If You Were In Prison, What Kind Of Job Would You Want?

[BootsLover94]

I would choose either fashion or a job where I help out the environment. Maybe both

Fashion

Environment

Laundry

Cook

Cleaning

Making Vehicle Plates

Call Center

[Jennz6]

call center, I could tell someone to help me escape

[BootsLover94]

Lol good call

[Jennz6]

Thanks

[Theodora00]

I would go Environment.

[BootsLover94]

Like planting trees, picking up garbage, growing crops, etc

[Theodora00]

Yea I like cooking but not for thousands. And laundry. No thanks.

[BootsLover94]

Lol I agree! 100%

[YesterdaysChild]

What makes you think you would have a job? If you look at prisons in other countries and how the inmates are treated in heavily overcrowded conditions, and only be allowed out of their cells for maybe 2 hours a day, if at all, you would be aghast. I saw a program where they had 160 inmates in one large cell that contained only 24 beds. Lots of inmates "on remand" can spend up to 14 years in prison before they even go to trial due to the backlog. You can bet that if they could get out and work, they would.

[DryGermanGuy]

Well, and in again other countries you could make an apprenticeship or start academic studies. You are even encouraged to do so as part of your rehabilitation. That's how we got half the recidivism rate of the United States.

[YesterdaysChild]

@DryGermanGuy Part of that is that they leave people out of prison that shouldn't be to reduce overcrowding. Also, they don't even prosecute some crimes, like theft, if the value of the stolen items is less than $950. Part of that is to reduce the clientele of heavily overcrowded prisons. I don't know what year the last prison was built.

[DryGermanGuy]

You are referring to the crime/recidivism rate, I assume? I agree with you fully, these scenarios absolutely are ridiculous. I mean as a practical joke, what if I steal a 50.000 dollar car in 950 dollar increments, do I then get to keep it? But the American justice system sucks, so of course the American penal system sucks.

[exitseven]

@yesterdayschild when David Crosby was in the slammer for drug and gun convictions he worked in the mattress factory. They told him it would prepare him for a job on the outside.

[exitseven]

@yesterdayschild There were a lot of shoe factories where i live. Most of them have closed but there was one that still made shoes. They had an arrangement with the local jail that they would train some inmates to work in the show factory. They got two guys from the jail to operate the welting machine. That is a heavy duty sewing machine that stitches the sole on to the upper. That used to be a good job in the old days before chinese imports put most of these companies out of business.
These two guys were shown how to use the welting machine and since it is not rocket science they were doing okay. Then they both went outside to have lunch and they both got high and went back in to do some more welting. One guy accidently stitched a sole onto his hand. The other guy saw it and asked to go back to his cell.

[YesterdaysChild]

@exitseven Yeah so does making license plates. 🙄

[exitseven]

I would make license plates. It would prepare me for a lucrative career on the outside.

[ChicoFromThe305]

Cook, the prison wouldn't be a 5 star restaurant I'm tellin you 😌

[ChicoFromThe305]

Would*

[LavLavLuv]

Fashion or maybe cook

[BootsLover94]

If I was in prison and working in fashion. Love to sew or knit

[Kingofkings1992]

You can’t have a job in prison. You can have a detail around the facility, but that differs a little from actual employment.

[Anonymous]

Most felons work in McDonald's or at a low paying job. They don't get to choose.

[BootsLover94]

I meant in prison

[Anonymous]

I'ma be the hoe

[BootsLover94]

Lol sexy

[purplepoppy]

Prison guard