Do you know anyone in jail or prison?

i have many family members on my mom side that are in and out of prison. They r gang members and do stupid things.

Yes, I have a cousin who is in jail for 7 years for armed robbery. 7 years is kinda too much but I guess the judge looked at his other "deeds"-he's 24, has always been an unruly wild child, did a couple of robberies, multiple fights and an attempted rape. He's still my cousin but sometimes I wonder what had happened to him

I know one person that is in prison. I don't want to go into details but I am glad he is there. He definately deserves to be. Besides that I don't know anyone else that is in jail or prison. I know a guy who just got out of prison. He's really cool and I don't think that he ever deserved to be there but I guess that is not my call.

I personally don't know anyone, who has been in jail. However, I do know that a friend of mine does. I believe that it was someone that she, my friend, dated, or something to that effect. I can't remember exactly, but it was something like that.

My brother-in-law is in prison right now. He was accused for something that we know he is not capable of doing and most of all at that time his family were having a crisis. But of course now, he has lost his family. He's still in prison because he doesn't have enough money to hire a lawyer. And the lawyer that he paid thousands of dollars took the money but didn't do anything. What's worse? That lawyer knows his ex-wife's family. The other thing too that I think why he's still in prison, ever since his ex-wife's family knew my brother-in-law's family, they never liked them. So they're taking advantage of this situation and keeping him in there because of that fact.

The three strikes laws are amoung the dumbest we have ever made. We have more people per capita in prison then most other nations many for petty stuff. Where property crimes are concerned it's the value of what's stolen or damaged that determines whether it's a misdemeanor or felony crime and the values limits are pretty low so it isn't hard to commit a felony just by stealing a bunch of DVD's, breaking a toilet etc. We all know our jails and prisons have revolving doors. That recividism is common and rehabilitation tough to accomplish. But with non violent crimes we shouldn't be locking people away forever. What we should have is truth in sentencing. A first time crime could be eligible for probation. A second time crime you do some time but you're eligible for early release with good behavior. Third and subsequent crimes you serve every day that you're sentenced to and then you still do a parole period. Violent crimes, (but not simple assults with no severe or lasting injury) Should have more severe penalties. They should do time, real time, the first time - no deals for a straight probation. At some point I'm o.k. with the perpetually violent being locked up for the rest of their life before they kill somebody. But the way the law is now is just stupid.

[i]Hi doula, I have a neighbor who was in prison because of murder. Both father and son. I have visited them once way back when I was in College, I just accompany my cousins who were their friends! I don't know what happen to their case but 8 years ago, I heard the son was released and hiding after that since he impregnated his cousin and the whole family was mad at him since the girl was 16 years old that time! Actually, they are not bad before, I do know what made them change![/i]

My ex-husband spent the majority of our six year marriage in jail or prison. He was sent to prison on our son's first birthday, when I was only 2 months pregnant with my daughter. He got out on parole when she was 14 months old. The last I knew of him, he was in again and won't get out until the year 2011. He is one of those people who never seems to learn his lesson.