With the people I know who been in jail, whether it was for a month or 2 or 6 or 9 in county, or a year or 2 in Rikers, you see it face to face. its real. that's real time. thats 2 years you dont see your homie for. I know yall here, at least some of yall, got people in jail or prison, or have in the past.
Anyways,
With all the "shouldna done it if you didnt wanna go to jail" and "fuck them they get to watch BET up in there and get college degrees" sentiments here and other places, I wonder if anyone can see the flipside for a minute.
For someone who got wrongly sent in, thats somethin you gotta be mad about no doubt, nuff sed.
but what about the people there, who did do somethin to get there, maybe robbed someone, maybe killed someone accidentally, maybe on purpose. Oh, they got their sentence. and they did their crime. But like most of yall know, its easy to get in trouble. Its easy especially in this world to let a situation get outta hand, to make a mistake, to make the wrong move and say the wrong thing, to let one thing lead to another and all of a sudden youre really fucked.
Imagine if you can, for a second, forget what people did to get in there, forget why they there, forget all that. forget everything and just try and imagine in your mind getting picked up and thrown in jail til you can get bailed.
Imagine you cant get bailed.
You sleep in jail, go to court. go to hearings, court date after court date, court to jail, court to jail, court to jail.
Then imagine you get to sentencing and you get 25 to L.
Back to jail. For 25 years this time. trapped. locked up.
How would it feel
To enter that cell on that first day
And know, that not in a month, not in a year, not in 10 years, but in 25 years, you are gonna be seeing this same cell. day after day after soul crushing day.
I aint saying for you to feel bad for people in there
Im saying, when I sit here, and think about cats I know, people I heard about, shit I read in the paper, how its so easy to just sit back and watch it all go down..
But how would I feel to know that the next 2 and a half decades of my life, at least, I will be in this place.
I go buckwild if I even stay up in my house for a few days without leaving.
When you pass over it quick with your mind, its like shit, thats a long time. that sucks.
But when you stop for a second and really get into it, really think about it deep, really fuckin feel it, putting yourself there, how does it feel to look at that sentence? how do you feel when you think about what you wanted to do, the things you wanted to get done, the people around you? how does it feel to you?
This aint a thread to talk about whether you think jails fucked up or not or whether people should be there or what crimes they should be there for and blablabla. If you wanna debate that shit go make another thread.
This one is just for anyone who ever stopped to really think about it, and their head spinned just tryina begin to think how it would be if that was them, just tryina imagine, how long that is. To someone who aint even 20 years old yet, thats a long time.
You hear about this shit so much that you get numb to it, another sentence in the news, whatever. you watch COPS and Most dangerous Police Chases where you know running from a officer is a felony, all that shit, on top of whatever the get charged with that they were running from them for in the first place. You see them at the moment they surrender, like , damn, he got nabbed. But imagine if it was you on that TV screen, how would it feel at that very second to know that those are the last minutes of freedom you will probably see in a long time.
when you take it personal and put yourself in that place, shit suddenly looks different. You see someones sentence as you read the police page, just a number.....but what if that was YOUR number?
All i really wanna know is can anyone here put themself in that place...and from that place...how does it feel? I dont think im the only one who ever looked at prison sentences and just had a small aneurysm when it hit me for real, how long that really is to be in such a place.
Anyways,
With all the "shouldna done it if you didnt wanna go to jail" and "fuck them they get to watch BET up in there and get college degrees" sentiments here and other places, I wonder if anyone can see the flipside for a minute.
For someone who got wrongly sent in, thats somethin you gotta be mad about no doubt, nuff sed.
but what about the people there, who did do somethin to get there, maybe robbed someone, maybe killed someone accidentally, maybe on purpose. Oh, they got their sentence. and they did their crime. But like most of yall know, its easy to get in trouble. Its easy especially in this world to let a situation get outta hand, to make a mistake, to make the wrong move and say the wrong thing, to let one thing lead to another and all of a sudden youre really fucked.
Imagine if you can, for a second, forget what people did to get in there, forget why they there, forget all that. forget everything and just try and imagine in your mind getting picked up and thrown in jail til you can get bailed.
Imagine you cant get bailed.
You sleep in jail, go to court. go to hearings, court date after court date, court to jail, court to jail, court to jail.
Then imagine you get to sentencing and you get 25 to L.
Back to jail. For 25 years this time. trapped. locked up.
How would it feel
To enter that cell on that first day
And know, that not in a month, not in a year, not in 10 years, but in 25 years, you are gonna be seeing this same cell. day after day after soul crushing day.
I aint saying for you to feel bad for people in there
Im saying, when I sit here, and think about cats I know, people I heard about, shit I read in the paper, how its so easy to just sit back and watch it all go down..
But how would I feel to know that the next 2 and a half decades of my life, at least, I will be in this place.
I go buckwild if I even stay up in my house for a few days without leaving.
When you pass over it quick with your mind, its like shit, thats a long time. that sucks.
But when you stop for a second and really get into it, really think about it deep, really fuckin feel it, putting yourself there, how does it feel to look at that sentence? how do you feel when you think about what you wanted to do, the things you wanted to get done, the people around you? how does it feel to you?
This aint a thread to talk about whether you think jails fucked up or not or whether people should be there or what crimes they should be there for and blablabla. If you wanna debate that shit go make another thread.
This one is just for anyone who ever stopped to really think about it, and their head spinned just tryina begin to think how it would be if that was them, just tryina imagine, how long that is. To someone who aint even 20 years old yet, thats a long time.
You hear about this shit so much that you get numb to it, another sentence in the news, whatever. you watch COPS and Most dangerous Police Chases where you know running from a officer is a felony, all that shit, on top of whatever the get charged with that they were running from them for in the first place. You see them at the moment they surrender, like , damn, he got nabbed. But imagine if it was you on that TV screen, how would it feel at that very second to know that those are the last minutes of freedom you will probably see in a long time.
when you take it personal and put yourself in that place, shit suddenly looks different. You see someones sentence as you read the police page, just a number.....but what if that was YOUR number?
All i really wanna know is can anyone here put themself in that place...and from that place...how does it feel? I dont think im the only one who ever looked at prison sentences and just had a small aneurysm when it hit me for real, how long that really is to be in such a place.
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