Doing Prison Time

Going To Prison

     It’s uncertain why people would commit crimes knowing it will lead them to go to prison. Your freedom will be taken away, you will have to do what someone say at all times. Knowing right from wrong should be a guide to live by.

     Going to prison is such a dreadful, bitter thing to do. Shame envelop the word, inflicting hardship upon those that has to care for you and the family you left behind. There are no exceptions. Although faced with incredible obstacles with opposition, there is a difference on how one can handle the situation. What is it? You and/or the family can face, handle and deal with it in a productive manner.

     Prison is an isolation from society. It’s always cold in there no matter what season it is on the outside of its walls. You have roll call at 5:30 every morning, 12:00 noon, 5:30 in the evening before shift change and 10:00 at night before you go to bed. No matter if you’re asleep at those times; you have to get up and put the orange suit on just to have roll call even if you’re not going anywhere.

     It is said that everyone who go to prison has an influence as to why they are there. It varies from one individual to another. Some are struggling addicts while another do it because they steal, sell drugs or have killed someone.  No matter the reason they all are going to prison when found guilty. Some for longer periods of time or shorter.

     Though influence is a major topic in discussion this, it is merely an aspect of the grander scale of things. Many would agree that going to prison for whatever reason was not worth the anguish, remorse, and shame that it has put upon the family and themselves. If only one would have thought things out before reacting the prison system would not be as full as it is today.

     Angelique has been to prison for threating a government official and I hated it.  My family had to find time outside of work to come visit me, send me money, packages for clothing and personal items. I was use to my own bed; not some hard mattress that was half the size of my height. No more going to the refrigerator when I wanted to or watching what I wanted to on television.

     This is not just a story that you get out of a book. It’s real. Going to prison is no joke. I wouldn’t want anyone to go to prison. They talk to you however they feel like it. You’re just a number with no say so to whatever they tell you to do. If you do what they say all will be good and if you don’t you go to lock down where you come out of your cell for one hour. Within that hour you have to bath, use the phone and maybe exercise if you have use your time wisely.

Coming to this understanding that prison isn’t for me and will never go back for any reason at all. I found out that it’s easier to just think before you react instead of reacting then think.