Prison

[Hades]

There's also a weird mindset about people in prison or people who have come out of prison. Generally that they are more savvy, smug, streetwise and tougher than your average person.

 

I used to play footy with an absolute bellend who caused death by dangerous driving and was in prison for 9 years. He only spent 4 and a half inside but he strutted round like he was some hard knock when all he had done was get shit faced and knocked a pensioner over. But people were actually genuinely afraid of him because he'd been in prison.

 

The only thing that would do my head in about prison would be trying to avoid cunts I never want to speak or associate with and the general boredom of it. I would shit myself though if I was in a Category A prison though.

Repped for top quality misanthropy. "Not even if you were the last person on Earth"

[Rico1304]

I’ve said before I went into Strangeways in the late 80’s. That was about as far from a holiday camp as you can imagine. Fucking terrifying.

 

I can remember thinking ‘I don’t blame them’ when the riots started.

[Geoff Woade]

Prison generally does sound ok apart from the other people in there. Probably like being in a 2 star all inclusive in Greece that’s overrun with Russians.

[Anny Road]

It’s bad enough don’t a night in a police nick. Fuck going to prison

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

They'll never take me alive.

[Harry Squatter]

My brother in law is training to be a prison officer at the moment. Said that they have been given lots of training about how prisoners try to headwork you and burn your mind out even over the most basic things like giving them a ciggy.

[Mook]

One of the most facepalm things I’ve possibly ever seen was a young lad repeatedly bleating to the copper who’d just arrested him at a festival “I wasn’t going to sell them, they’re just for me and my mates” (which seemed genuinely the case, from how green and terrified he was) to the point the copper said “I’ll pretend I didn’t hear that but strongly advise you to stop saying it sir, or I’ll have no choice but to record it as evidence.”

 

I even said to the lad “He’s trying to help you out here, the higher charge is just intending to supply them to ANYONE else”, but he kept on repeating it for ages, the copper ran out of free passes to give him and he was subsequently locked up for just over a year.

 

I was virtually eating my whole hand by the finish. Like watching a car crash in freeze frame, as the jump up from personal to intent in terms of making your future difficult can obviously be severe.

 

Just been Googling my cousin & he was dafter than that, nabbed (along with his 13 pals) smuggling tens of thousands of pounds worth of charlie, MDMA & pills into Creamfields Festival by sniffer dogs at the gates.

 

It was in The Echo in February as well.

 

Idiot.

[Rico1304]

Just been Googling my cousin & he was dafter than that, nabbed (along with his 13 pals) smuggling tens of thousands of pounds worth of charlie, MDMA & pills into Creamfields Festival by sniffer dogs at the gates.

 

It was in The Echo in February as well.

 

Idiot.

I’d imagine paying back the dealer for the confiscated drugs will be more worrying than prison.

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

Who would strap 10k of coke out?

[Rico1304]

Who would strap 10k of coke out?

£10k street value, a lot less to a dealer. Given out to a bunch of kids on the promise of making a killing. I know about 5 people who’d bite your hand off.

[Dr Nowt]

Just been Googling my cousin & he was dafter than that, nabbed (along with his 13 pals) smuggling tens of thousands of pounds worth of charlie, MDMA & pills into Creamfields Festival by sniffer dogs at the gates.

 

It was in The Echo in February as well.

 

Idiot.

Fuck-a-duck.

 

Going to be hard to airbrush that one as youthful exuberance.

[Anubis]

Sounds a bit harsh that mate, unless he was dealing Escobar quantities of the stuff. Was it a first offence?

He was dealing Class A drugs for commercial gain at a music festival. He was always going down for a stretch.

[Carvalho Diablo]

Went to see my mate who got done for stabbing someone 18 time (anyone remember the maddest thing your bird has ever done thread?).

Pretty much the same theme as Geoff's post. Astounded at how laid back the place was and also the amount of prisoners in their mid to late seventies. My mate was completely oblivious as to why he couldn't get a job in the kitchen with loads of sharp knives about. They basically get free time and the opportunity to go the gym as well as go on certain courses which make NVQ level one in IT seem like a PHD.

Me and my other mate were waiting to go in and were sitting next to this legal clerk visiting. She was gorgeous, tanned, dark hair and big tits. As soon as we walked into the visiting hall everyone started drooling at her. We sat down waiting for my mate and she sat down opposite this fella in his late 40s. She started talking to him asking him his name etc but he never said anything and she asked him whether he wanted to say anything about his appeal against his sentence.

He then said "my name isn't Mr Jackson. Think you've gone to the wrong seat but never mind, you've just given me wank bank material for the next six months love"

The Night Of owes you royalties mate.

[Rico1304]

He was dealing Class A drugs for commercial gain at a music festival. He was always going down for a stretch.

A lad near me got 4 years for 5 pills just after Leah Betts.

[TheHowieLama]

\I know about 5 people who’d bite your hand off.

yea but besides you...

[Rico1304]

yea but besides you...

Ha, me, Moof, Hades and NT. or just me.

[rb14]

I’d imagine paying back the dealer for the confiscated drugs will be more worrying than prison.

Possibly. But wait until you see his POCA face. Ouch.

[Scott_M]

This was a friend of a friend yesterday.....

 

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-44466995

[lifetime fan]

A mate works very high up in a private prison for sex offenders.

 

Told me it’s crazy the amount of child porn that gets snuck in and this is in a prison with virtually no physical aggression between inmates or directed at staff.

 

Said if they can’t clamp it out then no wonder other prisons with massively reduced staffing have problems with drugs, homemade alcohol and all sorts of other shit going on.

[Rico1304]

This was a friend of a friend yesterday.....

 

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-44466995

I was convinced they’d let him off.

[lifetime fan]

I was convinced they’d let him off.

 

Someone let Rico know Stringers has hacked his account.

[Paulie Dangerously]

My brother in law is training to be a prison officer at the moment. Said that they have been given lots of training about how prisoners try to headwork you and burn your mind out even over the most basic things like giving them a ciggy.

 

Know a lad who did the training and quit after a month. Said it was a nightmare, all the cons asking his name, which pubs he goes to etc trying to build up a profile of who he was. 

 

He's now a Premier League linesman funnily enough.

 

On the drugs thing I know two fellas who decided they could be coke dealers, cutting it themselves etc, and ended up owing out 5 grand and paying more just to "get out" in the space of a month or so. 

[Rico1304]

Know a lad who did the training and quit after a month. Said it was a nightmare, all the cons asking his name, which pubs he goes to etc trying to build up a profile of who he was.

 

He's now a Premier League linesman funnily enough.

 

On the drugs thing I know two fellas who decided they could be coke dealers, cutting it themselves etc, and ended up owing out 5 grand and paying more just to "get out" in the space of a month or so.

Happened to a lad I played cricket with. He was given a deadline to pay a grand and told it'd double if he didn’t pay it. Carried in doubling and then the dealer sold the debt to a person higher up the chain. They threatened to rape his sisters, burn his house down etc. In the end his dad had to pay about £70k. They lost their house, pension pot and moved from a 5 bed house to a 2 bed terraced. The little cunt stayed clean for about 6 months before he started again.

[lifetime fan]

Lad I play the unmentionable with did a 7 year stretch for trying to smuggle coke into the country from Jamaica.

 

He and another lad both went out to do it.

 

Other kid walked through customs and lad I play the unmentionable with got pulled. Other kid reckons the ten grand they’d been paid ‘disappeared’ and Alan still doesn’t believe he was fucked over the soft cunt.

[Scott_M]

I was convinced they’d let him off.

He supports us. I’ve met him a handful of times, mostly this season in Sevilla & at Man City in the CL.

 

What the judge has said is right. He hasn’t taken any responsibility that it might be his fault & blames everybody else.

 

And he is guilty. I know he had things in there he shouldn’t have because he quite openly told our group. His defence was “everybody who stores fireworks has stuff they shouldn’t...” Well, not everybody has 2 people die in a huge explosion.

 

Still, that’s 1 European Away credit me and my mates can use for the next 5 to 10 years, so every cloud and all that...