How would/did you cope in jail?

Simple question actually: Ive been to jail twice, each for three to five days at most for traffic tickets. I absolutely hated sharing a tank with 8 others.

If youve been to jail, in hindsight, how would you sum up your experience?

If you've never been, how do you imagine you would manage in there?

**Extra credit for describing if bonding out wasn't an option..**

Got alot of reading done, i found it relaxing other than the fact you cant go anywere. I do well in structured enviroments.

Jail as in long term lockup, or just the local redneck pokey in a solitary concrete walled cell for 3 days as a troubled teen with a pillow like it was full of lead pellets, no mattress at all, and only be given a half-eaten grinder to eat during that entire time, filled with ingredients that make you naseous, with the only way to get the guard to even recognize you still existed was to start fiddling with the plexiglass covering the security camera?

Of course, you would need to follow this up by a ride from the head of the local probation office to court and upon being brought up to the courtroom, they forget about you and leave you chained up in the jury box while everyone goes to lunch, with nobody bothering to do anything with you for a few hours?

Maybe you can top it all off with your arrest being the final nail in the coffin of your parent's marriage, being a decade before you can step into your old bedroom again, in the meantime living in the back stockroom of an ice cream store for a couple of years with all your worldly possessions (ie. the clothes you were arrested in) in a couple of trash bags in the corner?

As long as I don't get raped and/or physically harmed, I guess I would be fine in jail. I love reading books.

Odd question for the avpd forum, was this intended for the aspd forum? I'm guessing most avoidants would be to scared to commit a crime.

I've been to prison once but it was just to interview some prisoners for research. It was a medium security prison and most people in there got along fine with each other. It didn't even seem that bad, everyone had their own cell and there wasn't any violence or problems according to the prisoners.

Jail doesn't seem that bad. A lack of internet might annoy me though.

EnterTheVoid wrote:Ive been to jail twice, each for three to five days at most for traffic tickets. I absolutely hated sharing a tank with 8 others.

What sort of country sends people to prison for speeding tickets, thats just messed up.

tlepS drawkcaB wrote:What sort of country sends people to prison for speeding tickets, thats just messed up.

Well, where live there was a change of that happening just few years ago. If you didn't have money and had any kind of unpaid tickets (certain amount) but parking tickets were not in the category but speeding, littering etc was... Actually you could even choose between payment and jail. There were some stubborn persons that had the money but went to jail for few days. Because jail time costs so much for tax payers it's not going to happen any more.

AvPD forum? But yeah. It would be horrifying experience.

tlepS drawkcaB wrote:Odd question for the avpd forum, was this intended for the aspd forum? I'm guessing most avoidants would be to scared to commit a crime.

I've been to prison once but it was just to interview some prisoners for research. It was a medium security prison and most people in there got along fine with each other. It didn't even seem that bad, everyone had their own cell and there wasn't any violence or problems according to the prisoners.

Jail doesn't seem that bad. A lack of internet might annoy me though.

EnterTheVoid wrote:Ive been to jail twice, each for three to five days at most for traffic tickets. I absolutely hated sharing a tank with 8 others.

What sort of country sends people to prison for speeding tickets, thats just messed up.

Looks like the OP is spending time in the schizoid forum. Schizoids and avpd don;t really mix that well.

Yeah - jail for trafic tickets is messed up. I have heard of it happening in my state though. You don;t pay and they will jail you eventally.

I never did time in jail. But I did on a high security psych ward with people who were getting evaluations after commiting murders and assaults. One of the guys in for murder was lonely because almost everyone was too out of it to even play cards. So he kept on asking me if I wanted to. So we played cards and shot pool a lot.

Huh - look:http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-06-19/news/32321450_1_nj-woman-14-hour-ordeal-new-jersey

I have actually thought of this before. I went on a spree of watching documentaries about it, and fantasized about it quite a bit.

I think, in the communal room things, I probably would not survive for very long. From what I understand, they are quite cruel to each other, and if I were in a fight, I would be beaten to a pulp. However, there is a chance that I could do fine by just being passive and taking the undesirable bed and leaving everyone else alone. I am pretty good at being passive and not pissing people off if I don't talk to them too much, so I might could survive.

If I had the option, though, I would say that I felt like my life was in danger, so I could go to the isolated cell. It wouldn't be too bad. I saw in one documentary, a guy was in one of those types of cells for life, and he was writing a book and learning five new words from the dictionary every day. I could do that, I think. Give me some books and paper, and I could survive without contact with anyone else. It wouldn't be fun, but I could do it, and I can think of many worse ways to live out the rest of my life. I could shut out the bad things.

I have to admit, that I have been curious about what it would be like in jail. Wonder how I would react. I can't say. You know, not too long ago, I used to have a little habit of being passive-aggressive towards authority figures. I wonder if that streak would reappear if I was in that situation. lol. Probably not, I'd go cower in the corner and cry.

This brings back memories - in high school my teachers told me I would end up in prison. And end up being some guy's wife - because I didn't fight enough.

Then in 1996 I remember hearing the story of the mass murderer Richard Speck who killed 8 student nurses in 1966. After he died someone found a video of him. Here's the description from wiki:

In May 1996, Chicago television news anchor Bill Kurtis received video tapes made at Stateville Prison in 1988 from an anonymous attorney. Showing them publicly for the first time before a shocked and deeply angry Illinois state legislature, Kurtis pointed out the explicit scenes of sex, drug use, and money being passed around by prisoners, who seemingly had no fear of being caught; in the center of it all was Speck, performing oral sex on another inmate,sharing a huge pile of cocaine with an inmate, parading in silk panties, sporting female-like breasts (allegedly grown using smuggled hormone treatments), and boasting, "If they only knew how much fun I was having, they'd turn me loose."The Illinois legislature packed the auditorium to view the two-hour video, but stopped the screening when the film showed Speck performing oral sex on another man.

So just do drugs and have gay sex and have a grand ol' time!