Life in prison, or life in prison?

Currently in Wa State, 25 years is a life

sentence. If your mom and dad and your spouse, or children are important, its
fucking hard. Even if they write to you, visit every visiting day its hard. Money
on your books makes it easier,, but still life is going on and you are not in it.

If you are isolated as i was, no visitors, no mail and only enough money from work
for the minimum amount of hygiene.

Holidays suck. Except maybe that for some reason the spirit of christmas was alive
in there. Charity saw to it that we got some small trinket every day. A bar of
hotel soap., a sample of loti�n. Cookies. And people shared. Willingly and
generously. After new year it was back to noone rides for free.

The programs were a easy step to stay sane and keep busy. Music programs were
incredible! Some of the groups did cover songs as well as the original band. Often
the group would be christian, and who ee. We got to watch up and coming country and
Christian acts thst usually had a hit cd, or their cd became popular within weeks
of playing for us. There was cinco de mayo for latinas, martin luther king day
food.

The followers of the red road, Natives and friends held a yearly pow wow and up to
300 guests attended as if we were free.

We werent free though. Minimum security was close, but no lifers stayed there. I
stayed in maximum in Mary Kay Letorneau's old cell. There were four lifers there.

Medium was where the majority of the lifers stayed. They more or less called the
shots mostly for the respect we held them in. After all, each of us would be able
to move on, get out and maybe even return again and again.

But For the lifers, they would remain. Through staff changes, new and returning
women weekly, after volunteers stopped coming. They would never hear roll up.
Likely would have most of the people they knew die in the outs. And even their own
family would slowly dwindle also. Many would die there from old age. There was
several ladies in their 70's.

That was the scariest thought about it for me. No one would even mourn their
passing or even remember them out here.

For me it wasnt bad until one time in solitary i checked the door. After four years
in and out of jail, I had never checked the door. I had always pretended in my mind
it wasnt locked, that this wasnt real.

Now I had checked and realized that nothing could open that door for me except a
guard with a key. If there was an earthquake, a fire poisonous gas it didnt matter,
I was locked up and at the mercy of God. I believe that the resulting panic attacks
triggered my PTSD

Oddly enough, you can be in prison in a relationship, a job, your free life on the
outs. And chances are it will be worse than the one I was in.
Honestly, life behind bars is far easier than life on the outside. You do not have
to work for anything, you are given a bed, warm food, your laundry is washed for
you, you are given free clothes, etc. Some people love being in prison because they
can just lay around and watch TV all day while getting fat.

A private prison, or for-profit prison, is a place where people are imprisoned by a

third party that is contracted by a government agency. Private prison companies
typically enter into contractual agreements with governments that commit prisoners
and then pay a per diem or monthly rate, either for each prisoner in the facility,
or for each place available, whether occupied or not. Such contracts may be for the
operation only of a facility, or for design, construction and operation.
A private prison, on the other hand, is run by a corporation. That corporation's
end goal is to profit from anything they deal in. In order to make money as a
private prison, they receive a stipend from the government. This money from the
government can be paid in a multitude of different ways.J