PPPSSSHHHH you make me sick. So one of those guys robs and assaults/kills your loved ones, then how do you feel? You're just as bad as them. You belong with them.
Ocean James I have more animosity and hatred for violent criminals than you and yet I still have compassion and sense to realize that some people are dealt a bad hand and do bad things. Some kids are born into bad families, communities and grow up hungry. Some are molested and become sociopaths as a result. You sound like you have little empathy and to me you seem just like the prisoners seem to you. As an empath I'm always amazed at the harshness of you "normals" You are unaware of the damage you do. If you never hurt anyone or did anything wrong then feel free to judge people as much as you like.
Kollin011 Sorry for my lack of empathy, really, let me apologize for not understanding what it's like to tie an 80 year old couple together and beat them to death for outdated electronics. You are a scumbag and you look like you have done your fair share of hard time.
this is how prisons should work put the people who work hard to get better with good people and theyll do better. keep them with a bunch of horrible people trying to live in violence 24/7 and they wont get any better just get dragged down and become another statistic
This makes me so happy. We're figuring out that the way we make a better world is by helping individuals and bringing them together through commonality in human love for exercise, fun, and competition.
My uncle is the “LIFER” down for 29years... HE WAS RELEASED 3 MONTHS AGO!! Doing excellent with TWO jobs ! That was so cool to see him on your vid! He has a truly amazing life story! Going to convince him to write a book! STAY TUNED!
I played tennis with him in 2015. Glad to hear he got out. Tell him Rick the white guy that was Black’s doubles partner when the collages came in says hello.
As a former C/O myself, I fully support this idea. Is all about keeping them out of your hair. I think they should also let them have cats and dogs, to some degree also. Anything you can do to lower the tension on the yard.
That yard looks more like an outdoor sports complex than a prison. Not a bad way to serve a sentence with a game of tennis everyday. You almost feel like you're at a high school or college track. All for the better. This is like Special Olympics, only this time for inmates. It's nice to see all these convicts get rehabilitated through sports. It gives them an opportunity to still discover talents and what they can do after where they initially made a brush with the law.
Im a daily player like you and started in High School. Tennis a very fun and competitive sport and don't know where my life would be without it. Good job Corrections how sport and tennis can rehab and create comradery. Keep hitting brothers.
There's a prison in Toronto that I don't think is in use any more, but they used to make an ice rink in the yard and have a guards vs prisoners hockey game every winter.
+alexbballboy the whole point is you wouldn't expect tennis to be popular in prison, but its bringing people who would normally not want anything to do with each other together. If the stereotypes of prison basketball are true it does the exact opposite
Well I don't know about basketball in prison, so I don't know the stereotypes. Witch is why it would be cool to learn more about how it works, and the players, etc.. It obviously wouldn't be like this tennis doc.
I can't get over how great this is. No shit someone who is in prison with nothing to do will go crazy and likely end up back in prison. We need more shit like this.
BlackSwoldier o he has a water bottle in one hand and a tennis ratchet in the other. Respect, why are they due respect, hes giving them his time and a privilege to learn about the game. they seem to be getting along, but your to judgmental to notice that.
whiteflange It seems like it may have been some kind of a joke or something. They both kind of laugh it off. It didn't look like there were any bad feelings there.
whiteflange He did not reject the handshake. The inmate raised his hand, then the player tried to switch his bottle to the left hand to make room for the shake, but the inmate changed his gestures. It was too late to for the white guy to return the love.
As a foreigner, i have to say this prison is placed in a very picturesque location. Someone will pay a good price for this spot. Can't believe they just up and decide lets build a prison by the ocean where no tenants got to see. Why?
Having a tennis team in prison as a tennis team coach in prison will have the number one team we will play all the other prisons and conference championships
+Kendall Hughes man youre dumb, like why did you have to say "that black guy" you coulve described him by what he said. and also there were like a ton of people so which one do you mean?
+Slade54 Ubermen I never said it was an insult.dont twist my words. all I did was recommend a better way of describing somebody instead of by their race when there is a lot of people of every race in the episode.
I'm not being racist by simply stating a obvious fact, I am black and I wouldn't call someone dumb for realizing my skin complexion. Tristan Thornton guess 99% of people in America are dumb, for saying we have a Black President.
American prisons should be for profit, but instead of being paid per imprisoned prisoner, they should be paid per rehabilitation. Show that your establishment does what it is supposed to do and you get paid, just like any other job in the world.
you guys saying "thats not punishment they have to pay for their crimes" have it completely all wrong. First off, tennis does not offset the fact that their in a dangerous maximum security prison for years, their paying for their crimes. The point of these sports programs is to help keep them occupied which help keeps them from going crazy, which help keeps them from assaulted inmates and most importantly STAFF. Thats why the guards are all for these sports programs, it helps keep them ALIVE. Want to go back to the days of prison riots in the 70s and 80s where prisoners killed guards and took hostages because of that "put em on an assembly line and punish them" mentality? The guards that work there certainly don't.
+arrestmeimwhite The whole point of putting someone in a max security prison is to deprive them of access to all the good things they'd have in the free world, both as a form of punishment and as a form of shielding society from them. Tennis _does_ offset the fact that they are in prison. Bringing into prison the freedoms that you took from them when you jailed them makes their serving time completely pointless. Might as well just leave them out, since they are no longer experiencing the negative aspects of imprisonment. Not to mention the dangers of this apparent rationale of appeasement. They are violent criminals and must be treated as such. If giving them tennis is a way to keep them from breaking things, then I regret to say that the state is bowing down to racketeers. As for the guards fearing for their lives, I thought this was a "max security" prison, meaning prisoners don't have much leeway with regards to anything, including activities that could endanger guards...
Max Renauldo A little bit of both.. but think about it you said ""I miss my family" so does that guy you killed " the guy he killed is dead and its the other way around his family misses him.
I'm kinda interested in hearing about how guys like the one who got his GED and all that do once they get out. i remember reading that most prisoners that have served so much time that they know nothing else besides the prison life so revert back. I just feel like I would give that guy a shot
A lot we can do to make the criminal justice system a transformative system of reform and rehabilitation, each individual has tremendous power in changing themselves
I respect that they're trying to rehabilitate and help these inmates, but wouldn't their time be better spent with at-risk youth? Preventative rehabilitation would provide a much higher return on investment than rehabilitation with inmates whose crimes have already run their course.
By showing the desire to make a change just showing improvement and making the team and then to go on and win the championships will get you an opportunity for to be released from prison through the president United States through setting up a special program we can set up an initiative programs for early release people who are show that they have the desire to change as a person
