Comments on: Prison Diary Online

By: Jimmy C

Jimmy C — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:52:44 +0000

Lemme ask you haters a question. If you were a prisoner who honestly missed his family because you’d barely seen them throughout the last five years, how would you feel about this design?

By: Anne

Anne — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 21:26:31 +0000

Tent City is in AZ. It's part of the Maricopa County Correctional Facilities. People get mad at Sheriff Joe Arpaio for keeping prisoners there, and for making them work/pay for their food… but it keeps people from offending again! (BTW, if people are too poor or can't work, they still get fed.)

On holidays, they do get holiday food… but it's still made very inexpensively. Something like $0.75/inmate. Saves the taxpayers a ton of money.

By: Andre Ribeiro

Andre Ribeiro — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:27:04 +0000

Oh yeah, this must be the worst idea ever man!!!
The cell phone activity from inside correctional system in Brazil grants the thugs a way to command the criminal company with ease. Many times grand criminal operations, including the raids of attacks to police officers where dictated by this tech.

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By: Callie

Callie — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:56:08 +0000

Anyone else notice how many misspelled words there are on the advertisement? Maybe its a joke?

By: Canterburry

Canterburry — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:02:28 +0000

Write letters. Period.

As in yours.

By: Channa Support

Channa Support — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:16:48 +0000

I think it’s a decent idea. A few years takes forever to go by even for me. I couldn’t imagine being in prison for a few years with nothing to do and no one to talk to for making a mistake.

Excluding rapists and murderers. Put them in a straightjacket and completely keep them from contacting the outside world.

By: Brazell

Brazell — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:15:58 +0000

Probably wouldn’t be given to the most violent criminals, but I’d have to think that this is a bad idea regardless. As it is now, gang leaders in prisons order hits on people on the inside and outside by a complex messaging system that may or may not eventually make it to the outside and then the murder is committed … I don’t think that we need to give them the ability to broadcast those messages on the internet.

Also, for inmates convicted of violent crimes (while I am sure that most people wouldn’t want to give them the right to blog in prison), it’s another way to potentially torment their victims. The victims do not need to read the blog entries, but at the same time, why even bother giving somebody that chance?

By: Dr.Evil Genius

Dr.Evil Genius — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:14:03 +0000

Prisons are supposed to be for rehabilitation and for too many prisoners, the prison system serves to debilitate inmates.

Remember that many prisoners do not get “25-years-to-life” and do get released everyday.

Why make their return to society more difficult? It will only make life tougher for everyone they come across [that they don't kill] so ideas like this seem positive to me.

I have seen programs on some European prisons and the dudes there tend to be less violent and less likely to escape during their sentence or return to prison upon release. Those prisons treat them like human beings and the result appears to be more positive than the results we get here on a regular basis.

By: Curves

Curves — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:12:33 +0000

It was my understanding that prisoners do not have internet access. I dont wish to judge them all, but, I fear its just another way to commit crime. If indeed they do have, or are granted access, I hope they are marked as prisoners, like their outgoing mail and telephone calls are.