuspecting society?  Lock them up for life - and then send low paid prison guards in to break up their fights - and by killing a guard the inmate becomes a prison hero?  Or do we execute these people, and take the money that would have been spent putting them in prison and use it to provide mental health services to young kids who have been abused - so they avoid becoming the next generation of abusers?\n\nIts not a easy question - and there are no easy answers.  But to me, the best answer that is available today, is to have people on-line who pose as young kids and if somebody goes after them - then the authorities should step in and prosecute the predator.\n\nSome states will have the offender serve prison time and when their sentence is up - have them declared mentally insane so they can be held longer.   I can see the reason for this, but it really gives me a peek at Orwell's 1984 life.
1079367
Call the police and turn yourself in, you're going to get caught, there's no way you can win! Your parent's will cry and wish you good-bye as you zoom through the gate of the prison, All you can do is hope that the lou is deep enough to drown yourself in! If that doesn't work, you'll surely find work, there is plenty of murder for hire. And if nothing works out, don't scream nor shout, just remember you burn in Hell's fire. Have a nice day.
1070506
I strongly encourage you to contact your nearest Prison Fellowship Ministries office. \n\nThey are set up to help inmates just released, just like you. \n\nGod bless, \n\n<><
1152340
set yourself up so that for the period your in prizon your making more money than when you were free with clever use of investments. recreate the kind of conditions at home that your likely to experience in prison, so the shock factor of going in is minimised, and get commitments from as many people as you can that they will visit you while your in, and get lots of phone numbers memorised so you can call them from the yard, and start using a vibrator so your able to sleep on your first night inside after some fun with your celly. The idea of all this is to prepare for the painful experience of being there, the whole purpose of which is to crack you mentally and instill a deep fear of going back in once you get out. This advice is not gonna make it any easier, but atleast you'll get used to the life inside at record speed.
639960
In a nutshell:\n\nPros: Helps to eliminate murderers/rapists/pedophiles. Reduces population of multiple time losers in prisons rather than rewarding them with a lifetime of free food and shelter paid for by the taxpayers. Reduces need for taxpayer-funded "rehabilitation programs" where the offender is "rehabilitated", then released to kill/rape again. Improves the gene pool. Serves as a deterrent to future criminals (and yes, it does work in other countries despite what a previous poster said, and there are statistics to back it up).\n\nCons: None except the huge supply of scum who deserve it. Occasionally an "innocent" person is put to death; but historically in the US the number of cases like that is very small, less than 1/10 of 1 percent...and with improved DNA technology this number is fast approaching zero. I put the word "innocent" in quotes because as a rule, if you are in the system, you aren't totally innocent... even if you aren't necessarily guilty of murder. Let's say the guy didn't KILL the kid, he just participated in the torture and rape part. If he's 'mistakenly' put to death don't you think he got what he deserved anyway? \n\nEven though there will always be some idiot out there willing to see if he can "get away with it", capital punishment is the single most effective crime deterrent available, despite what bleeding-heart liberals might think.\nIt is a proven fact that for every rehabilitation success story, which the liberal media glorifies at every turn, there are 1000 failures where the offender repeats the crime. Offering someone life in prison in today's justice system means offering them a life of free food, shelter, medical care, education, and the ever-present chance to escape and do it again. The death penalty insures without a doubt that they'll never do it again. Enough said.
87580
gang, kill people, go to prison ect....wear only blue...\ntry and talk your friend out of it or lose yuor friend
25236
There is a wonderful support and information group at http://prisontalk.com\nSomeone there will have your answer.\nI've got a "someone special" locked up, too, and this group has helped me a great deal.
1133619
I've never been there as a prisoner, but I have volunteered as an ex-offender advocate. Sometimes, that has involved going to the site of their incarceration before release. That is a great idea. Also, children of incarcerated people are a very often overlooked "need" group. Good luck to you.
776337
they use common items issued to them by the prison.\n\nremove the blades from a disposable razor. remove the lead from a pencils. hold the blades against the end of a toothbrush while sticking the lead in an electrical outlet. the lead will heat up and melt the plastic of the toothbrush enough to attach the toothbrush to the razor blade. you can then wrap rubberbands or strips of fabric or pieces of tape around the razorblade end to secure it a bit more or you can wrap things around the handle end to give you a better grip.........instant shank\n\ntake a piece of metal and rub it against the cement floor for a very very long time until you have a knife point..........instant shank\n\ntake a toothbrush and rub it agains the cement floor until it is sharp.....bit quicker and low tech shank\n\ncan of jack mack (canned salmon that is sold in commissary and is VERY heavy) in a sock.\n\nif you or an inmate you know is in the craft shop, you can order all kinds of items that can be used to make weapons through catalogs.\n\nyou can also use the pencil lead in an electrical socket to light a cigarette. (tobacco is illegal in texas prisons)\n\ntake apart an alarm clock, use an ink pen, make a tattoo gun.\n\n\n\nwhat would you make when you have nothing but time on your hands?
26231
There is a wonderful group at http://prisontalk.com\nYou'll find a great deal of information and support, including special poems and writings from mothers to their children...there's even a forum dedicated to the parents of inmates\nI've got a "someone special" locked up, too, and this group has helped me a great deal.\nGood luck.
21346
You can find some great input on this issue at\nWWW.prisontalk.com. It is a support and information group for the friends and families of inmates and those who are facing trial/sentencing.\nGo check it out!
670455
I agree, prison is not always the answer, for some it just makes them worse!
1035721
I'D LOVE TO HELP!!!!  Thing is, to be smart & safe, let the authorities know about the person.  Contact the authorities, let them do their job & let them put the person behind bars.  Good luck!
992054
It's called Safe Place...your probation officer or any state official could tell you more. It's only for a certain type of offenses and to my knowledge it's a program to scare them and let them see what's going to happen in prison if they don't change their ways.