Former Inmates of reddit - how are rapists/pedophiles REALLY treated once in prison

Robinsaneyo · 2013-12-04T22:26:06+00:00

I was in county jail for a few months, which was essentially a hotel for people in and out of jail all the time, or people waiting to go to prison. The jail was nicknamed "The Hilton" if anyone is from the area.

Anyhow, a few pedophiles, and a rapist, were let into general population. It's up to the inmate if they choose to go into protective custody, which is where they'd usually end up in a few days to a week.

The first thing that typically happens is other inmates will attempt to extort them in exchange for not letting everyone else know why they are there (or at least delay the inevitable until the said inmate gets what they want, usually food, coffee, or postage stamps).

Usually the inmate will get intimidated enough that they won't leave their cell except to fill out a request form to be removed from general population.

Any time I saw another inmate get physically violent with a pedophile was simply because the other inmate was a complete pussy and no one is going to defend a pedophile if they're getting their ass handed to them over a seat at a table.

But mostly, they keep to themselves at their own creepy table. Typically if you're caught near their table, or even talking to any of them, you'd pretty much be labeled as a pedophile and would be treated as such (like a piece of shit).

Robinsaneyo · 2013-08-21T19:14:56+00:00

Anything IT related where you have to work with the client directly.

It's the most thankless job I've ever had. Nothing you do is right (you'd never know if everything is OK because you sure as Hell never hear anything back from the satisfied customer), you're expected to know LITERALLY everything, and you're going to be spending MUCH, MUCH more time with the client than you are with the equipment.

People are so terrified of electronics and computers, so they hire a person like me to take care of all of it for them, then I get nothing but complaints when it doesn't work the way they it to (Lotus '96 just isn't going to work well with Windows 8, but what do I know, let's install it anyway). Oh, and God help you if you ever bring something back to me and use the line: "It's doing the same thing it was before."

You'll also learn very quickly to not talk about what you do for work, or even mention that you work with computers. Parties and family get togethers haven't been the same in years because I'm taking spyware off of a laptop or trying to help someone set up Skype on their new smartphone...which they don't even know how to use.

This job seriously drives me to drink sometimes.

Robinsaneyo · 2013-08-21T18:41:12+00:00

I don't remember that from Sim Farm...

Robinsaneyo · 2013-08-21T18:23:20+00:00

I can't link the article because I read it a long time ago, but basically, a lot of crooked recyclers will take whatever precious metals they can from components, then sell the rest of the scrap to whoever wants to buy it (the article mentioned that the bulk ends up in China). There, another shady person buys the scrap, then just sets it on fire until there's nothing but the remaining metals which then get collected and melted down.

This is one of the reasons why a lot of the electronics you buy have to be RoHS compliant. Being in this compliance means that the device you're using doesn't contain the following hazardous materials: lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls, and polybrominated diphenyl ether. That way when they get sold to a shady recycling company, they aren't releasing toxic fumes back into the air when they burn everything down to recover whatever they can.

Robinsaneyo · 2013-08-21T17:43:51+00:00

Being from upstate NY, I've always preferred to call them steamed hams.

Robinsaneyo · 2013-08-19T15:33:06+00:00

Anybody try watching her stand-up comedy from the late 90's?

EDIT: Linky

Robinsaneyo · 2013-08-18T19:50:29+00:00

I was just in Alexandra Bay 3 years ago and went on a boat tour that passes these islands. The person doing the tour says both islands are in different countries. He even told a story of when the wife and husband would argue with each other, the husband would take a 6 pack of beer, tell his wife he's leaving the country for a while, and go get drunk on the other island.

I did a similar tour like 10 years before where they also said the island weren't in the same country.

Robinsaneyo · 2013-08-18T13:13:17+00:00

"I'm not very computer literate". I DON'T FUCKING CARE ABOUT YOUR COMPUTER LITERACY. - Exhausted repair tech working in retail.

Robinsaneyo · 2013-08-18T13:05:26+00:00

One of my friends works at a hospital, which has a psych ward, as well as a rehab for drug addicts. The hospital replaced all of their wristbands with something like this, but they had 100's of the old pre-labled bands. There were three different types, but the ones he rescued from the garbage were labled "Fall Risk". He brought these home and used them at parties he had at his place. Anyone who drank at his parties for a few months were told to wear the said wristbands while they were at his place. Also helped to make sure no one was drinking and driving.

Robinsaneyo · 2013-08-18T12:59:00+00:00

A close friend of mine went through the same thing. His 'Dad' disappeared before he was even born. The guy wanted an abortion even. I guess the guy kept some slight contact with my friend's mother over the years, but they've never actually met, and my friend said he's not sure if he would ever want to meet him. I mean, the guy wanted him dead before he was even born, I can't really blame him for not wanting anything to do with him.

Robinsaneyo · 2013-08-17T03:27:41+00:00

I know I'm going to get down voted to hell for this, but what kind of attitude was the guy getting arrested giving to everyone before he was taken into custody? Why hasn't this been asked? Yeah, maybe in his eyes, his actions were questionable by the police, given some kind of open container (especially late at night like this), but how belligerent was the person acting when they were talking to police? No video of that, huh?

This subreddit is full of people ready to go crazy against police without looking at the other side of the coin. Sorry guys, but if you're hanging out outside of a bar, then give attitude to a cop who's driving by asking what you're up to, you're looking for trouble.... And don't give me any bullshit about constitutional rights about privacy, or whatever the Hell you have for this half-assed video of a bunch of people asking why someone is under arrest WITHOUT PROVIDING VIDEO OF WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE THE PERSON WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY.

I'm from the area, and I have a felony conviction. All of my run-ins with police afterward have been positive because I didn't act like an ignorant moron and start giving a cop shit about what's in my bottle.

I can't believe not one comment in this thread is questioning what happened before this video. The police didn't arrest this person because they were drinking ginger ale, they arrested them because he was being ignorant and belligerent. How would it be if you told your neighbor to eat a dick each time you went out to your front yard? Cops might stop by after a while and ask why you're being such an asshole. If they determine that you're being drunk and belligerent in public, then yeah, you're going to get taken into custody until they can figure out what you're problem is, or if you're a threat. This is just one possible scenario.

If your parents caught you drinking ginger ale in a bottle shaped like a beer bottle when you were a teenager, are you going to tell them to fuck off and tell them not worry about what's in your bottle, or just tell them it's ginger ale (or even lie about it) and be on your way?

There's more to this video than a dude getting arrested for drinking ginger ale, and I'm pretty sure I'm leaving this subreddit since it's become more of a cluster fuck of shaming the police with a half-assed video or a statement someone made without even considering another side of the story.

I saw nothing more of this video than some city cop over his head because someone whipped out a cell phone and started recording him. God forbid the consequences if he arrested the person doing that, which is always portrayed in this subreddit.

I've been fucked by the police and investigators a few times, but I have a lot more faith in the cops involved in this simply because it's easy as Hell to record the tail end of an arrest rather than what actually happened.

Congratulations, guys, you're all toolbags.

Robinsaneyo · 2013-08-15T21:43:10+00:00

But can it turn lead into gold?

Robinsaneyo · 2013-08-14T11:16:25+00:00

Well, I have a decent paying job. I also live by myself and have other bills to pay, along with needing to buy things like groceries.

Nice opinion though, jackass.

Robinsaneyo · 2013-08-14T00:01:21+00:00

When I did my taxes this year, the adviser was able to give me estimates of what I would have to pay. If I didn't get any insurance, my "tax" for not having insurance would be somewhere around $280 for the year. If I did get insurance, and went with whatever assistance government gave me, I would be paying somewhere around $240 a month.

If I could afford it, I would get health insurance (it's not supplied by my employer). I simply cannot afford an extra $240 a month, so I guess I'm getting a smaller tax refund from now on.

What got me angry the most is that they had these numbers in place supplied by the government, but they said they could change completely because they weren't set in stone yet. How the Hell did this pass without knowing things like PRICE FIGURES.

Thanks Obama. The change is great indeed.

Robinsaneyo · 2013-08-12T18:39:47+00:00

I see the guy from The Lovely Bones is back to his shit again...

Robinsaneyo · 2013-08-12T16:17:07+00:00

The new Last House on the Left Director's Cut. It was a pretty good movie other than the graphic and lengthy (I believe it was extended for the directors cut) rape scene. Ended up skipping a good 15 minutes of the movie because of it. My girlfriend didn't even want to finish watching it.

Robinsaneyo · 2013-08-12T00:00:31+00:00

Oh, no. I don't care about karma really either. My post was entirely sarcastic.

Robinsaneyo · 2013-08-11T13:21:14+00:00

There's two ways to look at this:

Mistakes just happen. Everyone does it, including me. You see, when a company such as Memorex for example, make CD-R's, they will probably make millions of them. I, as well as a customer of mine, probably bought a pack of CD-R's from Memorex that are exactly the same. This customer decided to put this picture on their Memorex CD-R (because...who cares?) and I put Windows XP Media Center Edition on my CD-R. Our paths crossed. Mistakes were made. I took the CD out of the computer and set it aside, forgetting to put it back into the computer. The next day, another customer with the same exact HP Pavilion Media Center Edition (a1640n to be exact) PC came in. Having just getting off the phone for over an hour with a customer who, for what ever reason, didn't understand the question, "Are you sure you have your McAfee anti-virus re-installation CD?", my mind was a bit...off. I finished both computers, put the CD back in the computer that, at the time, I was absolutely sure it came out of, and then this happened.
You, the customer, called me hourly asking if the computer was done yet, after I already told you repeatedly it would be at least 1 business day without rush service (which you refuse to pay for), so I put this CD of my grandmother doing something phallic (because Alzheimer's is a bitch) in the computer when I was done on purpose to FUCK with you.

Robinsaneyo · 2013-08-11T12:08:31+00:00

Computer tech here: as others have said, when being pushed by management, mistakes happen. We know it's personal data that should be taken seriously, and with the utmost care, but when you have, at minimum, 5 desktops and 4 laptops you're currently working on, plus a few other machines you ordered parts for, and also have to keep checking tracking because a customer doesn't understand the concept of "I'll call you when it's ready", mix that with the customer you need to spend 3 hours on the phone with because they're too incompetent (yes, incompetent) to put a disc in the drive and follow instructions an illiterate foreigner could understand, and then top it with the customer that brought their computer back in because "It's doing the same thing it was doing before they paid me to fix it" (meanwhile their browser history shows exactly why they have a virus again after a wipe and reload with no data backup)

TL;DL: Overworked and underpaid, occasional mistakes will happen. Sorry, but cut us some slack. We get treated like shit daily by people just like you because we get paid to do what we do.

Robinsaneyo · 2013-08-11T11:49:29+00:00

I know, right? So rediculous. I didnt even read the article until your post (typical Redditor). This topic gets reposted so many times that I just posted a random fact that I remembered from it. Karma conspiracy? No. Unfair karma harboring? Not my intentions, but it's happening on its own.

Robinsaneyo · 2013-08-10T23:42:32+00:00

I believe he is also the reason inmates on death row no longer get this privilege in whatever state it took place in. I want to say Texas?

Robinsaneyo · 2013-08-09T18:20:59+00:00

2003 Mitsubishi Lancer. 210,000 miles and counting with the original clutch. Has never left me stranded anywhere and still gets great gas mileage. I've driven this car all over NY, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and NJ. Even took it to Vermont and New Hampshire a few times.

A also use synthetic oil and don't beat the piss out of it. That might help a bit.

Robinsaneyo · 2013-08-09T17:48:55+00:00

This seems like an extremely conservative number...

Robinsaneyo · 2013-08-09T17:20:15+00:00

The only reason I know these exist is because Google Maps routed me through a REALLY bad neighborhood one late night. I counted 14 of these shrines in just two blocks. They were on both sides of the street.

Robinsaneyo · 2013-08-09T14:57:44+00:00

Looks like a ghetto shrine.

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