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Recently met a guy who is in prison part-time (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Asked him what he was doing in a few days in the evening and he told me "can't hang out, I'm in prison." He's in prison in the evenings and every other weekend.

Gave him a ride to the prison too, we stopped for burgers and he was worried he was gonna be "late for prison."

He got arrested via letter.

I dunno, system and so on, but also just... That's funny. Remove systemic critique from your mind and just grasp the concept of being late for prison. Remove the rational thought too, because it kinda makes sense to let people be in prison part-time. It's super normal. Just... Part time prison. It's funny. It's like a guy turning himself into a pickle. Funniest shit I've ever seen.

Imagine getting arrested by letter. Wouldn't be me, I'm built different (I did get arrested by letter once actually, funniest shit. Didn't show up and my mom called the police to tell them off for sending me the letter lmao. She's not important, there's no calss thing, she's just a mom. They apologised to her lol)

I need to stress this is real.

Since a lot of people read this like it's in the US and it's the US system - It's not. It's one of those damn commie scandinavian countries

edit: Since a lot of people read this like it's in the US and it's the US system - It's not. It's one of those damn commie scandinavian countries

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

Phil Neel talks about these setups in his Hinterlands book. as he spent time in the clink in Washington I believe.

it sounded fucked. like obviously people prefer it to losing their job and never being away from a shithole facility, but unless you have a support network you probably lose your living situation and possessions unless you have somewhere to keep em, and if you're "late" for any reason your sentence quickly shifted to full time or maybe you don't get to go to work that week and your boss fires you. and if there's any sort of organized action / collective punishment for the prison, they keep people on lockdown and they lose their job.

unless of course it's an "understanding" employer who targets hiring carceral employees and exploits the shit out of their desperation.

obviously, if you aren't fucked broke and have a family to support you and maybe you work for someone who will cut you slack for missed time due to prison shit, it's a good deal. if you're on the margins, it seems like a way to really squeeze people and make them even more compliant while keeping their labor active.