Do you know anyone that has been (or is) in prison?

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Cerpin Taxt

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Originally posted by: eminemrh25
My cousin is in prison for the next 30 years or so...

That's some serious time -- musta been a serious crime. Could you tell us what he did?
 

ActuaryTm

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Originally posted by: Garth
That's some serious time -- musta been a serious crime. Could you tell us what he did?
Not necessarily so, unfortunately.

I was aware of a case in Florida involving a bank robbery. No gun was used or seen, but the threat of a gun was somehow "perceived" by one of the tellers.

The sentence was 35 years.
 

hemiram

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Yeah, quite a few actually. Weird for someone who's never been arrested.

One guy was in for manslaughter for 13 years. A barfight went bad, the other guy fell and hit his head on the rail along the bottom of the bar, and died of a bleed in his brain.

Another guy hit a woman the night before her wedding (Great timing?) The accident would have happened anyway, she just ran in front of him, but he smelled of beer ("Just ONE occifer, I SWEAR!") and the test came back at .12 (A really big beer?), and then the dope doesn't take a plea bargain, and spends 10 years in prison.

Then there was my neightbor, who was loaded and going home from a night out partying. He runs over some poor newly arrived to the US guy riding his bike home from his job as a cook in a chinese restaurant, and drags him about 500', gets out, pulls him loose, and then drives off. There were several witnesses, and the cops were looking for him by dawn. He hid at his aunt's place, but the cops figured that out, and he went away for 5 years.

Then there's a dope I used to live across the street from, who was hired by a friend of mine, his cousin, to be his bookeeper for his contracting business. He was a CPA and my friend trusted him. Well, he tells my friend that he got a "fantastic" job offer in Chicago or Mineapolis, and quits and leaves town, really quickly, after 3+ years of working for him. One morning my friend is interviewing replacements, and the IRS swoops in, and tells him he owes at least 300K(Ended up about 500K all together) worth of income tax! His cousin had intercepted the letters from the IRS warning that he hadn't paid his taxes for 3 years! When it was all said and done, my friend had to sell everything, put a mortgage on his house, borrow money from his brothers and give a house he built to the IRS to get it all paid off. Oh, and just to show you what kind of guy the cousin is, my friend has been in a wheelchair for 30 years after being paralyzed in a car wreck! Then the FBI finds out he's involved with a kiddie porn site, but the only real evidence of his involvment was a few checks, and the FBI couldn't get his partner to rat him out. He's got about 3 years to go..and he hid the money someplace and he's still got part of it left.

Then the biggest idiot. I went to grade and HS with this genius. He decides to kill his old man and stepmom for their insurance money, and hires two morons he works with to do it for 1000 bucks each. Well, it all goes wrong, and not only don't they kill the targets, one of them gets shot by the dad, and both squeal like little piggies when the cops start asking questions. He ends up taking a deal for 15 years. He's got about 5 to go.
 

OrganizedChaos

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1 out of every 142 americans is currently in jail.
1 out of every 32 is currently under correctional supervision.

how could anoyone not know somebody in the correctional system.
 

tweakmm

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Originally posted by: OrganizedChaos
1 out of every 142 americans is currently in jail.
1 out of every 32 is currently under correctional supervision.

how could anoyone not know somebody in the correctional system.
Not everyone is black.
 

LiquidImpulse

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Originally posted by: Garth
Originally posted by: eminemrh25
My cousin is in prison for the next 30 years or so...

That's some serious time -- musta been a serious crime. Could you tell us what he did?


im also eager to know what happened. I'm all ears :).
 

LiquidImpulse

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Originally posted by: LoKe
My father was caught with a duffelbag full of guns. Sufficient to say; he's no longer allowed in Ontario.


LoKe, how did that happen?why was your dad carrying the guns in the first place?was it just a coincidence?
 

D1gger

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One of my employees was in prison for eight years for manslaughter. One of nicest guys you would want to meet, but I guess he has a temper.
 

eminemrh25

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Originally posted by: LiquidImpulse
Originally posted by: Garth
Originally posted by: eminemrh25
My cousin is in prison for the next 30 years or so...

That's some serious time -- musta been a serious crime. Could you tell us what he did?


im also eager to know what happened. I'm all ears :).

Well, my cousin was going to jail for 6 months for Breaking and Entering, then he and his friend decided to get high and drunk. They were driving around and they picked up a hooker. They promised her weed and stuff.

My cousin had finished all the drugs before they even picked her up, so instead of paying her, he stabed her 98 times while his friend went through her clothes to look for some cash..

This happened in a park (Where they raped and murdered her..) and the next day someone found her all stabbed up naked in the woods while walking..

He stashed the bloody clothes and knife, then he was on his way to mexico, in the back of one of his friends pickups. I guess someone tipped the cops off (he was in a gang, so someone who probably was in a different one) , and they caught him..

He was charged with First Degree Murder, they dropped the Rape charge tho, only because of a plea bargin.. When he gets out, he won't have to become a registered sex offender..

I heard he got into big fight in prison a year or two ago (He got locked up 3-4 years ago) and he had a blood-clot in his brain, but they got it out..

He might have more time, I know 35years was the minimum..
 

iluvtruenos

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Originally posted by: MX2times
Originally posted by: Schadenfreude
My ex-roommate. Plus everyone else on that godforsaken block - it was so bad we knew the police officers by name.

Sounds like you took the right path out of there my friend;)

What if he's posting from Cell Block A?
 
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Originally posted by: LiquidImpulse
Originally posted by: LoKe
My father was caught with a duffelbag full of guns. Sufficient to say; he's no longer allowed in Ontario.


LoKe, how did that happen?why was your dad carrying the guns in the first place?was it just a coincidence?

Not sure of the details, I was too young to know what was going on. He was carying it around, bringing them somewhere. It wasn't any coincidence, he was a criminal. I'm glad he was caught and I'm not sure how long he spent in prison. I haven't seen him in 17 years and I could care less.