30 Days 8/30 - Jail

[skaeight]

It looks like no one made a thread for the 30 Days finale, so here it is. I thought it was an amazing epsiode. Definitely eye opening. I just can't believe that the normal population is just thrown in one area and they never get to leave. It's not at all like what you see in movies and tv (i.e. prison break) where they get to go out in the yard, play basketball, lift weights, etc. This most definitely seems like a cost cutting measure in these newer prisons.

The only good thing I saw was the drug rehabilitation prison. It seemed more like what prison "should" be. Structure, and attempts at reform. The general population prison was basically throw them in there let them rot, and hope they learn their lesson.

It was really sad to see that both of the inmates Morgon got to know were arrested again within 2 weeks of release.

[ireland967]

I've always heard of prison overcrowding, but seeing how they stacked people up in those cells was pretty sobering.

I wonder how the addict Morgan met would have fared if he had finished the program. He sounded so positive in his last days at the center, but I had the sneaking feeling something would quickly change when he's back on the street with familiar faces. It has to be hard to disappear from a life you lived for 10 years, no matter how bad it was.

[jamesbobo]

My one problem with the show: how can Morgan be treated the same as any other prisoner when he is being followed by a cameraman and everyone else knows about it?

To the original poster: not all prisons are the same. This was not a maximum security prison, no murderers/rapists here. And don't believe anything you see on a TV show.

[MikeMar]

in prison break

aren't there guys there that are on like <2 year terms, while Lincoln is there on a murder charge? they would not be in the same prision

[JFriday]

Just shows that most cons are cons, they even con themselves to think they want to change.

[skaeight]

My one problem with the show: how can Morgan be treated the same as any other prisoner when he is being followed by a cameraman and everyone else knows about it?

To the original poster: not all prisons are the same. This was not a maximum security prison, no murderers/rapists here. And don't believe anything you see on a TV show.
I completely agree about different treatment, which actually might have been a good thing. It's highly unlikely someone was going to do something to harm Morgan if he had a camera crew following him around.

I think the point of my post is that a lot people have a perception of prison that isn't even close to accurate. When I think of a prison I think of situations like Prison Break and Shawshank Redemption. It seems that the way they are built and run has changed a lot over the years.

[MijtheMage]

Is it true that around 50% of prisoners are there on drug-related charges? That's unreal.

And although I'm sure everyone knew Morgan was an outsider and so he was treated differently, I got the idea that he wasn't followed by the cameras 24-7. In any case, it wouldn't have been me that volunteered to be jailed for 30 days.

[darthrsg]

Spurlock went to a p***y jail.

[Rkkeller]

The thing about prisons is all are different with different housings, ways of feeding, exercise time, etc.... I don't think any major or maximum security prisons would allow him to do what he did so he had to use a minimum security one.

I don't know anything firsthand :eek: but there have been a bunch of specials on MSNBC recently and their MSNBC Investigates series. They go behind the scenes in various prisons and tell about them, interview inmates, etc....

Its a shame that so many are in jail simply for marijuana sales or possession.