Games Criminals Play – How You Can Profit By Knowing Them
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First, the post presents itself as a harmless and useful source of information. There's nothing to lose, and you might be informed or at least entertained if you keep reading.
The story spans several different aspects of human behavior. At some point, it might touch on something that you've personally experienced, which makes you more interested in the post.
As the post goes on, it begins to accumulate reasons why the topic is important, and how it can potentially affect you and your life. Before you know it, you begin to feel like you can't afford to ignore the provided advice.
Then finally, the trap is set! An affiliate link is posted, and all you have to do to feel better about the situation is whip out your credit card.
Here's how you can avoid buying a book that you don't really want:
1) Recognize the signs
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I hope this advice has been helpful!
Or are you usually this good?
(Read A Book by Bomani Armah)
With the prison system here in Australia, he says there is a genuine drive to get rid of hard-ass prison officers, and replace them with what he calls "yes men", who will back down from any potential engagement with prisoners, because it is essentially bad publicity for the prison system, and the media loves to jump on prison violence (especially caused by the guards). In this the guards are already coming from a weak position because the inmates can actually use the media attention to their advantage
Anyways I'm getting off track, but my mate refers to himself as part of the old school system, where if you care to break the rules at all, it will be met with swift and violent retribution at the guards hands in the form of some sort of midnight visit. This is all being phased out though, as I already mentioned in the previous paragraph.
Also, the inmates definitely know the system, and know how to get around the justice system - There was a recent riot in the local prison here, where the prisoners attacked two of the guards, but even though the prisoners knew there was CC TV on them, they simply covered their faces with towels as to avoid identification. Now the guards could identify them based on mannerisms on camera (the way they walked/moved, used weapons), however it didn't go to trial because the the video was the only evidence, and a prosecution would never get a jury to convict because mannerisms would never be enough to identify the perpetrators. Kind of a long winded way of saying the prisoners know what they can get away with, very well. I asked him what would have happened if the prisoners had actually killed one of the guards, and he said well they would have got away with murder.
Scary place, he certainly earns his 90k per year. Sorry for the long winded response!
- I would be a terrible correctional officer; and
- it is certainly a whole another world where people learn to apply their obviously available intelligence and emotions first in a false way and secondly, then being able to pull the plug and turn against the "duck" with these extortions.
Anecdotally, if I was imprisoned and I started to befriend an officer, my loyalty to him would grow as well as his loyalty to me. I wouldn't be able to pull such a stunt that would potentially get him fired and mess up his life if he didn't bring me pot.
And sociopaths are less likely to be burdened with empathy/loyalty/etc.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newjack:_Guarding_Sing_Sing?w...
The author is a journalist who was refused access to Sing Sing, so he joined the prison service as a guard there for a year.
(And interestingly, the book makes prison sound a lot nicer than I would have imagined. Less rules than the residential high school I went to, anyway...)
This sounds hilarious to me, in a "you can't fight in here! This is the War Room" sense. Are female guards common in prisons for males in the US?
Did they?
From the outside, it looked more like "those institutions are too vital, so we're going to pump money in and tell them how to do things" from govt officials.
Which reminds me - the US financial institution bailout is close to break even with the exception of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (which the Dems insist on pouring more money into - they voted down liquidation early this week). GM and Chrysler aren't even close.
At least if you are only looking at the costs that have been accounted for.
It was essentially his decision to do the bailouts (despite the obvious conflicts of interest.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullying
(Rationalizing my pain.)
Goes for dogs, too :)
http://trinixy.com/28-handmade-prison-escape-tools-and-weapo...
If they truly have such powers, why are they not somewhere else other than prison?
2) The cons don't have them entirely enthralled, but as I mention in the article, severely weakened over time, and vulnerable enough to succumb to minor rules violations that the cons use as leverage against the guards - to extract major favors
3) A lot of criminals are very intelligent and if they were born in an affluent suburb in Connecticut, they would probably end up just as powerful as many businessmen/politicians. Some criminals end up working their way out of prison and end up very powerful. Look at YM/CMB as a great example of this. (Except Lil Wayne is in jail now on a gun charge because it's all tied up with his "hood" image.)
If they're not switched on and maybe a bit paranoid the guard may not realize that what they think is a conversation is actually a science experiment with them as the subject.
Working with people who can spend every waking moment figuring out how to get into your head could be frightening.
That would be "Horsedick.MPEG" from the movie Miss March. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_March
2: there are many guards and many inmates. Some inmates succeed with some guards, not all inmates with all guards.
Sociopaths aren't out to get power through material wealth, but by exploiting character flaws. They'll find someone easily influenced, kiss ass until they have solid relationship and then exploit the shit out of it.
I knew a guy once who had worked as a guard at a maximum-security prison in Kentucky. Their prisoners were this kind of guy - often brilliant. He said you literally couldn't leave a candy wrapper in their cell because they would make a knife of it (not joking, this was his very example, and he knew a guy who'd been cut with just such a knife) and try to escape.
Even knowing they couldn't escape, they just had nothing better to do with their time. And they've got a lot of time.
Historical anecdote: In the 19th century there was this German inventor and entrepeneur, named Ernst Werner von Siemens. He took part in a duel and was sentenced to a (mild form of) prison. He used the time there to make several inventions. And at the end he even asked for extending his sentence.
I am reminded of the teachers’ maxim “don’t smile before Christmas”, i.e., establish yourself as a firm disciplinarian at the beginning of the school year, and you can be more flexible once the students recognize that you aren’t a pushover.
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