[Silver Bullet]

no its most catergories ,u can even have a playstation in ya cell ,,i think they'd doctor yor ds though so u cant do the wireless

[Gypsy Nirvana]

......when I was inside...(illegal importation of hashish)......all we had for entertainment was chess and maybe a book......banged up 23 hours a day in a small cell with 2 others.....slopping out every morning.....bad food.......and bad company........and an hour to walk around some prison yard every day....

yeah i remember slopping the piss buckets ,shit parcels and 23 hour lock up ,,luckily they changed it all in the 90's, but i'm sure dartmore ,winson green and wormwood still have slopping out ,,the smell of them buckets was enough to stop me going back forever

[Silver Bullet]

Originally Posted by Gypsy Nirvana

......when I was inside...(illegal importation of hashish)......all we had for entertainment was chess and maybe a book......banged up 23 hours a day in a small cell with 2 others.....slopping out every morning.....bad food.......and bad company........and an hour to walk around some prison yard every day....

I'm surprised they had you on 23 hour lock down for a non violent crime.

What do prisoners do during those 23 hours? There's probably no room to do pushups or anything...plus you'd be sitting around in your own sweat.

Do they give you books or do you have to stare at the wall?

went for about 3 years, level 2 in california.

so did your level 2 allowed the tvs?

nope no tv besides the one in everyone got to watch, there was a channel that had 2 prison approved movies per week, and some basic cable channels, the library was one we could go to, and wasnt brought to us on a cart.

[Silver Bullet]

Could friends/family send you reading material?

usually it had to be straight from the vendor, like amazon.com, so that way your family couldnt send you books with the pages dipped in liquid meth or stuff like that.

Like with laws in general, rules vary from state to state, and institution to institution, though federal facilities in the U.S. are fairly standardized, and privledges often depend on whether or not you've screwed up or angered someone.

I can't recall if I ever tried to send literature in the form of books to an inmate, though I don't think that I did. I did write letters regularly to some, which were read both directions by the guards.

I set up a telephonic interview with an Alaska fellow doing a minimum mandatory while he was in a Texas FCI; I contacted the warden at that FCI re. the interview, using letter-head from the public radio station where a talk host had agreed to do the interview. The show went over an hour past the normal one hour limit, and the warden nor his guards hassled the person being interviewed, which, during his time, was unusual. They provided that person with a small room and a telephone for the interview. They were surprisingly reasonable in that instance.

moose eater

[Silver Bullet]

what are you, a writer?