{"id":582,"date":"2005-07-27T22:12:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-28T02:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=582"},"modified":"2005-12-10T16:48:14","modified_gmt":"2005-12-10T21:48:14","slug":"deterrence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/deterrence","title":{"rendered":"Deterrence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night, I discovered that an acquaintance of mine (friend of a friend) is serving nearly 2 years<\/a> in the penitentiary at Fort Dix. I’ve been researching both the pen and prison life in general.<\/p>\n

Here’s the website<\/a> of a prisoner named Michael Santos, who’s serving 26 years (he’s supposed to finish his sentence in 2013). He educated himself in prison and writes pretty well (prosaically, actually) about the day-to-day ugliness of prison life. Santos was a prisoner at Fort Dix, and wrote about it<\/a> pretty extensively.<\/p>\n

During my researches, I also discovered that the Bureau of Prisons has a federal inmate locator<\/a>, and that some of the forums at Prisontalk.com<\/a> are monstrously depressing.<\/p>\n

I’ve also discovered that I will, for the rest of my life, do my utmost NEVER to get sent to prison.<\/p>\n

As a guy who allegedly writes for a living, and one who tends to go for humor, I’m finding it awfully difficult to write to a friend-of-a-friend who’s in prison. But he oughtta know that people on the outside are thinking of him. I mean, life on the outside<\/span> can be pretty lonely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night, I discovered that an acquaintance of mine (friend of a friend) is serving nearly 2 years in the penitentiary at Fort Dix. I’ve been researching both the pen and prison life in general. Here’s the website of a prisoner named Michael Santos, who’s serving 26 years (he’s supposed to finish his sentence in … <\/p>\n

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