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I have got a couple of mates who just got released after 2 and a bit years for drug offences. They were relative clean-skins at the time of their arrest however because of the scale of the criminality they got a decent whack by the judge even for first timers.

Now these guys aren't huge body builders or anything. Just your standard 5'10, 75kg kilo blokes in their mid 20s.

Some of the things they've told me :

*The Remand Centre in Spencer St is by far the worst place to be in as everyone is mixed together regardless of the offence.

*The old 'don't pick up the soap in the shower' sort of thing is massively over-rated. Sure there are some young fellas who might put themselves out for drugs but overall it really doesn't happen - and if it does it gets kept pretty quiet.

*Drugs of choice are sleeping tablets (for the long termers) and pot (in the country prisons).

*In the medium security country prison they were housed in a 6 man cabin. This contained a television, lounge, kitchen, bathroom - just like a normal house but fairly bare. It was fairly cruisy except if you got some nutter in your cabin. Unfortunately you don't get too choose your flatmates !!!!!

*It can get pretty tense at times and you have to be on alert most of the time.

*If you mind your own business you will generally get left alone however this didn't stop one bloke throwing a weight at one of my mates one day because he thought he was looking at him.

*The saddest individuals in there are the guys who get locked up for driving offences. They are suddenly thrown into another world amongst people who talk and act in a different language.

*All in all its not that pleasant but its also not as bad as its made out either.

I know it might be different in maximum security.

Anyone else got any tales ?
 
Thanks for the insights there Daytripper,

Sounds like if you keep to yourself you will generally be ok. And here I was watching Oz thinking if I ever go to jail Id be a pretty bitch.

However I too have heard some horro stories about the remand centre.
 

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Daytripper said:
*The old 'don't pick up the soap in the shower' sort of thing is massively over-rated.
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Yeah I've got a mate who did some time and he said the same thing. He never once saw or heard about anything of that sort happening.

Daytripper said:
Anyone else got any tales ?
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I heard an interesting tale from a mates dad a few years back. He's an old-school cockney who had a bit to do with the old London 'gangster' scene. He even used to know a few of the guys you hear mentioned in stories about the Kray brothers.

He's only a little fella but probably the hardest bloke I've ever met. Apparently he used to fight in underground bare knuckle tournaments in London when he was younger.

Anyway he was telling me about when he first got sent to a juvie institution in London when he was about 15. "I won't lie to you" he says "I was pretty scared. I was just a kid and I'm not ashamed to say I was missing me mum and all that shit."

He reckons the first week there he got involved in a misunderstanding ending with another guy threatening to get him later. So, rather than wait around for it to happen, he walks in on this guy that night in the showers and beats him to a pulp.

This was back in the old school cockney 'code of honour' days where no one ever snitched to the screws or the cops no matter what, so the other kid never named him as his attacker

"And mate... after that... no one ever f**ked with me again. Not in the whole time I was there."
 
andrew frasers's book 'court in the middle' is a good read, especially if you wanna know about this sorta stuff.
 
estibador said:
Yeah I've got a mate who did some time and he said the same thing. He never once saw or heard about anything of that sort happening.
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If I'd been repeatedly skewered in a prison shower I probably wouldn't be bragging to my mates on the outside about it.
 
Geelong_Sicko said:
Some folk just get bad breaks in life, Kev. They get caught in a cycle that can be bloody hard to escape. Count yourself lucky if you or your circle haven't but it's not always the case...
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Yeah they do but they let themselves. It's not like they don't have a choice in the matter.
 
Daytripper said:
*The old 'don't pick up the soap in the shower' sort of thing is massively over-rated. Sure there are some young fellas who might put themselves out for drugs but overall it really doesn't happen - and if it does it gets kept pretty quiet.
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estibador said:
Yeah I've got a mate who did some time and he said the same thing. He never once saw or heard about anything of that sort happening.
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MalceskiFan said:
If I'd been repeatedly skewered in a prison shower I probably wouldn't be bragging to my mates on the outside about it.
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:thumbsu: precisely

Daytripper, this is an awesome thread :thumbsu::thumbsu::thumbsu::thumbsu:
 

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I was close to someone who had been out for a few months. It's a different world inside and you need to be careful with them when they get out.
 
Know one guy that ended up in jail for 6 months and he said it was pretty cruisy. He was at a low security prison. Said the only issue he had was when he ripped out an article of a guys newspaper and he got headbutted, but the guy apologised to him after. Said he had a tv, foxtel movies, had access to computers etc. Then he got put on house arrest for another 6 months.
 
I know a guy who I can't stand that did 18 months for picking up a girl at a night club, turned out that she was 15 and her parents pressed charges.
He was at the prison that built the Golf course.
He said that it was like a 18 month holiday, they got pretty much anything they wanted and he even needed new clothes so he had a shopping day with a guard.
 
I don't know the guy but he is a boyfriend of a friends friend, if that makes sense.

Recently went to jail for 18 months for drink driving causing bodily harm, or something like that. Was drunk and hurt someone bad whilst driving. Deserved jail IMO. This guy is like 22.
He got sentenced to medium security.

But yeah apparently he said when he went in a few people were staring him down pretty aggressively, and once he got to his cell he didn't go out for 2 or 3 days as he was shitting himself. When he did go out though, the guys came up and spoke to him and were nice to him etc..

Don't really know him but apparently it's not THAT bad.

Still, I would rather steer clear :p
 

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the_fresh said:
I know a guy who I can't stand that did 18 months for picking up a girl at a night club, turned out that she was 15 and her parents pressed charges.
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How is he supposed to know though? Shouldn't it be the nightclubs fault for letting an underage person in, or the girl for having a fake ID?
 
My uncle was a jailbird back in the early 80s... Did time at Cessnock, Long Bay and Pentridge.

He knew some CIB's inFrankston where I grew up and organised for me to spend an hour in the cells as a 10 year old. Ive never thanked him for it, but its the sole act thats kept me on the relative straight and narrow.


Only thing he ever told me about inside was when he saw a rapist get killed.

This rapist was killed by the jamming of a broomstick up his ass... violently. Long Bay... Circa 1983.


Had a few mates do time, some hard, some soft (time).


All in all, its still enough to keep me in check!!!
 
The Dice Man said:
My uncle was a jailbird back in the early 80s... Did time at Cessnock, Long Bay and Pentridge.

He knew some CIB's inFrankston where I grew up and organised for me to spend an hour in the cells as a 10 year old. Ive never thanked him for it, but its the sole act thats kept me on the relative straight and narrow.


Only thing he ever told me about inside was when he saw a rapist get killed.

This rapist was killed by the jamming of a broomstick up his ass... violently. Long Bay... Circa 1983.


Had a few mates do time, some hard, some soft (time).


All in all, its still enough to keep me in check!!!
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bloody hell dicey :eek:
 
stimpy said:
bloody hell dicey :eek:
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I was about 12 when he told me that...


Scared the **** out of me, and I believe has kept me on the right side of the wrong side.

Plus, Im far too pretty to do time, adding further to the scare-mongering.



Society has a lot to thank my uncle for ;) (so do I)
 
The Dice Man said:
I was about 12 when he told me that...


Scared the **** out of me, and I believe has kept me on the right side of the wrong side.

Plus, Im far too pretty to do time, adding further to the scare-mongering.



Society has a lot to thank my uncle for ;) (so do I)
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hahaha absolutely dicey, you're far to pretty for hard time.
 

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