About Prison Conditions (long)

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Just curious - has anyone here had a friend or relative they liked wind up in jail?

Ive worked with people I grew to like who spent 2-20 years in jail.

I also worked with a convicted pedophile I would have rather killed then work with him.

[jennielynn1970]

I've had friends and relatives who have ended up in jail. Some in county prisons, one, who was a boyfriend at one point (before the prison term) that I know of who was in federal. I actually found out about him being in prison by Googling his name. He had a tendency to go off the map for long periods of time, and it must have been 2002 or 2003 when it had been too long that I hadn't heard from him.

Turns out he somehow got into a counterfeiting operation, and had gotten caught with a gun that had the serial number filed off (this was in Philadeplia). I was absolutely shocked. This was a guy I had known for about 8 years at that point, and I never, ever thought he'd be involved in something like that. When we met we both did billing and collections for doctors and anesthesia. Where counterfeiting came into that, and illegal guns, I have no clue.

He ended up in federal prison, due to the illegal handgun (not the money), and I really don't know what happened to him in there, but I can imagine. He was tall, thin, not a very "masculine" guy, if you get my drift.

When I did confront him about the prison term, and all that had gone on, he did talk to me, and vowed he would never go back to federal prison. He was out on appeal.

The last time we talked he told me that the appeal was going well and everything should be fine. That was September of 2004. He killed himself a week later. I found out from his federally appointed attorney that he lost the appeal and was going to be going back to federal prison. They found him hanging from a tree the morning he was supposed to go back.

For him to do that, it still doesn't fit with the guy I knew. Just like what he did. That wasn't the guy I knew, loved and dated.