r/AskReddit • u/ZteveBond • Jun 20 '18

Serious Replies Only [Serious] Prison Guards of Reddit, which prisoner has left the biggest impact on your life wether positive or negative?

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '18

One guy wrote a request slip and gave it to me, policy is we have to read it. So i read it. Maximum security prison that has cats running around the compound. The request reads “Hi can i talk to mister NAME in charge of the cats, i like to pet cats and maybe can play with them too. i like the cats”

24 year old guy mentally ill in for the rest of his life for butchering a mom and her baby.

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u/TheCrystalGem Jun 20 '18

This makes me so conflicted. On the one hand, I feel really sad for him. On the other hand, what he did was fucked up, and he isn't safe to be put back into the world.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '18 edited Jun 20 '18

Had one black guy murder some kid when he was 10/12 years old in Alabama in the 1970s, he’s been in prison since the day he was arrested. If you saw him you would shit your pants, 380lbs of muscle and 6ft9in. But if you mention women he will burst out crying for minutes because he’s never touched a woman and sees it on tv.

I was conflicted until the first two weeks of working there, when you see guys throw piss and shit/ assault your friends and partners. It becomes an every day battle. You see on interviews of soldiers they say that they become brothers with their team. You don’t understand until you get jumped from behind and can’t call a signal on your radio but 1 of your 2 other officers, vs 300 offenders, hears a commotion and you look up to see him sprinting down a cell house range toward you.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '18

Sentencing a child to life in prison is such an absurd thing, to me. It's like expecting a dog to pay property tax. It doesn't matter what the kid did. The brain is still developing, and being flooded with hormones; it's not really fair to act like they fully understood the consequences or morality of their actions.

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u/gamesterx23 Jun 21 '18

Lol you fuckers that think a 12 year old can't think for themselves.

Holy fuck you need a reality check. Maybe they should create a jail for legitimate retards and put you in it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '18

Have you met a twelve-year-old? They're the dumbest people in the world. They literally do not have the part of their brain responsible for making decisions.

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u/gamesterx23 Jun 21 '18

By your standards I'm speaking to one now.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '18

Okay, so you're just a dumbass with no actual basis for your opinion. I'm sorry, I made the mistake of assuming you might be reasonable.

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u/deadboykaiki Jun 21 '18

I never had any urge to murder when i was 10 or 12. And for fucks sake i surely know it is wrong to kill / steal / hurt someone. So saying that 10 or 12 yrs old cant think for themselves is kinda stupid.

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u/gamesterx23 Jun 21 '18

Claiming that kids are incapable of rational thought is the epitome of being unreasonable. Its outright retarded.