Life: Inside - Part 1

In depth interviews with older convicts serving time behind the walls of Pelican Bay State Prison. For more videos from around California's north coast visit times-standard.com.

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[Joshua4599]

what I hate about the justice system is when a felon gets out of prison. How are they supposed to succeed. Everytime they look for a job people say no 9 times out of 10. So of course they are going to go back to robbing and stealing. We need a way that felons can redeem themselves and even get the felony removed from their criminal records. I am in now way speaking about murder or any other capital crimes.

[starryian007]

5 years for stealing from a shop! What is wrong with American justice!!!

A man loses 5 years of his life for shoplifting!............That's plain wrong!

I suspect that he is a poor man with limited ability for legal representation. I'll guarentee that some rich person - such as Winona Rider (who was also convicted of shoplifting) didnt get 5 years!!!

[MarkBTW]

Damn, that sounds pretty sweet. Sounds like my day, I'm in high school, only they don't have to do school work.

[mryjn420090]

3:00 Dave Chapelle?

[kosm001]

@MaximusRelaximus I have to agree with you in this case.

[MaximusRelaximus]

@kosm001 I agree for youthful mistakes, and the system makes allowances for those situations. But the crimes of the people in this video hardly fall under that category--"woops, I didn't mean to brutally strangle that girl to death...twice," or, "yes, I shot a killed a human being while robbing him for $20, but hey, boys will be boys."

I don't think so. Their victims will never get a second chance, and neither should they.

[kosm001]

Suppose someone was stupid and did something illegal when they were younger, should they always have a criminal record on their backs because of their stupidity? We're not perfect, we're human beings, and make mistakes. Some are big, some are small. What I don't agree with is criminal records. You go to prison, you do your time, then you should be out a free man.With criminal records, you aren't free at all. So basically, once you're in the prison, you never go outside.

[MaximusRelaximus]

@kosm001 That's not the "whole point" of it. I don't believe it's even the primary point of it. The primary point is justice, or punishment. If the prisoner can be "rehabilitated" as well, then that's great, and there are programs designed to try to achieve that, but it is secondary, for better or worse. I do agree that the prison system is corrupt, but I also think that punishment should be the primary reason for imprisonment.

[starryian007]

@MaximusRelaximus Good point Maximus. I have always raised an eyebrow where I hear the term 'Correctional Facility'Both you and I know that's total bullcrap. For too many the term 'correctional' is the absolute last thing they learn.

I think Morgan Freeman said it all in the Shawshank Redemption "Rehabilitated? it's just a bullshit word, a politicians word, invented so that young fellas like yourself can wear a shiny suit and have a job.Just fill out your form sonny and stop wasting my time"

[MaximusRelaximus]

@starryian007 And I suspect there's a lot more to the story than a simple shoplifiting conviction. In fact, I'm sure of it. I'll bet any amount of money he has a long history of priors, and several other aggravating circumstances were involved.

[moondog203]

What's with all the gallows?

[BiGMANJOE32]

Chuckie shut up