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An open discussion about the troubled parent industry

Bump away FKA, great topic. It's theraputic talking about it.

Ah yea, Dante was a down to earth person, good people in the real sense. After the program say around 83, he and his girlfriend used to come over to my place in Sarasota to boot up, it was the first time they ever did it. He had one heck of a sexy girlfriend, I sure remember that, neat little ankle tatt of a peace sign.

Dan Gooden is now living on the west coast and loving it.

Do you have Front Page? It is a very easy program to build your own website.
Let me know if you don't have it, I can get you a "cough cough" licensed version to use:) After you build it, you'll have to host it. There are plenty of places to go for it. I'll send you some links.
L8tr ::kiss::

All my love to you girl ::kiss::

Ramprato thanks much for the thoughts, yea it's been a long hard life. Most def, straight and the lifestyle took me "staright" to prison. After 7th stepping, I wanted to date, they found out, wanted to put me back on a refresher, I said no way and my family said ok, out of the house and give us the car back. I did, and lived on the streets of Sarasota for many months stealing doing everything I could at 16 to stay alive. Eventually it all caught up to me at age 18 and I did my first bit of time in prison-2 years, then got out, got no help while being inside of prison, and was even more fucked up, 6 months later got arrested again and got a 9 year sentence. Well I finally figured out that I had control of my life and took it when I got out the 2nd time. Of course much credit goes to my wife for helping me see the loving fun side of life, plus too a little bone now and then never hurts me either :smokin:  I just don't go to extremes anymore. That ole addictive personnality sucks.
Mark

Been there done that, as stated before BOTH Straight and Prison, but I did not WORK there, and I feel bad for the folks who do work for the corrections system. My buddy up in Ocala, works as a CO and he brings home 450.00 a week, while I was on unemployment for 3 months last year I was making 495.00 per week sitting at home playing with my children. Now don't you think that you putting your life on the line on a daily basis for that little pay is ridiculous. He thought so.Yea your right I was able to smoke and go to the commissary, have visit's, I even got clothes and new tennis shoes from home once every 6 months. Maybe in the prison you work at the girls don't have to fight for the smokes they buy, or the candy they purchase or the new shoes that were sent from home, maybe they didn't have to chase other nationalities around with mop ringers and homemade knives so they can keep their perssonal items, maybe they did'nt have to, but I did and it was no picnic. Take a look at how the races are divided in your facility, it's NOT this lovely diverse meeting of the minds. Did you ever see a guy get stabbed in the eye with a fork because he took a piece of bread off another guys plate? Did you ever see a riot take place because one nationality wanted to watch a basketball game and the other wanted to watch a sitcom? Yea we had TV and 50 guys had to agree on one channel-try and accomplish that. Have you ever stabbed someone who was trying to take your soap you got sent from home? Well I did and at the time it felt damn good, you better believe the cat never stole another thing from my locker for the short time that I was left at that facility, they don't like trouble makers so they send you from facility to facility until you spend all your time in confinement, which was half of my time. Try spending some time in confinement, it's a lovely smell in the hallway of feces because the cat in the next cell is deranged and throwing feces all out in the hall, then you get told no food cause the guards won't come down and serve.
Sorry to rant on this, but all of you who have NOT been in both situations cannot say what it's like, you can assume and even make a judgement on which you'd prefer. But when you work there,YOU are on the other side of the fence and as you probably say to your inmates JUST like they did to me "at least I go home at night".
Been there done that. One good thing, at least I can go home at night too:)
Mark

Well speaking from experience, without being in both situations one can only make their best guess as to how it would be for them. Me, well I saw both, 2 years in Sarasota Straight and then 5 years in the florida corrections facilities. They are both prisons of one sort or another, mental and physical. As for prison and knowing when you'll get out, thats not exactly true. I went in expecting to get released in 2 years figuring time off for good behaviour. Well of course that's not how it happened, you either are a good boy or a bad boy in there, if your a bad boy then you end up spending much more time due to your "misbehaving"-see the two are similar in ways, right? I encited riots, sold drugs, made wine, many fights-mostly racial, I even got arrested in prison for possession and introduction of contraband into a state facility-then taken to the outside jail and sat there for 2 weeks getting what they call outside charges brought on me. I scarred my body with many "jailhouse tattoos", why, ya just had too. I had many racist tattoos put on to seperate myself, which I have had covered over out of respect.
Rather than going on and on about one's lifes experiences, It comes down to this, Straight and Prison are one in the same but yet with many differences, if you can understand that.
Peace