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Post by BlindedxxFalcon on Jul 8, 2007 17:18:12 GMT -5
Haha...yeah! Lol.
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Post by hahukumkonn on Aug 29, 2007 2:18:21 GMT -5
One thing to note is that while the law-and-order folks like to fantasize that things were tougher in the sixties, in some respects sentencing for some offences could actually be shorter back then. For example drunk driving offences often didn't run up into the 50-year range like a recent case did in Washington state.
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Post by hahukumkonn on Aug 29, 2007 17:16:34 GMT -5
In some ways I'd say there's been a retrogression; read Sol Wachtler's book to get an interesting view of how prison life was for someone experiencing 'hard time'. Or, for Canadian flavor (flavour  ) read the book about Donald Marshall's prison experiences in the late 1980s. |
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Post by fairlane on Aug 29, 2007 18:39:19 GMT -5
I find it really interesting watching prison doco's, especially set in the states. I watched one a while ago on "supermax" prison Marion which was unreal. The conditions are incredibly harsh, it is on permanent lockdown so the inmates are always in solitary confinenment.
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Post by Tensleep on Sept 2, 2007 14:54:57 GMT -5
Our school was originally built to be a prison, but the old highway was right along there and I figure that was not the brightest idea. So they moved it on down somewhere else I don't care about.
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) read the book about Donald Marshall's prison experiences in the late 1980s.
