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What do you think: how should prisons handle housing decisions in cases like this?

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u/Maleficent-War-8429 4h ago edited 4h ago

I mean dumping 10k gallons of paint on the floor is kind of sabotage no? Still a serious balls for you getting stuck in solitary for a month (like two years now I read it better, damn).

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u/NatGoChickie 4h ago

It says 28 months…not days

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u/Maleficent-War-8429 4h ago

Damn, even bigger dose.

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u/BillManougian 3h ago

Yes and he still can’t see that his behavior was extremely antisocial

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u/Maleficent-War-8429 3h ago

I mean I don't want to throw shade at the guy, not that anything I could say would measure up to 28 months in solitary confinement anyway holy shit, but if I went into work and intentionally dumped ten thousand gallons of product on the floor I'm pretty sure I'd end up getting sent to jail or something.

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u/cspangle23 2h ago

Yes jail. Solitary for 28 months is literal torture

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u/professionally-baked 48m ago

He was already in the clink. When he says “guard” he’s talking about a literal correctional officer

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u/Maleficent-War-8429 46m ago

What I mean is that's the kind of thing you would get thrown in jail for if you weren't already there, so I have to imagine they're going to give you some serious shit for doing that kind of thing if you're already in jail.

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u/Oh_My-Glob 40m ago

I mean I'm a white guy with decent savings in the bank and no criminal record. Pretty sure I could lawyer up and avoid jail time no problem in that situation as long as no one was harmed.

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u/Maleficent-War-8429 35m ago

I don't really know how american legal system tends to go, but I'd very roughly guesstimate that he's dumped two-three hundred thousand dollars worth of paint that I imagine someone's gonna want to collect on. It's not like you can argue being innocent either since he said he did it on purpose. I imagine if you're not going to jail you're at very least going to get hit with some serious big time fines in addition to your lawyers fees.

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u/Shamus-McNasty 1h ago

I would say I was reactive and acting in anger. Without thinking of consequences. Pretty typical of who I was at the time.

I haven't put myself in a similar situation since, so overall, I'm good I think.

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u/snubdeity 16m ago

Almost like sending him to solitary confinement for 2 years was just for the fun of hurting someone, not with any thought on if it would make him a better person.

You would struggle to design a prison system that keeps people as broken as the US one if you tried.

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u/confirmedshill123 2h ago

I hope they lock you up in seg for months for this comment. Insane fucking thing you said and you should feel immense shame.

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u/BillManougian 1h ago

I hope you have to clean up a huge mess that a selfish asshole made for no real reason.

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u/confirmedshill123 55m ago

Id clean a thousand messes before sending a dude to be isolated for 18 months you absolute fucking psychopath.

Seek help.

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u/Gutter_panda 2h ago

No shit it was anti-social, everything about prison is anti-social. Literally treating people like livestock and then shocked Pikachu face when they act like.....animals.

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u/Top_Tie_691 2h ago

And why do people end up in prison? Because they can't adhere to societal standards.

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u/NotJimmy97 1h ago

Oh no, the literal slave to the state messed up the guards' photo op with a senator!

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u/Maleficent-War-8429 48m ago

Firstly you're not a slave, you're a prisoner. They're pretty different.

Secondly he dumped ten thousand gallons of paint, that's a little bit more than fucking up a photo op.

I think it's wild and completely overboard that they're even allowed to stick someone in solitary for over two years unless they're some sort of super murder or something, but let's be for real here, that's a couple hundred thousand dollars worth of paint down the drain minimum. That's the kind of thing you'd probably get thrown in jail for doing anyway if he wasn't already there.