I've seen some random and cruel stuff, but...

[NoOne=NBA=]

If you honestly didn't know my position, and I have my doubts, it was because you have a serious problem listening.  If you want to keep a wife for any length of time I suggest working on that.

I'm at 17 years, and counting (on my first, and only)--You? 

[shmokes]

Let her read my post and watch the knowing grin that creeps over her face.  I bet she knows exactly what I'm talking about.

Me, married three years, but to have been married 17 years I'd have to have got married when I was 9 or 10 years old.

[ChadTower]

Me, married three years, but to have been married 17 years I'd have to have got married when I was 9 or 10 years old.

What people are saying about shmokes:

"How many children need to be molested by repeat sex offenders before you're satisfied...?"

- Dartful Dodger

[nullb0y]

haha long post yay

[DrewKaree]

I AM in favor of high-rise prisons, as the idiots who seem to design them in my area can't come up with anything that doesn't swallow up a thousand acres on which is planted, at best, a 3 story building.? 2 stories if it's a large facility.? Go underground as well.? Might as well save on heating and cooling bills and use the earth to save us money there.

Can't be done, Drew.  It's not possible to evacuate a 9 story prison in the case of a fire or similar emergency.  Not with any type of order or without rioting.  It's ironic, really, that we have to protect the prisoners from themselves, but there we are.

Interestingly enough, since this topic was dredged up elsewhere and I was re-reading through here (some comedy gold!), I've since seen a few of the shows on Discovery or History channel or one of those learny-type shows.  Turns out, there's a prison that looked to be about 3 stories high that has inmates often commit sooey-side by jumping off the railing and doing a swan dive onto the konk-rete below.

Seems pretty easy to fix.  Throw some more bars up there or some fencing like they've got across the bridges around my city so some nutjob doesn't jump down into traffic on the freeway.

There's GOT to be some way to evacuate 'em.  I refuse to believe that's the reasoning behind it.  They build HOSPITALS taller than that, fer cryin' out loud, and there's people confined to beds in there who couldn't get out without someone else's help, whose family would sue the friggen pants off the hospital if they died due to circumstances like that, so I don't buy that line of reasoning as to why we can't make high-rise prisons.

[More Cowbell]

Eff 'em. They stabbed their freedom.

[shmokes]

I imagine that people just don't want to be able to see a prison from 10 or 15 miles away.  A view of the prison isn't going to help property values.

[MYX]

I like this one, we should be able to fit just all of them in here. mmmm, death row folks get the top floors. So, if the building does in fact catch on fire...Well you get the idea.

[DrewKaree]

I imagine that people just don't want to be able to see a prison from 10 or 15 miles away.  A view of the prison isn't going to help property values.

Dig it underground.  That way, if someone tries to escape by tunneling out, they'll end up in China

[ChadTower]

There is a max security prison about 15 miles from my house.  It's hard to see, even from the main road that passes by it, but it can't be more than 3-4 floors max.  The security around there is no joke.  Stopping your car without obvious reason on that road (which is also Federal Rt 1A) ends up with armed guards all over you in short order.  God forbid your car break down there, people have been known to get quite a scare by the way security descends on them from the woods.

[fredster]

I think all the prisoners in the US should all be moved to UT.  Make it like NYC in "escape from new york".

Shmokes is right. You can't get all Lynch mobbie on people.  Look at the outcry at the Duke Lecross team members.

There were letters written from the faculty, the naacp, etc all of that crap.

Looks like they were innocent.  We can't just kill people that shouldn't be alive.

[ChadTower]

The British sent all their prisoners away for a while.  That's how we got Australia.

[jbox]

Oi! You better watch it mate!

[ChadTower]