Prison Poll

[Alex+R 0]

Your thoughts on prison please.

[*JG* 2]

I think they should be allowed the freedom of speech. They will either hang themselves or offer some sort of lame apology.

I've never been in prison. My cousin and my husband's cousin both got out within the last year.

[Alex+R 0]

What if they use their blog to recount what they did, and they use real names? So let's say someone raped you, and now he's blogging about it, and anyone who googles you will find it?

(Devil's advocate)

[Alex+R 0]

LOL, I forgot, when making this poll, that none of the immigrants could have been in prison, and most of the USCs probably couldn't either, right? I mean, IMBRA and everything? Or do they just have to disclose... I forgot...

[Jenn! 918]

No, they shouldn't be allowed to blog. If they want, they can save up all their writing and do what they wish with it after they are released.

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

Slightly off topic - my summer job when I was in college (these were the pre-internet years) was delivering the mail - one of the ladies on my route corresponded with men in prison and used to eagerly await the mail. Now if you saw this woman, you might understand why she was trolling prisons for boyfriends (not to be cruel), but I almost couldn't bear it if I turned up at her house bearing only bills and junk mail.

Anyways - my sister went to prison for her role in a credit card scam. The father of her child did time at Jackson prison for drugs. He has since turned his life around, she has not.

Several people from my high school have done time that I know of, and I used to work with someone who had been in jail for bank robbery - ironically,one of the gentlest and most generous people I have ever known.

[HAL 9000 96]

It should be definitely allowed as part of the rehabilitation process. As long as there are no obvious sensitivity issues, of course.

[sereia 0]

No, they shouldn't be allowed to blog. If they want, they can save up all their writing and do what they wish with it after they are released.

agreed!

[Nessa 23]

wow@ 6 yes to being in prison

yes

no

yes -

I've had 2 job interviews in a corrections facility

I voted no, btw

Edited April 11, 2008 by Nessa

[Alex+R 0]

www.minutesbeforesix.com

The blog of a Texas man who hired a friend to kill his whole family, and got caught after he fled to Mexico. It's really riveting, actually. You forget for a minute that he isn't...like us.

Edited April 11, 2008 by Alex+R

[DeadPoolX 9]

When you ask "have you been to prison" are you wondering if we've been inside of a real one as part of a group tour or as a resident? Because the two aren't anything alike. I've toured the prisons in Huntsville, TX (where they execute all criminals in the state), but I am very happy to say I have never stayed as an "esteemed guest" of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

I went to prison - to visit sis!

I also interviewed the first female warden of a male prison for an article in my local suburban detroit paper - when I was a budding young journalist

[Leafgal 3]

I think prisoners should have their rights very restricted.

[almaty 19]

i worked in 3 priosn systems..and no they should not be allowed to blog....as allot of scams are still used there

[Kazan' Tiger 1]

I think prisoners should have their rights very restricted.