Life in prison !!

[Spacecadet]

It is

SpaceCadet - humour.

Are you agreeing or disagreeing? more words might help

Anyway, prison for most inmates is just tedious. Head down, do the time and get out.
There is violence, but usually just amongst certain groups and generally violence is used as a prisoner on prisoner punishment or for settling a disagreement. Things which most prisoners would avoid in the first place.

Obviously there are exceptions and the risk of violence is higher than on the streets but its nowhere as high as some people will make out and it's certainly not an ever present threat.

If you read up on some people accounts of their time inside (or actually speak to people who have done time) the one thing which is repeated over and over is the mind crushing boredom of it all

[NotAllThere]

You said

the majority of prisoners don't experience anything like that.

so the humour was - how do you know? ( Although, my understanding is that you're entirely correct )

The "it is" was responding to ASB.

[Spacecadet]

You said so the humour was - how do you know?

The "it is" was responding to ASB.

Ahh ok

More words/quotes next time

and apologies for not spotting humour - only posting whilst waiting for migration scripts to run

[NotAllThere]

The humour was hidden by me changing your name in the quote to *old lag"

[Spacecadet]

The humour was hidden by me changing your name in the quote to *old lag"

I'll give spec savers a call in the morning

[SizeZero]

shower-based enforced sodomy being meted out to you by fellow residents on a random basis

For scum like that, it should be a compulsory part of the sentence, not random.

[The Lone Gunman]

From the ability to seperate stereotypical rubbish from facts

From my experience violence is a daily threat.

New boys are beaten for being new.
There is a tradition of beating and shaving those about to be released.
The weak are prayed upon and beaten if they don't comply.
Any violent offender will be tested by those who have a rep to keep until they find out who is hardest.
Those who used weapons in there offence will be shown how hard they are without those weapons.

Once your place in the scheme of things is established then it is just boredom.
Oddly the boredom leads to more violence, threat, drug and sexual abuse.

A lot of rape is not reported in prison as there is a real danger that grassing will cause you more pain or even get you killed. It is also a difficult thing to tell people, women often do not report it, men even less so.

I spent 18 months in a category C nick and saw evidence of violence every day. One chap was given a severe beating on my behalf, much to my horror.

[Spacecadet]

I spent 18 months in a category C nick and saw evidence of violence every day. One chap was given a severe beating on my behalf, much to my horror.

But was there any actual violence directed at yourself?

Everyone I've spoken too who has been in prison (admittedly not a huge number) has seen violence or evidence of... but not actually been attacked, intimidated or initiated the violence themselves.

The violence seems to be limited to a small subset of the prison population... and those unlucky enough to be in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong psycho.

[Xenophon]

I spent 18 months in a category C nick and saw evidence of violence every day. One chap was given a severe beating on my behalf, much to my horror.

Begs the question - what did you do?

Aside from getting caught, naturally.

[DimPrawn]

Begs the question - what did you do?

Aside from getting caught, naturally.

Reminds me of a scene from a film (???)

New boy: "What you in for?"

Nasty looking cell mate: "Rape, arson, murder.... and rape".

New boy: "You said rape twice?"

Nasty looking cell mate: "I like rape".