What are the Pro's and Con's of spending 10 Years in state prison?

Question

with a chance to be released after serving 85% of your sentence

Answer 1

Free food and free medically care, free shelter, free exercise equiptment, and free entertainment.

Cons everything else

Answer 2

Ten years is a long time.  You go in a young man and come out a lot older.  Plus, with technology changing so rapidly, you would be completely disoriented to the modern world.  Lose your family ties, etc.

Don't think for a second that prison can be fun.  

Answer 3

msnbc would make prison not seem so bad, they support big government(Obama) control over our lives.

Answer 4

There is no such thing as a 'PRO' to spending time in a Penitentiary.

Prison is the Ultimate Control situation.  Don't be fooled by what you see on TV, even if it is MSNBC.  They are only going to show you what the censors allow them to - meaning that what you saw on the show was edited for content.  What you didn't see was the Separatist mentality of being "required" to belong to a group, whether it is a clique, a gang, or an alleged 'self help' organization which is usually just a front for some special treatment seeking group.  Bottom line, as you said yourself, there is only the CHANCE that you will be released after 85% time served.  The truth is, in 81/2 years YOU WILL get into some kind of trouble, whether it is for having to fight to prove yourself, or because some A** *ole guard decided to plant something in your cell during a shake down.  You will get into some kind of trouble, you will be likely to lose good time, you could be required to serve the full ten years and then, when you are released, it will be with Post Supervision (Parole).  Which is another control situation.  You WILL NOT have a life to call your own for a minimum of 10 years, possibly 15 years or longer, depending on the type of felony convicted of and the specific state convicted in.

Okay, I have to add some to this.

Dave, you are full of it.  There is nothing free in prison.  Your Free Food, cannot in the wildest stretch of an imagination be called food.  It is tasteless, sapped of all nutrition from being overcooked, under seasoned, or even so over seasoned that it causes gastro distress ranging from indigestion to peptic ulcers.  Which brings me to the FREE MEDICAL.  How would you like to have your annual physical provided by a PODIATRIST, or worse yet, a Veterinary (I'm not sure if that is spelled correctly, but I don't really care, you get the drift).  I have actually seen both types of "medical professionals' in the pen.  And FREE TV is a myth too.  Your penitentiary may offer basic cable service but guess what, it's paid for by the Inmate's Funds.  Money that you put in from disciplinary fines, deductions from pay, mandatory savings deductions from money sent to you by family members, etc.  And you are required to buy your own tv.  Which will be a cheap brand they buy for $185. but will sell to you for  $235.  And you don't get to have your personal computer, your i-pod, your mp3, your cell phone, or anything else of the sort.  Which now brings me to what Kate had to say.

Kate was absolutely correct.  For ten years you will sit on your dead B hind dreaming about the future in the terms that you last saw of it.  When you are released after 10 years you will have to teach yourself to drive again.  I personally took 5 weeks to build up the nerve to get behind the wheel again.  Not because of any tech. advances, but because I had been out of society long enough that I had to get used to the number of people on the roads.  Then I had to drive for another 5 weeks before I felt I was ready to go for my test.  I had convinced myself that I would fail -- I didn,t.  I actually aced the written and only made two minor mistakes on the driving.  But, as far as the technology.  When I went in, there were no PCs, no CDs, no MP3s, no Cell Phones and no I-Pods.  I've been out 2 years and I still don't like cell phones, I haven't had an I-pod or an MP3, and don't want either.  I'm still getting used to the idea of Debit Cards instead of checks.  And I sometimes feel like a naive fool on the internet because everything I do seems to comeback as a scam against me.  So believe me when I say, you don't want to lose 10 days, much less 10 years.

Answer 5

Pros:  It isn't life

cons.  it is ten years of life in which you are excluded from everything else and upon release you are thrust into a life where you are a pariah and are not trusted by anyone.  You also get to spend those years surrounded by criminals.

Answer 6

If you are g*y, the pros are obvious.

If not, there are none because you can do all that you see on t.v. at home.

The cons are numerous, no s*x being at the top of the list, except for that g*y s*x.

Answer 7

I SPENT 18.5 YEARS in a max sec prison its really not that bad but let me tell you one thing they have one of the best health care plans in the world (free)and you can get a free edg while in prison (i have a ba in chemical science and 2 credits in crime law you have no bills and no worries about anything they catter to you and you get paid so much per month by the state they feed (personally eat off the cantein) you give you free uniforms to wear and plus they wash them for you you get free cable tv ,heat in the winter and ac in the summer ,and plenty of conversation and card games,