What Is Federal Prison Like?
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it is according to if you are in a camp or on the inside behind a fence==also what federal prison you are in--wardens of prisons vary--wardens are kings and what they say goes--Also depends on the guards--some are human being and others are just ignorant people that allows the power to go to their heads and will treat you with no respect at all==will taunt you every chance they get== There are some things that are really bad in prison and I do not know why no one does anything about them--one example would be that they issue you underware ( 4 pair) then when you need new ones they issue you used ones==this is only one of the bad things--i cvan give you bad and god things \n\ngood luck to you
59847
fedral prison at Eglin Airforce Base in fla\nthey dont have the polo ponies like at lompoc Ca.\nbut very nice place to do time.
151207
Odd question.... and more importantly, they let you have internet in prison?\nEnjoy it.
859182
I believe it is a quasi-public institution.\n\nIt is governed by a Board of Governors.  Each Governor heads one of the regional district banks of the Federal Reserve.\n\nI would think it would be a great place to work, if you can pass the background check.
166869
Depends on what you need to know, but try here http://www.sfsheriff.com/\nAnd here\nhttp://prisontalk.com/forums/index.php
422484
Same thing happened to me. My friend did a year in Federal prison for nothing. Get ready to learn how our justice system really works and remember it the next time someone tells you how we have the greatest government in the world.
217071
Lots of people have been to prison.  Why?  Is there something in particular that you would like to know?
85737
What state is that in? Please add details and I'll find it for you...meanwhile, visit the appropriate state forum at http://www.prisontalk.com and I bet someone there can answer your questions without your needing a list
403973
not enough information.\n\nState? which one?\n\nFederal? \n\nhere is the Federal BOP inmate locator
954189
This site http://prisontalk.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&daysprune=-1&f=161\nhas tons and tons of accurate info about all aspects of the Ohio "correctional" system
393159
FPC's (Federal Prison Camps) are considered MINIMUM security institutions (think Martha Stewart).  In an FPC you are able to work in the outside community as well as do outside community service work, and also obtain furloughs to leave the institution (weekend to go home).  These institutions are for non-violent, short sentenced offenders primarily.  THEY ARE STILL PRISONS and the inmates are still under federal jurisdiction.  For example, if an inmate fails to return from furlough, or is disruptive in the community they can be removed from the camp and placed in a higher security level institution.\nThe other types of federal prisons are based on security level.  There is LOW, MEDIUM, PENITENTIARY's, DETENTION CENTERS, MEDICAL CENTERS, and a SUPER-MAX (where you will find the Uni-bomber).  Inmates are placed in a institution based on crime, violence, psychological profile, and a number of other criteria.\nALL federal prisons fall under the Department of Justice's Federal Bureau of Prisons.
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Anyone who doesn't like our government is free to leave.  That's right, we are still free, go to another country if you think it is so much better.  Our Criminal Justice System is probably about the best in the world. Is it perfect? No. But would you rather be in Saddam's prison, seeing what he did to people.  If I had to go to prison, I would rather it be in the U.S.  Have you been to a Federal Prison?  And NO they are not Club Feds.  If you haven't been there, you would not know that.  However, criminals are treated decently, which is better than most of the world can say.  And yes they are criminals, you have no idea what most of those people in prison have done, and continue to do if given the chance.
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I'll tell you as best as I can:\nUpon entrance to jail (called booking, if it hasn't already been done, you will be fingerprinted, photographed and processed into the system.  They may do it immediately, or you might have to wait in a large room with seats or benches and sometimes a TV to watch.\nYou will then be asked about your medical/psychological history, usually prefunctory, basic stuff to assess that you are not suicidal, pregnant, addicted to drugs etc.  Also if you have a condition, you need to tell them so that you can get your meds.  If you have money, you can put it into your inmate account so you can get things at the commissary. They usually put a plastic bracelet on you as well.\nYou will then be escorted to a tiled room with a shower and asked to disrobe.  You will also have to take off all your jwewlery, includng earrings or body peircings.  You will be told to take your contacts out, if you wear them (be sure to bring your glasses, contacts are not allowed in jail) You will be searched.  Sometimes, they will just take a glance at you, make sure you are not hiding a gun, or drugs.  Sometimes it is a little more invasive: they might look into your nose, peel back your eyelids, or do a finger wave of where the sun never shines.  They might ask you to squat and cough.  You will then be made to shower, usually with delousing shampoo.  They will usually spray you down after.\nYou will dry off, then change into the jail attire.  It is usualy a blue or onange one-piece jumpsuit, sometimes it is two pieces (top and bottom).  Some jails actually use striped suits, and some use hospital type gowns.  Most likely, though a one piece jumpsuit.  You'll usually get flip flops or non laced sneakers.  Usually sentences inmates wear a different color from unsentenced.\nYou will then be given bedding (usually a pillow and case, thin mattress two blankets and two sheets), toilet paper and soap and led to the houising area.  This can be a dorm, or a single cell.  It will most likely be a cell you share with one or two inmates.\nTypically, it has a bunk bed,some shelves to store your stuff, a steel sink and toilet, usually in one unit.  Your cell might have a barred front with windows outside the cell, or a solid door with a small window and then the cell has its own window.  Natural light is not a requirement, though, so you migt have a cell/cellblock with no windows at all.\nThe cellblock (sometimes called a pod)has anywhere from 8-30 cells and usually has tables and chairs to eat at or play games etc, maybe some excercise equipment, and a TV.  There are usually a couple of showers you can use every couple of days.\nYour time in jail will be boring at best, miserable at worst.  You will grow tired of watching TV.  There will be little variety in your diet.  You will usually consume about 2300 calories per day (no seconds).  A lot of white bread, processed meat (think 70s style TV dinner).  You will get Kool Aid, but no juice (they don't want inmates making wine out of it)\nThe best advice is to not take sides, keep to yourself, but be amiable.  In other words, no harm in playing a game of cards with someone, but think twice before giving out personal info.  Avoid the race card.  Be respect ful of the guards, but not chummy. Don't do anything to appear aggressive, or anything to look like easy pray.\nYour day will involve a lot of boring TV (usually no cable), card/checkers games.  If you read, you will go through a lot of books (there is usually a limit to how many books you can have in your cell)\nGenerally speaking, your visits will be done through a window (like at the movies)where you will speak through a phone (sometimes monitored).  By appointment you can have a contact visit, however you cannot touch except for an initial embrace, and the table has a 2 foot plexiglass screen bisecting it, so it is kind of pointless.  Also, contact visits involve a strip search.\nIf you are nonviolent, you are not likely
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Honey, my husband had been in federal prison for 26 years and passed over for parole until he now has no more chances.\n\nHis last parole hearing was held in a storage closet in the med unit.   Professional, huh.\n\nThey do what they want to, when they want to, and there's not a whole lot you can do about it.   It's a bureaucratic system, most outside citizens hate inmates, and therefore you are probably the only person who cares if he gets out or not, or when he gets out.\n\nSo don't burn yourself out worrying about it.   I've been on "standby" now for years.   Can't plan anything, can't take vacations, missed on job opportunities, because you never know when those jackasses might finally do something like they're supposed to and let him go home....and he's 700 miles from home right now.\n\nGood luck to you.
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The show is total crap, per real inmates and real cops.   But like Miami Vice in my era, it was entertainment.\n\nMy husband has been in federal prison for 26 years, so I know what real prison is like.   My problem with the show is that it glamourizes prison to young people, making prison trendy, whereas prison is really hell on earth. \n\nThe show gets a lot of press, and I'm dismayed to see youthful commentary like "Oh wow, Brittany, he is like so cool, ya know?"  "Ohmigod, Tiff, he is hot.   Should I get a tatto like that, I mean, really, it would be so cool to have barb wire around my arm!"  During a recent shopping expedition, I saw that Old Navy now carries a line of women's shirts that have prisoner's numbers on them.   By all means, let's wear numbers and pretend we are prisoners, because prison is so cool...\n\nI saw a young man on a 4-year drug charge die after being gang-raped at a prison that had one doctor for 2000 inmates.    I knew an elderly diabetic man who died in his wheelchair outside the medical unit waiting for assistance.   If you have a heart attack in a federal prison, you are dead.   You get up when they tell you, you eat when they tell you, you go outside if they let you, you go to bed when they tell you, you travel between units only when or if they let you.\n\nThey might hold your mail for two weeks before releasing it, making you miss an important court deadline.  They held a man's parole hearing in a storage room in their medical unit.  During visitation, sometimes your wife has to drag your screaming daughter or son out of your arms when it's time to say goodbye.   In my husband's case, I was not able to go tell him in person that our oldest son had died.   I had to tell him via a phone call.   Despite raising the money for a federal marshall's escort, he was still not allowed to attend the funeral.\n\nTHAT is reality in prison.   And along with millions of families of prisoners who live like this, THAT is why I can't stand the show.
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so what prison are you in? and how did you get in this prison?
505593
This should get you the info if they are AT a federal prison.\nhttp://www.bop.gov/inmate_locator/index.jsp