im 41 now and have never been back but at 18 i got two and a half years in prison and it was the worst experience ive ever gone though. its a frightening place for someone who isnt a real criminal and there are better punishments you can give people, prison should be reserved only for those who are a danger to society or those who do not comply with other punishments. I met so many vulnerable people inside and they get bullied day in day out and nobody stops it, the prison system is broken and only serves to make people into worse humans
Isham2 W trust me Saudi Arabia’s is much worse if you don’t be a government yes man/puppet you get you nails pulled off and whipped, starved and they don’t even let u cut your nails or your moustache and worst off all mainly it’s the people who are oppressed in the prisons.
@@lexipalmieri7358 What if the "crime" is based on racist legislation, like: Black-codes, vagrancy laws, Jim Crow, segregation and the war on drugs, all of which contributed to the disproportionate mass-incarceration of black people? For example, would you have told Rosa Parks "can't do the time, don't do the crime" after she was arrested for sitting in the front of the bus? 🤔
Perhaps one of the worst tortures is being wrongfully incarcerated for 25+ years, to finally be released to a loving family and friends, you once had, and have all passed away.
That would be absolutely heartbreaking. You would come out into a world that you no longer recognize or fit into because of all the 25 years of changes.
gmvalentine626 In 2017, used to take care of an inmate who had been locked up since 1977. He’s never experienced cordless phones, computers, CDs, the internet, MP3s, etc. The idea of a smart phone was science fiction to him.
This is all so true, you can literally sleep all you want but it gets old really fast. Prison is one awful experience and I'll say as a former law enforcement officer that prison does NOTHING to rehab a inmate. Our prison system is so broken
Well, maybe if you police officers enforce the law so many of these bad guys wouldn't be in prison. We coddle people too much in this country. Your attitude explains why people do not like law enforcement or the judicial system.
_"He had begun to normalise his environment"_ this is exactly why I am convinced that prisons are counter-productive. They normalise violence and agression for individuals who would otherwise not have been violent or aggressive, and got locked up for a minor crime. They are now much more likely to committ a more violent crime after their release, and what is worse, is that they'll do so for a relatively minute gain or reason. This is also why I believe therapy and rehabilitation procedures conducted by trained psychologists is a much better way to deal with crime, as they do in Scandinavian countries
In Sweden breaking out of jail is not a crime. This is because of how the endeavor to gain freedom is viewed as a basic human instinct. You will not be punished for breaking out, though it can possibly be viewed as bad behavior and cat result in a full sentence. There is nothing stopping you from escaping prison either.
There are several translations of that. On e of the others is "The level of civilisation of a country can be assessed by the way it treats it's prisoners".
When I was young I did 6 month's for the first and last time in my life. I was never bullied or assaulted but the bordism, claustrophobia in a cell, drama, missing my loved ones, fear, depression, feeling of failure and worthlessness nearly drove me insane.
As a CO I can confirm this is 100% accurate. The one that stood out to me the most is more intelligent people have a hard time being entertained that's very true inmates were even a bit more intelligent will often try to talk to officers about the news or anyting of any depth at all trying to find an officer who can hold a intelligent conversation (many cant).
I have a computer, phone, and internet at my fingertips and I'm not in prison, and even I struggle with boredom... I can't imagine how boring prison would be...
Unfortunately, according to most state governments, you harming someone in self defense warrants the same punishment as if you did the harm unprovoked.
I spent my 20s on level 4 and 3 yards incarcerated in California State prisons and if I had to sum up my experience degrading is top of the list. Having to squat and cough is about as humiliating as you can imagine.
They didn’t mention this in the video, but would you say lack of privacy is one of the worst parts? That sounds as degrading as anything. You can’t use the bathroom alone, you can’t shower alone. You likely share your room with another prisoner. Might have bars on one side instead of a wall. From what I’ve gleaned, it sounds like privacy is something most prisons probably lack.
Ketan Mukherjee jail is for minor crimes and where you stay while you’re waiting for sentencing and prison is for more serious crimes and convicted criminals
gods.urethra no, it’s not about how big of a crime you did, but about waiting for trial. The jail is where you wait for trial, in the police station I think, and the prison is where you go after trial and only then the time you are serving is going to count.
Very accurate. Here in my home state of Louisiana in the USA, we have the highest incarceration rate in the nation. During Hurricane Katrina, the Orleans Parish Prison flooded when the levee on the banks of the Mississippi River broke. The inmates were abandoned and left to die in the infested waters. When they tried to escape from the waters, they were shot in the backs with rifles for trying to "flee prison". Still makes me sick to my stomach.
Separation from family, never having a moment to myself, lack of food, and thinking about what you’re missing out on were the worst for me. Actually met some really decent people in jail and prison who just like me made a bad decision.
That part!!!! Most of them just wear a hellva Halloween costume year around to make them at the park but really they are just like us and like you said and just haven’t got caught!!
That part!!!! Most of them just wear a hellva Halloween costume year around to make them at the park but really they are just like us and like you said and just haven’t got caught!!
My dad works in a prison and I remember him telling me that its like babysitting not because he treated them like children but because they didnt act like adults (some of them) and they liked my dad and I asked why that was and he simply replied treat them like a human being
Anyone would act like a child if they don’t have freedom of choice. It is free will and freedom of choice alone that makes us adults at all. It’s literally the only difference. But I think we should just send criminals (minus the rapists and the murderers) into the military, let them find discipline and purpose and brotherhood while regaining their honor!
Unless their problem is drugs than they should be detoxed first and then sent to do service. They’ll gain everything they need that a prison is supposed to offer structure, discipline, strict rules, getting screamed at, people watching over you, activity the only difference being they feel like they have a real purpose and real competitive lifestyle. You want to get tough join military or go to prison the only difference is prison is far more boring and unhelpful due to idle time. Your more likely to develop mental illness with too much idle time and no purpose. They’re very compatible actually. Ones obviously much more beneficial to rehabilitating a lost person.
You should do a video on prison systems in Europe. I've heard either the Netherlands or Belgium has a system that has worked so well they've actually closed prisons and converted them into hotels.
I’ve scrolled through this about 5 times trying to find a comment by a Norwegian about how they actually work with and reform people there & it works. The policy in the US (inhumane conditions, little to nothing spent investing in prisoners improving themselves, and no expungements unless you didn’t do it) only serves to create a class of prisoners to fill the prisons again and again, cutting them off from other opportunities. Those who want those opportunities say, “they did it to themselves,” but there are countries actually helping people who broke the law to get their lives together so they don’t feel they have to commit crimes, and it does work.
Prison changed me so much and I didn't realize this until I got out. Doing things I use to like driving a car felt like it was just so complex and scary. Finding work is hard and then you realize the only jobs that do give you a chance are low paying jobs. Even when two different companies tried to give me a promotion to be management and finally get a few benefits only to be rejected and could not move up. One of the companies actually let me go after they tried to promote me because they said that the higher ups no longer want someone like me employed selling cell phones. I could not find a place to rent an apartment either because they all do background checks. Even though I haven't been arrested again in almost 20 years. I would like to talk to a psychiatrist but I just can't afford it since Obamacare got so expensive I could no longer afford coverage. I wish that I could finally be left alone to live a normal life with my wife and hopefully find a career so we could be able to afford to have a kid of our own without having to ask for government assistance
Sorry too hear u faced all that discrimination after u served ur time for ur crime. I have known people that have served time and faced the same struggles. Most turned there life around but it was not easy. I think this needs too change because iam sure it contributes too some ending up back behind bars
So, the prison has done its job. It scared the devil out of you. Now, you can operate, be a decent human being, like the rest of us. I have no sympathy for people in prison, except for the ones who are there innocently or there for making simple mistakes. For people who make a simple or dumb mistake, there should be another facility for them. Those who are absolutely evil are getting their just recompense. No sympathy or tears being wasted here.
THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF FUGITIVES WHO HAVE BEEN ON THE RUN FOR YEARS ITS BETTER TO BE THAT WAY THAN TO BE A VICTIM OF THE SYSTEM NO MAN MADE LAWS SHOULD HAVE AUTHORITY OVER YOUR LIFE ANIMALS EAT ANIMALS IT MOTHER MATURE ANIMALS HAVE NO LAWS WE HUMANS ARE ANIMALS
@@lauraleehenry5657 Yeah, because treating people like they're less than human is totally going to scare the devil out of them. You sound rather judgmental for a decent human. I'm a staunch believer in law and order but starving prisoners and the like is just cruel.
Society pays enough to keep these prisons up and running.. what more do you want? How about you pay half your wages into helping criminals and see how you feel about that
Half your wages? That sounds like you are not really informed about that topic... And anyways I think if America would invest more in better prisons with a better way to help those people it would benefit in the long run (best examples are the prisons in some EU Countrys)
@@Wuppertaloo "not informed about that topic" are you dumb? I was making a point... That these prisons get enough funding and if they were to get more, guess who pays for it.. the prisons don't need more money, just need to stop the corruption and change their strategy when it comes to rehabilitation
How Society treats its weakest? I don't think you people get it these people are in there for a reason if you're so worried about people aren't you worried about the victim.
One of the reasons why it's so important for them to have support on the outside. Monthly commissary money, usually $50 a month makes their month. Visits are so, so important to their mental health. Visiting hours are LOUD. Bring lots of sk gles or rolls of quarters for the vending machines. Eating a greasy burger with a loved one can help ease the boredom and loneliness. Writing letters help too. Send them pictures. That reminds them of life on the outside.
The constant noise, never stopping, never getting even a little bit quieter... In the Federal Bureau of Prisons, inmates yell and scream all day and the guards slam doors all night. When they check on you at night they will wake you up to make sure you are alive... sometimes it is every 15 minutes. They do this by slamming a fist on the tray port... I had to learn to "sleep" in a half-awake state and to tune out the noise.
I spent 24 days at. Mental hospial and I just about lost my mind I was I was also constipated and had severe stomach aches Can’t imagine what prison is like
Prisons get more funding based upon the number of prisoners they have, that's why Private Prisons are focused on INCREASING recudivism rates, not decreasing it with rehabilitation.
this is what happens when you privatize the prison system. corporations incentivized to incarcerate as many people as possible for as cheaply as possible, they write contracts with cities/states to require a certain number of 'bodies' to fill their beds and they cut amenities as far as they can without killing enough people to cause an uproar.
First, I 100% agree. Our private prisons are incentivized to get and keep people in prison, and pay the minimum to keep them there. Private corporations will maximize. Of course, if we got the incentives right then I think private prisons would work. I.E., if prisons were incentivized on their recidivism rate, not how full they were. Of course, there would still need to be BETTER watchdogging than we have now to make sure they weren't cutting corners on say food.
@@Chr0nic1er The private prison corporations should be prohibited from lobbying for more laws setting prison terms, longer prison terms, and less parole or community sentences. They are the people who make the money from having more people incarcerated.
It sounds like the easiest way to improve rehabilitation would be to improve standards in the prisons themselves. Improve basic comforts, ensure all are properly feed and cared for, make absolutely certain the prison operators are reminded that their prisoners are still human and should be treated of such. Ect... Of course it’d be easier to accommodate less dangerous and minor lawbreakers, but the more chronic and dangerous ones would likely also abuse any given comforts if they saw fit to do so it’s all a balancing act.
Even though I spent a week in prison before my mind cracked, I found another side of prison. I think the most nerve wracking experience being in prison is your mind going insane. I literally started walking around my cell to pass the time. If I had a scrunched up piece of paper and was throwing it at the wall it would have been better than nothing
I'm a prison gaurd. We do our best to prevent alot of the bad that happens. There are a few bad eggs in our employee but they have been swiftly dealt with. And hate to say it. Prisoners are there for a reason, and prison shouldn't be a luxury camp. We dont want people to come back after all.
What worries me most is the fact that when a person is sent to prison, guilty or not, that person will definitely leave prison with a corrupted mind rather than a corrected mind. There is no lesson to learn from going to prison its just a punishment for a crime that a person did or didn't commit. Countries like the US rely on correctional facilities because they need that dollar dollar bill, that's why America leads the world in people incarcerated per capita. 2020 is right behind the corner but we as a society are still living in 1820.
Petko Dimitrov privatized prisons are the prime example of corruption of capitalism , yet it’s the future for most of the world especially if countries become refuge camps due to climate change.
Still living in 1820? Not even close. We don’t have nearly the extent of racism, poverty, or brutality that we had in 1820. Also, what does this have to do with money?
I went and came out with a pretty normal mind. It only effects people if they have long sentences. If you have a pretty short one of a year then you won't change at all.
I'm 30 and never been in any legal trouble ,just thinking of a jail and/or prison cell makes my claustrophobia go crazy and gives me hives. I simply would go mad.
Please continue to make videos related to this! These injustices must be spoken about or it will continue unchecked! Thank you for talking about these subjects, I think that all police officers, judges, prosecutors, anyone who has a job related to or capability to send someone to prison, should have to spend a week or so there, like that cop you mentioned in the documentary. That would give them the perspective that they need. It would be nice if you could mention some things that we, as average citizens, can do to bring about prison reform, and end the injustice being committed at regular, non-celebrity prisons. Should we call our government officers, or give to a charity for prison reform? Please let us know in your next video that has to do with prison. That would be really helpful! But thank you for shedding light on those subjects which are difficult to talk about
I think the quote at ~8:30 may actually be from me. I went undercover in CCJ for 60 days and determined that I no longer wished to pursue police work due to some of the laws I would have to enforce.
I'm not sure exactly what the state prison is like, but I did do 90 days in the county jail for a DUI in 2012. I do remember that they keep it very cold inside and it may be just the same routine everyday that would drive one crazy, like every 4 hours, they would say "count time, get on your bunks, count time". Also I do remember the constant noise because you stayed in a dorm with at least 100 other people. At least I didn't have any problems with violence. Still, I would much rather live in the place where I'm at in my profile picture which is in a ranch called Santa Maria de los baños in El Marqués near Querétaro, México. There, it seems to be even more relaxing than most places in the United States.
@@tonytormenta4653 sería cuando estuve en la cárcel pero ahora, me quedo libre. Afuera de los 48 estados aquí, en mi vida viajé primero a Anchorage, Alaska, entonces a la playa de Isla Verde, Puerto Rico, y ahora a Santiago de Querétaro, Querétaro, México.
I knew someone who went to prison and he would have chores in the kitchen. He saw some huge (50lbs) containers of food with the printed words, "for institutional consumption only." That freaked him out.
There are horrible people in prison that can never rehabilitate into society, but a lot of them just want to come back to society and live an honest life or to change themselves for the better. But it’s way too difficult for them to do so because it’s so hard to find jobs
@Ellie Fuller exactly at least in north america it is harder for the prison guards to get away with doing heinous things to the prisoners but I can't even imagine what people in other countries go through
I actually ate toliet paper and toothpaste in jail bc i was so hungry. A few of the women said that the toliet paper actually would help the hunger. I hear that eating the tooth paste in there is bad for u. Alot of inmates came in on drugs and under nourished and arent fed enough
Although I have never been to prison or jail, hurting inmates as described in the video is NOT rehabilitation. It only increases recidivism, and I could be the next victim of that newly released prisoner.
Summary The purpose of a prison is to change the behavioral problems of a person and to re-educate them so that they would be re-ntegrated into society. Its not only the prison but the justice system, funding system of the government and the government itself that affects prisons overall.... the world is changing so should prisons around the world, not only in America but everywhere else....
The purpose of the prisons is to make the inmate's experience as inhumane & degrading as possible to break their will/spirit and *increase* recidivism rates, so the Private Prisons can make more money.
Being dehumanized and told what to do The constant noises when you're trying to sleep The food The guard's attitude toward prisoners The living conditions The boredom Just everything
I have done a total of 8 years in prison and this video is so true. The worst part of prison is BOREDOM and the day to day knowledge that tomorrow, the day after, and every day after that for years will be exactly the same. That will truly drive people mad.
I haven't been in prison, but I've certainly been in school. The patronization gets to me, especially when I get punished for correcting a teacher on something that they did incorrectly.
From gang run prisons to hotel like prisons, it's really dependant on where you get jailed. Prison can be next to a hotel in some countries. In others, mafia run prisons or prisoners are treated like murderers.
