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Originally posted by flashguy:

I did once visit the Arizona Prison at Florence . . . I was told before going to not wear anything denim.

I'm curious. What was the reason for no denim?

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

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Originally posted by flashguy:

I did once visit the Arizona Prison at Florence . . . I was told before going to not wear anything denim.

I'm curious. What was the reason for no denim?

Inmates in Florence wear denim pants and blue chambray shirts.

I spent 4 hours in jail once. Got caught speeding through a mall parking lot at 11:30 PM. The nicest officer I ever met pulled me over. After a brief explanation that mall parking lots are not like other parking lots, he stated he was giving me a warning and off I went. I tossed the paper in the back seat and never gave it another thought. A week later I moved.

Turns out he checked the citation box and since I believed it was over and I moved with no forwarding address, a bench warrant was issued. Skip ahead three years. I got pulled over on my bicycle for speeding through a school zone. Yes, on a bicycle. Yes, faster that 20 mph. Yes, in full pseudo-homo biking race gear.

The officer finds the bench warrant and hauls me off to jail in my colorful tinkerbell racing tights and clicky clack quick release shoes. I was only missing the violet eye shadow and hastily applied rouge. I made a frantic call to my roommates to bring my wallet down and pay the fine.

At the jail I was told I would not be given a change of clothes and that at dinner time I would have to eat with gen pop in my happy clothes. In the nick of time my roommate shows up and I'm sprung from jail.

Years later I learned the original officer who checked citation rather than warning, would be my brother-in-law. We laugh about it occasionally.

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Originally posted by gw3971:

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

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Originally posted by flashguy:

I did once visit the Arizona Prison at Florence . . . I was told before going to not wear anything denim.

I'm curious. What was the reason for no denim?

Inmates in Florence wear denim pants and blue chambray shirts.

Sounds like inmates in the NAVY!

No, but I thought I was going once. To the point I said it to myself.. "Well, I'm going to jail."

I have had the police pointing their guns at me on two seperate occasions however.
I truly "dindo-nufin" either time.
The one time I was I suppose, an armed robbery suspect, so understandable. The second was an overabundance of caution on their part perhaps.

A couple of times. Once spent four days in maximum security because I was the only civil prisoner among 2-3,000 criminal prisoners at Santa Rita jail in Alameda Co, California.

I did nothing wrong, but a judge in a civil action thought he would push me around be cause he could. Never trusted the judicial system again.

Nope. Never got caught

I have visited the drunk tank once. I was 22 yo, playing quarters with some college buddies, afterwards decided to take a nap in some bushes in a residential neighborhood.

I can neither confirm, nor deny, any incident that may, or may not, have led to any form of incarceration...

1986. spent 4 hours in the Alexandria Va city jail for contempt of court in a case against my first ex-wife at the time. My boss at the time bailed me out.

2010. Arrested and spent 1 night in the DCMP jail for carrying a loaded handgun into a federal building while on the job. Released the next day. Verizon fired me the day after that. ADA for the District of Columbia after looking at all the facts wanted to drop the charges, but the DA for DC wanted to get something out of it, so charges dropped to misdemeanors, $50 fine, 1 year unsupervised probation. Kept my gun rights and Verizon hired me back 4 months later. Went through a hassle getting my clearance reinstated for access into federal facilities, but got that back also.

60 or so years of undiscovered crime!

Many times but never as an overnight guest. Taught at Oxford Federal Correctional Insitute in Wisconsin. Been in many county lockups throughout East Tennessee, Wisconsin and Mississippi. Some places worse than others. Generally treated well. The conditions were always better in Federal lockups. One jail in East Tennessee had the following inscription in stone above the entrance" It don't pay to do wrong" Made an impression.

Twice. Once as a 16 year old kid for getting caught racing my Triumph Bonneville vs my boss on his '68 XLCH on the freeway on the way home from Friday night Ascot flat track races. Cops called my Dad, and he told them he'd come get me on Monday morning.

Second time: Pulled over for no front license plate. Arguing with a jack boot motor cop about "When is the last time you were arrested? being vague. After 5-6 rounds of increasingly heated exchanges, I asked him "when was the last time you fucked your wife in the ass?" I learned it is possible to be pulled through the open window of a car without the car door being opened, and spent one night in jail on several charges.

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Originally posted by gw3971:

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

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Originally posted by flashguy:

I did once visit the Arizona Prison at Florence . . . I was told before going to not wear anything denim.

I'm curious. What was the reason for no denim?

Inmates in Florence wear denim pants and blue chambray shirts.

Exactly. I wore a white dress shirt (no tie--I was "representing" Texas Instruments for my visit) and nice slacks. They did let me leave.

flashguy

Nope. I have however done more than my share of stupid things. Different times. 17 years old with a case of beer in the car (unopened). Local cop pulled me over, saw the beer and said: "Go to where ever you are going and stay there, I do not want to see this car on the road again tonight". He didn't even take the beer.

Fast forward 30 years, a nephew in a similar situation. Arrested, charged, had to go to court, sentenced to rehab. All in all, I am happy to have been a teenager in the '70's.

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Originally posted by FN in MT:
I spent some time at Rahway State prison in NJ. The Lifer area. I didn't care for it.

Took juvenile offenders there for the Scared Straight program. It was a good program. Never had a kid make it home without throwing up. Never saw another of them "officially" either.

We left everything at the Guards station, from gun and cuffs, to ID and pens. I always hoped they would put off the next riot until I'd left for the day.

Could NOT imagine doing hard time.

A relative of mine worked at Rahway for about 30 years and ran the Scared Straight program for part of that time. He took me inside once and as we walked about the wings and the yard, I felt far more on edge than I did working a one-man car on the night watch in the ghetto. It was quite apparent that while inside, your well-being was in the hands of the inmates and I found that to be quite disconcerting.

One of the Lifers who was in the program was a big HD guy, saw all the tats, etc. He seemed to be fairly respected among the other lifers . I asked one of the Guards if I could bring him in a copy of Easy Rider magazine, which he allowed me to do. I gave it to him and thanked him for the good he was doing with the kids. When actually I was hoping that gift may save my ass should anything ever happen. LOL.
Rahway WAS a scary assed, dirty old place wasn't it?

While at Fort Belvoir in 1969, I spent a quality night in the Army Navy Brig in DC and most of the next day in the Belvoir stockade.

In one of those perverse reversals of fortune, my company commander found out I could type 60 words a minute. He made me a company clerk and I was exempt from all nasty duties and had a private room in the barracks.

numerous times in the early 80"s but I was on the outside of the doors holding the keys. ............................drill sgt.

I've (very briefly) been to jail for failing to appear to traffic court. I forgot.

It was a bit embarrassing, and a poor use of my time and money.

I was touring the Iowa State Reformatory at Anamosa the night Martin Luther King was shot.
We were a ways from the main entrance and a guard came to our group and announced that we would bed in lock down until all the inmates were returned to their cells and accounted for.
We were held for about an hour then escorted out.
While a deputy I took an prisoner to Ft. Madison.
The prison was built before Iowa became a state in 1846. A real spooky place.

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Originally posted by FN in MT:

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Originally posted by FiveFiveSixFan:

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Originally posted by FN in MT:
I spent some time at Rahway State prison in NJ. The Lifer area. I didn't care for it.

Took juvenile offenders there for the Scared Straight program. It was a good program. Never had a kid make it home without throwing up. Never saw another of them "officially" either.

We left everything at the Guards station, from gun and cuffs, to ID and pens. I always hoped they would put off the next riot until I'd left for the day.

Could NOT imagine doing hard time.

A relative of mine worked at Rahway for about 30 years and ran the Scared Straight program for part of that time. He took me inside once and as we walked about the wings and the yard, I felt far more on edge than I did working a one-man car on the night watch in the ghetto. It was quite apparent that while inside, your well-being was in the hands of the inmates and I found that to be quite disconcerting.

One of the Lifers who was in the program was a big HD guy, saw all the tats, etc. He seemed to be fairly respected among the other lifers . I asked one of the Guards if I could bring him in a copy of Easy Rider magazine, which he allowed me to do. I gave it to him and thanked him for the good he was doing with the kids. When actually I was hoping that gift may save my ass should anything ever happen. LOL.
Rahway WAS a scary assed, dirty old place wasn't it?

It STILL IS a scary assed, dirty old place.