How Families are Affected by Prison

by admin on February 22, 2011

“1 in every 15 will at some point spend time in prison”.

“What to expect if I have a family member going to prison”. These are the words that I hear over and over, so here is a few things that you should be aware of…

There are truly countless lives affected by people going to prison across our country… Wives and daughters, fathers and friends, mothers and uncles, aunts and girlfriends, sons and grandmothers, cousins and boyfriends, grandfathers, and lets not forget great-grandparents or sisters or brothers. Everyone that they know is affected in some way. [click to continue…]

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How to Make Prison Ink (part 2)

by admin on February 20, 2011

Below you will find a more complete picture or what you need to make ink from scratch in prison. Homemade ink if you live inside the state penitentiary. [click to continue…]

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How to Make Prison Ink (part 1)

February 19, 2011

There are two (2) components to making tattoos in prison; you need ink and you need a tattoo gun. In the free world, ink is no harder than grabbing a bottle, shaking it up, and pouring it out. In prison, it’s a different story. The gun (though it also needs to be assembled) is also [...]

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Prison Security Problems

February 14, 2011

Security on death row has been a problem in the past. In 1995, when the Arkansas’s Tucker Unit held death-row inmates, a State Police investigation found a massive smuggling operation. State troopers found contraband including a priest’s cassock, weapons, gunpowder, syringes and a greeting card with marijuana leaves on it. The investigation began after the [...]

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Prison Love

February 14, 2011

A Freedom of Information Act request uncovered details of the firing of Varner Unit guard Danita Williams in July. A letter by the warden claimed she helped the unnamed death-row inmate trade crackers in a laundry bag for soup from another prisoner. However, an internal investigation uncovered allegations that a romantic relationship between Williams and [...]

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Abuse of Power

February 14, 2011

JOLIET, Ill. – Drowsy spectators in one suburban Chicago courtroom might want to stifle their yawns from now on. Clifton Williams, 33, of Richton Park, is facing six months in jail for making what court documents call a yawn-like sound in Will County Judge Daniel Rozak’s court last month. The yawn happened as Williams’ cousin, [...]

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Going to Prison (part 1)

February 13, 2011

If you happen to be traveling down the road of “I possibly may be going to prison”, then here are a few tips that might help you miss a few potholes: If you are being charged with a felony and might be going to prison or positive that you are going to prison, It would [...]

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Betsey Wright

February 13, 2011

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A former chief of staff for Bill Clinton when he was governor of Arkansas faces felony charges accusing her of trying to smuggle a knife and 48 tattoo needles onto the state’s death row on May 22, 2009. The charges against Betsey Wright come as The Associated Press obtained documents showing [...]

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Prison Riot in California

February 13, 2011

Rioting inmates smashed and burned a large California prison on Saturday night and Sunday morning (August 8th & 9th, 2009), injuring 250 prisoners and hospitalizing 55. Many fear the crowding that may have helped escalate the brawl will only get. Next week state lawmakers begin deciding how to cut $1.2 billion from the corrections budget, [...]

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OverCrowed Prisons

February 13, 2011

It’s standing room only, and it’s only getting worse. When the economy takes a plunge, $prisons feel the crunch. Unfortunately, shoplifters go to prison same as serial killers. Some may say our prison system has become a warehouse for storing human lives. Or, is it a job security system that only has one objective, keep [...]

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