#incarcerated

What the fuck happened?

@sionis-is-the-mask

"ROMAN! Ah, I'm so glad to hear your voice! Er, well... your words? Your written words... I digress!

Yes... Jeremiah committed me to Arkham after I-I told him to stop kissing me. Obviously, there was more to his dislike of me from times before then... but it was that moment when he decided to take my weapons from me and lock me up... Thankfully Dr. Crane had the freedom from recovering from Scarebeast to save me and waltz me out like I owned the joint. But... How are you doing, Roman?"

Men's vs women's prisons are incredibly different.

Within these categories, custody levels (i.e. minimum vs maximum) is very different. Contrary to popular belief, custody levels are based upon the time someone has left on their sentence (plus good behavior) and is not necessarily based on the severity of one's crime. When I worked in a minimum security prison (not as custody staff or as a mental health professional—always feel the need to add that qualifier), I worked with people who committed child rape, people who struggled with drug addiction, people charged with murder, and people who committed fraud in addition to those with crimes I don't know about. Furthermore, a facility can have mixed custody (i.e. be a minimum and medium security prison).

Additionally, private vs. state prisons are very different. While federal/state prison conditions are bad, private prisons are way exploitative and worse on operating from a perspective of punishment.

Finally, you also have things like work release where you're technically still within the prison system but are able to find and work a job.

Jails are also different and I hear have even worse conditions than prisons.

And lastly, every facility is different and every custody officer is different. Some are incredibly strict on really benign shit, while others don't care. I once watched a custody officer confront/ask an incarcerated woman what she was hiding behind her back (a cucumber for her lunch that she stole from the prisons veggie garden) and the incarcerated woman made a silly show out of dramatically hiding it behind her back and refused to show the officer, who eventually shook her head and just smiled and walked away. But with other officers that woman could have recieved an infraction.

'The world needs to recognize that punishment alone is not enough to rehabilitate an individual' — Formerly incarcerated activist JJ Velazquez spent 23 years in prison for a crime he says he did not commit. Here's how he has spent his time both inside & outside of prison fighting for an equitable criminal legal system.

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