While you were incarcerated, was there ever a moment when you had a genuine opportunity to escape?

Like a door or gate was wide open, nobody was watching, and you could’ve made a run for it?
If so, what stopped you from taking that chance? 🤣

Straight up, I miss getting half decent haircuts for a block of chocolate or a couple cans of coke.

Australian Prisons.

10 days of ICU before a phone call was made from the hospital to the POA. Does this seem insane or am I out of touch?

My boyfriend is about to go into prison, for 3 years (as long as the judge accepts the plea deal). Im moving into his house and taking over his mortgage while he's gone. (No biggie. I wanted to move anyway, im happy to do it, its a win for both of us). He once spent 10 days in county jail like, 10 yrs ago. Other than that. He's always made bail and never made it past booking. Ive sat 30 days in my longest bid in county jail and many long weekends.

Needless to say he's scared shitless, and i remember that feeling all too well. Ive been in AA recovery for 3 years now and I've seen many others come in the program with much harsher stories than I ever could imagine. I lnow theres life after prison but he obviously cant see that far ahead.

He thinks therapy is a joke, he's isolated, he's full of fear. Im walking on eggshells. He's asking me to reassure him multiple times a day I can keep his house while he's gone (im more than capable) but he doesnt really remember that its either me taking over the mortgage or its going to foreclosure if i dont take over. Im so confused over the constant questioning. Like, he was a foster kid with no other family. Im his only hope. He says he trusts me. And Ik he does.

I need some help to better serve him. I need some outside assistance, im looking for anything. Like... if there are online zoom meetings for men going into/coming out of prison, thats the only thing my creative mind can come up with.

I JUST got him applied for state insurance hoping this will fast track health services even when he's inside. He's 29 days away from his plea hearing.

Anyone with advice or suggestions? I can see he's living with the "impending doom" and there's nothing I can do to help him.

Anyone in here waiting on someone serving a long sentence?
Or know someone who did?

What is it like doing time in NYS prisons?

Détenu

So this guy (from Cocaine Quarterback) mysteriously got an entire decade removed from his sentence, is a free man, and selling some weird ass protein ice cream.

The question is, who did he snitch on to get his sentenced reduced down so much??

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/leader-violent-international-drug-trafficking-and-gambling-enterprise-sentenced-more-21

Ok so heres the deal. A friend of mine is in guadalupe county jail and has been for 4, going on 5 months. Last Saturday i finally got enough money together and was able to post his bond. After i pay 1500 bucks im then told he needs an ankle monitor before they will release him. The county provides 2 companies that are approved for the monitors. Heres the issue thou. Neither company will answer a single phone call. Me, my wife and a friend have called both numbers well over 100 times and left countless voicmails. Heres another odd thing. One of the companies has a forfeited llc or at least the texas state website says its forfeited and yet the county is still supposedly using them for ankle monitors. I've called the county multiple times asking for advice and help getting in touch with either company but am told to just keep calling. His bond was posted 5 days ago is only there because the numbers they provided as "approved anke monitors" refuse to answer a single call. Idk if theres anything illegal about this but it feels like it has to be.

Re-entry isn't just about finding a job or a place to live—it's about making sense of everything that changed along the way. After my conviction and spending time away, I realized how much of the struggle is just figuring out how to rebuild a life from scratch. I’ve started putting my journey into words—from high school and early fatherhood, to the sentence, and now life after release. How has everyone else here handled sharing their story since getting out?

I’m a graduate ministry student looking for someone with actual prison ministry or chaplaincy experience who would be willing to help with a class assignment.

I have 8 written interview questions about caring for people whose lives or choices may be very different from your own, boundaries, listening, suffering, spiritual practices, and what working with people in difficult situations has taught you about God.

I’m specifically hoping to hear from a chaplain, pastor, volunteer, or other person with substantial prison-ministry experience.

No phone call or Zoom required. If anyone fits that description and wouldn’t mind helping, please comment or DM me. Thank you!

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1. Take me through a typical day. What does your ministry look like? Who do you spend most of your time with? What do you spend most of your time doing?
2. How do you know what someone needs from you? How do you know when to offer advice, or when to just listen?
3. What spiritual practices help you stay present when someone is suffering and there really isn’t anything you can do to fix it?
4. What do you do when you’re caring for someone who sees the world differently than you do?
5. How do you serve and care about people without bringing it home with you? Should there even be a line?
6. Have you ever realized that trying to help someone was about your own need to help or feel useful? What did you do with that?
7. What has being around suffering, grief, addiction, poverty, or crisis taught you that you couldn’t have learned in a class?
8. If someone wants to spend their life serving people in hard situations, what would you tell them to do or experience before committing to pursuing a degree? 

This is just genuine curiosity. I know stealing in prison is bad, but what if you stole on the outside? Would you be less likely to trust that person?

Apologies if it's an ignorant question.

Why would mail come back "Refused" in the LA prison system? There was a return address, no scents, no pictures, just a friendly message that I miss my friend and some colorful marker decorations b/c I thought it would cheer her up. I can't find anything on the websites that have a rule I might have violated.

The envelope says "Return to Sender" and then "Refused" and there's a handwritten 380 on it. Can someone please decode this for me? I would like to be able to write her.

Beauty in the tears!!😭

I have a cousin (distant) who was sentenced to 15 years in Florida Department of Corrections a couple of months ago. He is currently 19 years old.

Florida does not have parole and you must serve 85% of your sentence before being granted any leniency based on behavior, class involvement, work…etc.

So, he will have to serve at least 12 years of that sentence before the thought of leaving early comes around. He is surprisingly at a work camp currently despite the violence of his charges.

How many years until you have trouble surviving outside a prison? Does going in younger make you more susceptible to being institutionalized?
Or is it the opposite? You realize you messed up and don’t wanna get accustomed to this lifestyle?

Link to person: https://pubapps.fdc.myflorida.com/offenderSearch/detail.aspx?Page=Detail&DCNumber=A73009&TypeSearch=AI

Link to story: https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/forest-lake-drive-arrest.amp