Dana13 asked this question on 4/17/2000:
I have often wondered why a person doesn't go "hysterical" at the thought of going to jail. If I thought for one minute that I would be locked up for a period of YEARS, I would absolutely go out of my mind. I know hardened criminals think differently than we do, but what about the "average Joes" who accidently get mixed up in something awful and get sentenced to jail? Thanks much.
Fr_Chuck gave this response on 4/17/2000:
it is a world all into itself, and the laws of human conduct don't belong there,
it is not place for normal men. and many are worst than others
but that is the trouble, when people are doing things, they just don't beeive that they will get caught and go to jail.
Dana13 asked this follow-up question on 4/17/2000:
That's true...people don't believe they'll get caught. But don't any of these men go into severe depression? Do you ever run into an average "family man" who simply did something stupid, like panic and end up in a hit-and-run situation, for example?
Fr_Chuck gave this response on 4/17/2000:
very few of the men I know that went in could really ever stay the same, you have to live by the rules of the house so to speak
most of the hit and run people and DUI that I know were lucky enought to go to the more min security camps and even farm camps some times, but they are still bad, but nothing like the max and high max that I used to deal with.
the lock down 23/7 , the pure isolation of four concrete walls make it really hard. but so do walking into a room of 100 inmates in for God knows what and knowing that one guard when he is not helping inanother unit is there to watch them. The inmate is in charge but the guards just don't know it
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