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Help me find this short story that I read in 8th grade 20 years ago. It's about a prisoner who finds the entrance to a tunnel in his jail cell and crawls all the way down... [more inside]
posted by yawper
on Nov 1, 2009 -
4 answers
Prison party fashion...without the prison? [more inside]
posted by tejolote
on Sep 29, 2009 -
24 answers
Dear AskMe, Should I be concerned about writing to someone in prison that knows about previous illegal activities I've participated in? [more inside]
posted by anonymous
on Aug 19, 2009 -
13 answers
Anyone recognize this short story about a journalist who wants to learn what it's like to be on Death Row? It's NOT by Roald Dahl. [more inside]
posted by web-goddess
on Jul 19, 2009 -
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Is there a specific name for the little door-within-a-door often seen on prison cells that are used to pass food through?
posted by jontyjago
on Jun 18, 2009 -
12 answers
Budget advice for people just released from a California state prison. [more inside]
posted by small_ruminant
on May 26, 2009 -
7 answers
Prison gang reading lists and what's on them. Does anyone out there know a concise answer? [more inside]
posted by monkishies
on May 14, 2009 -
17 answers
How do I send books or magazines to someone in jail? [more inside]
posted by electroboy
on Apr 22, 2009 -
6 answers
How do I donate a bunch of books to a prison? Bonus for Washington state based resources. [more inside]
posted by Jawn
on Apr 9, 2009 -
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NameThatBookFilter: Autobiography by a former criminal/hard timer that later became an author? [more inside]
posted by mrhaydel
on Apr 2, 2009 -
16 answers
Help me identify an old record album featuring prison inmates translating bible stories into "jive." [more inside]
posted by werkzeuger
on Mar 25, 2009 -
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A friend of mine was recently sent to Moriah Shock Correctional Facility in NY. I want to send him some mail. What should I send him along with the letter? With this kind of incarceration it doesn't seem like a book is appropriate since I'm not sure he'd have time to read.
posted by josher71
on Mar 24, 2009 -
7 answers
Can anyone point me to information on exercising with extremely limited resources? [more inside]
posted by malusmoriendumest
on Mar 22, 2009 -
14 answers
Help me think of prison-themed presents for a Down by Law screening party. [more inside]
posted by lunalaguna
on Feb 23, 2009 -
15 answers
Hypothetical child custody question about when the only living parent goes to jail. How hard is it for the convicted parent to regain custody of their child upon their release? [more inside]
posted by np312
on Feb 12, 2009 -
11 answers
I want to build a fake prison cell set that's mobile. What do I do? [more inside]
posted by history is a weapon
on Dec 1, 2008 -
8 answers
What can someone expect when they go to jail for five days for a DUI? [more inside]
posted by nomad73
on Oct 28, 2008 -
10 answers
For a project on prisons, I want to film in an abandoned prison. Where can I find abandoned prisons in a short drive from New York City? Short drive means ideally within two hours to keep costs down, but if there's something great further away, let me know. [more inside]
posted by history is a weapon
on Oct 11, 2008 -
9 answers
How can I find out if someone I used to know is in prison? [more inside]
posted by Sully
on Oct 7, 2008 -
7 answers
What career paths are available for someone in their 60's who has spent much of his life in and out of prison?
(the long, not too gory details inside) [more inside]
posted by verevi
on Aug 21, 2008 -
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Any idea where to find a black-and-white horizontally-striped t-shirts reminiscent of old style prison outfits--like what Elvis had in Jailhouse Rock? I've found whole costumes (jumpers, etc.) but I just need t-shirts.
posted by sourwookie
on Jun 19, 2008 -
8 answers
Why haven't (or to what extent have) prisons embraced video technology? [more inside]
posted by greytape
on May 21, 2008 -
13 answers
Can you identify a short story I read in grade school? [more inside]
posted by timsteil
on Apr 22, 2008 -
4 answers
How to find a company's Federal Tax ID # (in a hurry!) [more inside]
posted by lattiboy
on Apr 15, 2008 -
6 answers
[Prison Filter] Do female prisoners get conjugal visits? [more inside]
posted by gnash
on Feb 18, 2008 -
5 answers
What would a person have to do in order to get a one year jail sentence in the California penal system. [more inside]
posted by SECONDHANDSMOTE
on Feb 15, 2008 -
18 answers
Help me find literature written about life in prisons, work camps, concentration camps etc. [more inside]
posted by Telf
on Feb 7, 2008 -
39 answers
Has anyone ever escaped from jail or prison using this novel method, either in fiction or in real life? [more inside]
posted by Tube
on Jan 30, 2008 -
6 answers
can a paranoid schizophrenic be put in prison for having an attack in a bank and tearing up the place? No one was injured, but I did destroy many tables, chairs and television sets before I was detained. I was having both auditory and visual hallucinations.
posted by DillonArt
on Jan 23, 2008 -
24 answers
According to these pages on the U.S. Bureau of Justice site, imprisonment for public order offenses suddenly fell by a third in 2002. Why?
posted by painquale
on Jan 12, 2008 -
11 answers
I have heard that prisoners will use a trick involving sticking a bit of metal in electrical outlets to get a spark in a rather Macgyver-esque process of lighting a cigarette. Is this more urban legend than reality. [more inside]
posted by gbinal
on Dec 26, 2007 -
14 answers
Would getting a person to exercise before stabbing them cause them to die faster? [more inside]
posted by Bookhouse
on Dec 16, 2007 -
23 answers
I'm looking for the title and/or author of a story I read years ago. It was about, or had in it, a description of a terrible kind of prison, a vast multilayered cylinder carved inside a mountain, that would rotate slowly around its course from the efforts of the prisoners inside. The only way to free those inside was, according to the story, to keep adding new prisoners to the vacated cells to keep pulling the thing along. [more inside]
posted by aeschenkarnos
on Dec 11, 2007 -
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Approximately how many people are in prison and/or dead (or not) because of the drug war? [more inside]
posted by Riki tiki
on Oct 29, 2007 -
5 answers
what fun, performance-related activities would you teach in a high-security prison? [more inside]
posted by twistofrhyme
on Oct 22, 2007 -
12 answers
Where can I find people who have some relationship to convict-leasing in the southern United States? Are there historical societies (African American or otherwise) that can direct me to older people who can talk about what it was like? Where else can I look? [more inside]
posted by history is a weapon
on Sep 18, 2007 -
4 answers
How much money could be saved if California executed all the prisoners on death row tomorrow? What about the country? [more inside]
posted by sipher
on Jul 18, 2007 -
13 answers
Has anyone ever done time in prison for harassing a whale? [more inside]
posted by jason's_planet
on Jul 10, 2007 -
10 answers
I'm looking for additional information about the author Jack Black [more inside]
posted by The Castle
on May 30, 2007 -
4 answers
Many years ago I witnessed a murder and was the victim of attempted murder. The murderer was caught, and sentenced to 40 years-to-life. His first parole hearing is scheduled for 2008. I need to know what to expect. [more inside]
posted by anonymous
on May 2, 2007 -
13 answers
Does anyone know the title of old Italian film - Partly set in a Venetian Jail? [more inside]
posted by Dub
on Feb 8, 2007 -
7 answers
How to make life in a fish bowl tolerable [more inside]
posted by anonymous
on Jan 20, 2007 -
33 answers
Do private prisons like the one depicted in the movie Oldboy actually exist? [more inside]
posted by Ndwright
on Nov 26, 2006 -
12 answers
I have a friend who has served time for several DUI's, and is currently on parole. He is worried about failing a drug test, and being sent back to the slammer to complete his sentence. Are there any MeFis out there that have been on parole, failed a test for marijuana, and not been sent back to jail? [more inside]
posted by lester
on Jul 7, 2006 -
11 answers
Is there a specific socio-/psychological term for women who do this? Does it ever happen with the genders reversed?
posted by kittyprecious
on Jun 28, 2006 -
7 answers
This music video [YouTube link] is...um...hard to describe. It's also entirely in Japanese, and my wife, friends and I have all been wondering for more than two years just who these people are, and just what, exactly, they're singing about. [more inside]
posted by davejay
on Apr 14, 2006 -
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I remember hearing once that someone in the audience at Johhny Cash's Folsom Prison performance - as a prisoner - was inspired by it to go on to a successful career as a singer/songwriter. Is this apocryphal? If not, who was it? Someone mentioned to me Waylon Jennings, but I don't think it's him. Google is inconclusive.
posted by oxala
on Jan 22, 2006 -
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Just saw Walk the Line, which opens with Johnny Cash's performance at Folsom Prison, and I was wondering: what other bands (of any genre) have also played prisons and for what reason? I guess mental institutions count, but only if they're for the criminally insane ;-)
posted by ibeji
on Nov 19, 2005 -
22 answers
I'm looking for a slang word/phrase used to describe a false bar in a prison cell. The idea is that when a prison was built/expanded by inmate labor, workers would loosen one bar before it'd set too solidly in cement to make a potential escape hatch. What would inmates call this? [more inside]
posted by soviet sleepover
on Oct 18, 2005 -
6 answers
Name 5 US Celebrities to have gone to jail that aren't boxers or rap stars. [more inside]
posted by BigCalm
on Jun 14, 2005 -
51 answers