While unpacking a crate of fruit donated by a Texas police department, inmates at a state prison found 25 lbs. of weed stashed with the bananas. They immediately reported it to authorities who awarded their honesty with with strip searches. |TheMonitor|
You know who you don’t want to fuck with in prison? Bernie Madoff, that’s who! You especially don’t want to fuck with Bernie Madoff about stocks. So don’t roll up in the yard spouting off horseshit about the wisdom of short-selling corn futures, because Bernie will straight open up a can of whup-ass on you, just like he did some old dude recently. Read more »
An alcohol-based hand sanitizer intended to fight against Swine Flu has been banned from a British prison after inmates began scarfing it down and started a drunken brawl. Inmates at the Verne Prison on Isle of Portland, Dorset have reportedly “been placing their mouths over the dispensers and consuming it” and according to one prison official, “There was a fight after one of the prisoners got violent after drinking the gel,” leading to the disarmament of the prison’s viral defense. |Telegraph|
Later this week, Governor Paterson is expected to sign a bill banning the shackling of pregnant prisoners, noting that “a woman giving birth to a child is hardly the first person that is going to be thinking of trying to escape.” Although other states’ bans on the practice haven’t led to escape attempts, New York prison officials are wary. |AP|
A word of warning to vegan graffiti writers: don’t get caught in New York City. Graffiti bomber turned designer CLAW paid a friendly visit to UTAH, who is recently incarcerated on Riker’s Island, and twitters: “She said it’s not so bad, like a ghetto sleepaway camp. Suave shamps. She is starving b/c she is vegan. No tempeh on the island apparently.” According to the Department of Corrections, inmates with special dietary needs have to go to the clinic and get the nutrionist to issue a special id card. Apparently that’s easier said than done. Read more »
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