I would like to add:
- Become a robot, lose your will, keep your "self" inside your head.This way when rules change, patterns change, cells change - you just do it without it affecting your "self". Otherwise you get pissed over little things or fight the system or whatever and well, the system wins. The alternative is just embrace it. As was said earlier you only serve your first and last days - the rest is nothing. just make it home, figure out the systems, and survive. The big bad evil crap increases with each level of security, the USP being the last place he wants to be.
- As mentioned earlier. No talk of the outside. No money. No support. Put money on his books, do it regularly in small quantities, he does not need $1000 at any given time.
- Get a radio and batteries first thing. Non digital the batteries last longer. He can live in his head with music, news, talk radio, etc
- If he snores real bad, like apnea bad, get the operation before going in - at a minimum beg the judge to keep him out of places that will beat him for all the noise. Get Doctor's letter.
To be honest - your buddy sounds like a thin, fit, tattooed, kinda nutty guy with all the combat, tactics etc bullcrap that already shows he's a little off - I mean, no offense, but at least in the Low - who do you think is already in there? I think he will be fine.
This is a good list, I appreciate it. He is a little nutty, but in a good way (at least I think). I can't stand people that are too normal.
Good god. No smell. No smoke. You would make a fucking KILLING. You could even rent it out!
Either your friend's been super unlucky or he's been into something serious...
Wish him the best of luck in prison anyway.
A little bit of both it seems. Thanks for the words
Tell him to learn to meditate, and spend an hour practicing every day in his cell. Someone I know did 5 years' hard labour in a Japanese prison followed by a couple years over in the UK (idiot was drug trafficking. Lucky he didn't get caught on the other side of the border, otherwise he's have got the death penalty). His brother (who has a lot more sense than he does) sent a Zen master to visit him in jail in Japan, and it really saved his ass by giving him a lot more control over himself.
I'm not sure how he'll take to this, especially with everything else I'm trying to cram down his throat (Dun-Dun-PSH!) at the moment, but I will bring it up. If anything, I'll recommend that once he gets his placement and determines his level of comfort and/or safety (I wouldn't put it past someone to want to beat someone up for being a 'Yoga Fag!', and that's strictly speaking about NON incarcerated americans), he can let me know if he wants to check it out and I'll grab him some books from Amazon and have them sent on over.
i have mixed feelings on this...for sure it sounds like he was looking for underage kids online...so at that point i say fuck him.
However, when we were younger about 24 we were hanging out with some girls around 18-19 etc.
Anyway our one friend took one girl home and banged her, she wasnt allowed to be out all night but she slept at his house anyway.
The next day she told her dad that the guy raped her, as her dad was freaking out about where she had been all night.
So he is charged with rape, and her dad went on a campaign and plastered posters at the guys work annd all over town with his face on it that said Rapist.
We stood by him for a bit, but then one day he lost his temper at a party, and started yelling at some girl. After that we all said fuck him and cut him out.
two years go by, the dad has made his life a living hell...luckily his work kept him on at least....the girl was lying they find out in the trial.
now he has sued the shit out of the father
he was a good guy, wish we hadnt cut him out.
eh...my point?? i lost it somewhere...but it sounds to be like your friend is a bit more guilty
Yeah, in the very beginning, after all the dust settled and shit, even I was a bit wary. I sat him down and made him tell me EVERYTHING he had done and what they were going to find and everything (although for the first few months we thought it was about JB type shit, and thus wouldn't be such a big deal, but then they found those other few files).
He did fuck up, because he WAS looking for something illegal. There is no arguing that. He was just unlucky/dumb enough to come across something else while in his search. When you're doing something illegal (but not so amazingly reprehensible morally), and then do something even MORE illegal, even by mistake, it's a null effort to attempt to explain your innocence. lol
As for your friends situation, that shit sucks. When I was a kid I got into a bit of trouble (usual teen bullshit) and had to go to court. My attorney was awesome. Anyways, a few years later, I read an article about him and a case he was defending where a 19 year old guy in San Diego met a 17 year old girl at one of the local '18-21 year old' clubs. She said she was 18, and even had a fake ID. He somehow got busted for fucking her, and it was a mess.
I never did find out what the outcome was.
given those you associate with perhaps you should drop the $3 and RENT the movie, you know, so that you don't accidentally get illegal content via the p2p client you used to save the cost of an iTunes rental.
Touche my friend. haha
I did some time in a state prison. if hes in a minimum security fed prioson he has nothing to worry about, medium or high security prison and he better suck some dick to stay alive. child molestors (Which is what the inmates will hear) dont usually make it in prison.
As far as I can tell from reading the placement procedures and whatnot, it seems like he is LIKELY to go to a 'Low' security facility, which is still above 'Minimum', but it could be worse. Any other facility would be a nightmare. And yeah, in his mind he is just like many of his friends (not afraid to admit a 17 year old is hot), but I've been trying to get it in his head that to the rest of the world, he is essentially a child molester, and he needs to prepare for that.
Haven't read all the responses but this is fucking bulllshit.
No matter what porn you searched for in Limewire it would ALWAYS have fucked up tags. A NORMAL porno would have a ton of sick looking tags.
I feel so sorry for your friend dude. Unless he was actually searching 'preteen' or whatever then he can get fucked but if he was searching 'teens' and got hit with some sick stuff then that is such a shame.
This. This about sums it up. I know many of us had to have had this experience at one time or another using Limewire and Bearshare and shit. NOTHING is ever labeled correctly, and most of it is mis-labeled purposely.
