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Last Answer on February 10, 2022

What happens when someone with a disability goes to prison?

Asked by 56 about 7 years ago

There are more and more disabled people entering the prison system. Obviously if a person has a severe disability and can not care for themselves they tend to be placed in a hospital setting. That being said there are a LOT of people in wheel chairs or with major hearing or vision problems who are in the prison system. Each person has to be evaluated on an individual basis. There have been cases of people who became fully disabled while in prison and who were placed in a rehab facility under guard until the system could come up with something to do with them.

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Have you ever seen mistreatment or even abuse by staff to inmates?

Asked by Cain about 7 years ago

Inappropriate treatment, yes. Abuse, no. I wrote two people up over the years for it. I am sure it happens more than that, but people who are going to beat on prisoners tend to do it when nobody is looking.

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Thx, but no, I am not being jerked around. He says all other COs are fine, just 1 guy bullies him. He is scared to complain.

Asked by in Boston about 7 years ago

If he is scared to complain I don't see a lot of options. Either he complains, or you complain on his behalf (which, assuming he is right, will not insulate him from problems) or he puts up with it. Sometimes in the real world there are no good answers.

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Did your views of corrections change during your time employed?

Asked by K Roar almost 7 years ago

Not really.

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How effective do you feel probation/parole is?

Asked by Jade almost 7 years ago

If it is funded and administratively supported properly with properly trained agents who spend at least as much time in the field as they do in the office, it can be very effective. As it is currently operated in many jurisdicitons it is a farce.

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How do you break out of the Bob Walsh prison?

Asked by SDAFKJ almost 6 years ago

It is escape proof.

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Yo why does there have to be cell mates. I would rather spend my prison sentence in the “hole” then with some random dude who for all I know could be in for raping another man or a serial killer.

Asked by Fountain over 6 years ago

Too many prisoners, not enough cells. It costs a LOT of money to build a prison cell and the taxpayers are not overly concerned with what prisoners want and don't want. Life is hard, it's harder in prison. Stay out of prison. It is a bad place, full of bad people, and they won't let you out to go bowling on Tuesday night. That being said they usually (but not always) put a prisoner on single-cell status after he kills one cellmate, so they hardly ever kill more than one. Hardly ever.

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