My Boyfriend Just Went To Jail...

Likely would make it even harder for her depending on the relationship she has with her parents to start with and hard for the parents and if there was good all the way around really hard for him to have been in place that he felt the need to steal from loved ones to take care of a habit.

Seems bad all the way around and lets hope that things can mend, help be found and this will pass.

 

A drug addiction is a drug addiction. A drug addict will write checks out of anyone's account.

All you can really do is forgive him for it.

Truly sorry to hear that, lady. I do hope that everything works out alright. This is a white collar crime more than anything, so if he does go to prison it won't be too bad... you'll get good visitation hours... and honestly... he's probably better off in jail than on the oxys... who knows what those could have lead to.

 

A crime is a crime.

 

Who cares?

He wrote some bad checks out of a drug addiction... probably out of complete desperation too. It's nice to know that at least he didn't steal from random strangers or do anything worse.

I'm a strong believer in rehabilitation, and jail seems like the best place for it. Cold turkey works wonders.

 

jail and best place to rehab don't go together

 

Why?

An addict will run away from any other rehab if he really is an addict.

Nowhere to go when you're in prison. You are forced to quit your habit... it might suck major major balls... but it's guaranteed to work.

 

it doesn't work. jail is not a place to be rehabilitated. i'm sorry. i know way too many people to know it isn't true.

 

While I know people who could only truly get off the drugs in jail.

Some of them get back on the drugs... but I've very rarely seen anyone actually quit opiates in regular ol' rehab.

 

Sorry Pavel. Jail might get you off drugs but all it really does is put a lot of really bad criminals and some moderately poor criminals into a place with a couple of really good criminals in a racially polarized environment. You "clique up" and learn from each other.

No one comes out of jail rehabilitated. They either come out better criminals or dead. Prison doesn't work.

Sorry to hear your toubles, Green. It doesn't matter what he did or whom he did it to. Follow your heart.

 

All I'm saying is that if he's going to prison anyhow... it might as well be good rehab.

 

Rehabilitation doesnt work unless the person wants to stop.

Prison is the complete opposite of rehabilitation as zoomie said. It takes non violent drug users, and mixes them in a no holds barred, anything goes type of environment with hardened thugs, murderers, rapists, and other sociopaths. It doesn't rehabilitate people, give them hope or any kind of faith in humanity or the society that surrounds them. It hardens them.

It teaches people crime, exposes them to ways of life and ideas they would never otherwise be exposed to. It's like a university for criminals.

Not to mention every drug on the street is available in prison.

Putting someone in that environment to get them off drugs is morally fucked. Most drug users get raped in prison because they lack the street knowledge or just aren't as tough as the thugs. Addiction is a health issue not criminal. Stealing money for drugs is another thing. I'm not saying thats ok in the least, but justifying prison just because it forces addicts to abstain is wrong in principle, and not in line with reality.

 

i remember when a friend of mine got hooked on mainlining cocaine 2 years ago...he pretty much locked himself away for about a month to get clean...it worked...and years ago he was a heroin addict...he still does blow from time to time but he isnt shooting it anymore and i can be thankful for the little things in life...some people can hang it up and others cant...its the nature of the beast...

 

The guy wrote some bad checks. They're gonna throw him in minimal security... no rapists or thugs there.

 

Oh yeah? Tell that to this guy.


Student Falls Victim To Jail Rape 6/10/2003

Lack of room at the county jail left a gainesville student to share a cell with an inmate serving time for sexual battery charges.

Overcrowding of Alachua County jails is a serious problem. Last Friday night a 19-year old college student was raped by fellow cell mate while serving his sentence for delivering marijuana.

Inmate Randolph Jackson held a ball point pen to the teenager's neck and then forced himself on the student. Alachua County Sherrif's Public Information Officer James Troiano says Jackson had never really caused any trouble before.

That weekend the jail had 918 inmates, two short of it's holding capacity. The two were put in the same cell because they were both charged with felonies. James Troiano says the issue of overcrowding has long been a problem but the county hasn't done anything to fix it.

Troiano says the Sheriff's office is working on preventing anything like this from happening again by making the best of the jail space they have. Agressive inmates like Jackson will be confined to one-cell housing areas.

http://www.am850.com/main.asp?News_Id=7299

 

That sucks for dude.

But that's a lone example, honestly...

I guess that it pays off to ass-rape people in jail though... got that guy a single cell.

 

Haha, yeah. A single cell and 15-20 more years.

But in all seriousness, its not a lone example. I read a report that something like 3 out of 5 inmates are sexually assaulted/abused in prison, and thats just the ones that come forward.

In the popular culture, its so widely known that its a joke. Think about office space. "hey peter man, watch out for your cornhole".

Its to the point in the US, that prison rape is almost institutionalized. The guards turn a blind eye, nobody in society says anything because as long as they don't have to go there and have it directly affect them, it doesn't matter.

In my opinion the prison system here, and the fact that hundreds of thousands of non violent peoples rights are stripped and then the prisoner is terrorized and brutalized, represents one of the most gross ongoing human rights violations in history. The fact that we have 4% of the worlds population, and 25% of the worlds prisoners, and things like prison rape are normalized to the point its just part of the prison experience, should really be alarming to everyone.

But we're a culture of consumers, fat and happy with our own concerns. The state can do whatever they want as long as people still have their SUVs and xbox's.

 

I just find these discussions over the morality of a well worn and established system so....trivial. Not that I don't agree, but is this changing anything?

I'm thinking about mince pies, turkey and cranberry sauce and getting drunk instead, something far more real right now.

 

hard core

 

Ha ha, that is so Adelaide ^^^

 

merry christmas
before jail o after jail O