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Incarceration, rehabilitation, recidivism: The reality of prison life and what it's like to be an inmate locked up behind bars.
I Thought I'd Always Be a Criminal. Top Story - June 2019.
I am a criminal, I heard that so often that I believed it. My mother told me that my father was killed in a shootout with the police, so I grew up with this idea in my head of who I was based on things I was told. Turns out that my father died almost thirty years after my mother told me that he did. I grew up dirt poor and my step father was physically abusive to me and my sister. We moved to a new city every couple of years, I always felt that I did not fit in. Kids, being who they are, would tease me about my Goodwill clothes and my parents ugly car. I started to steal candy from the local store early on and I learned that if I gave candy to the kids that they would like me or at least pretend to. As I got older I began to associate money with acceptance. I never felt like I was good enough for people to just like me, so I bought friends often by stealing and hustling.
By Daniel Sullivan7 years ago in Criminal
What Happens When a Mentally Ill Person Gets Arrested?
America has a mental health problem that, to outsiders, can look a lot like a criminal problem. The National Alliance on Mental Illness reports almost 15 percent of men and 30 percent of women who are booked into jails have “a serious mental health condition.” While some people believe sending a sick person to jail means they’ll finally “get help,” that’s often not the case. Instead, the mentally ill may languish in prison for longer than those who aren’t suffering from a mental health disorder.
By Tobias Gillot7 years ago in Criminal
Female Prisoners
Female prisoners suffer everyday, their main issue today is health issues. This research article is about many health issues that females go through when they are incarcerated. When I talk about health, I talk about sexual, mental, physical, substance abuse, pregnancy and prison birth, and other health services. Health care issues of women in jails and prisons in the United States generally have been ignored throughout history. These health issues do not seek attention, if they did, it would take days or weeks and it would not be worth the time of wait.
By Julissia Courtney7 years ago in Criminal
10 Horrifying Facts About Life in Angola Prison
Recently, Brooklyn's prison system came under fire after reports of heating being shut off came to light. At the time of the report, prisoners were enduring 33-degree weather, and at times didn't even have flushing toilets. According to protestors, the prisoners got frantic and began to bang on the windows while screaming for help.
By Skunk Uzeki7 years ago in Criminal
The Bloody Truth (Pt. 7)
People die every day. A drug dealer shot on the corner, a drive-by intended for the neighbor that killed the toddler playing in your front yard, cancer, overdoses, and natural death all happens in this world. It's not supposed to happen to you, and it's not supposed to happen in your home! Your home is your place of peace. Your hiding place from the world. Your safe spot in a dangerous, uncaring, and cruel world. For some, closed doors are terrifying because what goes on behind them is unspeakable. For those people, living through the night is a blessing and waking in the morning is a curse.
By Phoenixx Fyre Dean7 years ago in Criminal
The Bloody Truth (Pt. 5)
It is often said that drugs and alcohol go hand in hand with the lifestyle of a killer. The case of the Gilligan family murders from Evansville, Indiana, is just such a case. Donald Ray Wallace, Jr. admitted to being in a drug-induced state of "strike hard, strike fast, don't stop until you win or are dead" when he broke into the family home of the Gilligans, a young Evansville family. That night would leave Evansville stunned and four innocent people dead.
By Phoenixx Fyre Dean7 years ago in Criminal
Response to Chris Campano's 1,000 Year Sentence
Featured in an early episode of Forensic Files (Season 1, Ep 3: "The House That Roared"), Chris Campano will forever be known as a murderer (to the extent he'll be "forever known" at all). Like many murderers, he was apparently enraged when he killed his wife Caren in 1992. Their marriage was less than perfect, as she was regularly on his case about his drug addiction. While it's unclear what final argument activated his rage, it definitely made him homicidal. Caren had 15 skull fractures, three broken ribs, and he wrapped her up in a sheet and phone cord. She was found in March 1993, "near a motocross track in Oklahoma City."
By Wade Wainio7 years ago in Criminal
Robert Ackermann the Cannibal of Vienna
When Robert Ackermann was 19, he left his native city of Cologne, Germany and by August of 2007, he was staying in Vienna, Austria in short-term housing for the mentally ill and homeless that was run by a private charity. At the facility, he shared a room with Josef Schweiger who was 49 and had been living at the facility since June. It was amazing that Ackermann’s behavior and his feuds with his roommate didn’t alarm weekly social workers, but the neighbors on the family-filled tenement block were certainly worried about Ackermann’s behavior. They had argued with the disturbed Ackermann, had seen him crawling naked through the yard howling at the moon, or dumping what appeared to be blood from his window. They realized that this teen was quite dangerous.
By Rasma Raisters7 years ago in Criminal
Twisted Prison Love
This story is almost too strange to be true; the weird thing is that not only is it true but when the TV mini-series (Escape at Dannemora) was being made, they had to find ways to make it seem more logical. Why? Because a married, 50-something woman slept with two prisoners at New York's Clinton Correctional Facility. That part is the only logical part of this sordid tale.
By Edward Anderson7 years ago in Criminal
Killers Who Made Art Behind Bars
From disturbing sketches of their fantasies and kills, to demonic visages and eek-worthy babies, a lot of strange art has come from the minds of jailed serial killers. Some of it, as you would expect, is amateur to childish, while some demonstrates real artistic talent. Given our collective fascination with the morbid and eerie, it's no surprise that these images from killers who made art are as compelling as they are strange and disturbing.
By Nicola P. Young7 years ago in Criminal
My Time in County Lock-up
As a first time female inmate, all I can really say is those jumpsuits are comfy. Growing up, I never would've seen myself behind bars. Even as a high schooler, I didn't engage in any criminal (to the most part) activity. I found myself to be a smart woman, knowing right from wrong and fully capable of making the right choices to avoid exactly such a thing.
By Angie Robinson7 years ago in Criminal
