Funny (true) prison story from dad

[Lorien]

My dad is the staff psychologist for a State women's penitentiary. Last week, he had one of the inmates in a session and was asking her why she had attacked another inmate. "She insulted me" was the response. "Well, what could she have said that was so bad that you felt compelled to physically attack her?" asked my father. "She called me a 'fucking republican crack whore'" replied the inmate" and NOBODY calls me a republican"!

[southerngirlwriter]

1. mwhaahahaahahahahahahaha

I love it!!! :D

[5thGenDemocrat]

2. I think you just won the "Most Interesting Thread Title of the Month"

I had to check it out. Good anecdote, too.
John
Does this suggest it's safe to assume we have the crack whore vote sewn up?

[Lorien]

6. Lol!

Yeah, the inmate said that both of them were crack whores, so that didn't bother her, but the republican comment crossed the line!

My dad said he was laughing on and off all day over that one:D

[Mick Knox]

3. haha .. great story!

[SmileyBoy]

4. Good one!!!

I think "republican" is an insult as well!!!

[Cursive_Knives512]

5. Oh dear!

lol!! :headbang:

[Laughing Mirror]

7. We turn poor people with health problems into criminals

And lock them away from view in prisons. How nice.

[Lorien]

8. You know what?

Now that you've hijacked this thread, I may as well tell you; there are a lot of women in that prison whose lives were so horrible on the OUTSIDE world that prison is the first place they've ever felt "safe". My father had an inmate hang herself last month because she was about to be paroled. There are some things worse than being locked away.

[Laughing Mirror]

9. So keep bundling sick people with horrible lives off to prison

Rather than depenalize drugs and implement a national health care system which help to make their lives safe and productive,

[Lorien]

11. Start your own damn thread!

I've already weighed in on these issues on previous threads. For the record:

I belive we should treat drugs and the addicted as the Dutch do. Filling up prisons with addicts helps no one.

I use to have a prostitute as a college roommate. That's a long story, but needless to say-I tried to help her find other, less unhealthy, employment. I never thought she belonged in prison-if I did, I wouldn't have been living with her!

OF COURSE we need a National Health care system! Jeezus, how on earth did you decide that I, or any DUer would be against such an idea? It would also be good if the legal system would have helped some of these women with their abusive boyfriends/ husbands before the situation turned tragic, but they didn't.Since you don't know each of their stories, please don't make so many presumptions about them.

My father doesn't make the laws, and he thinks A LOT of the women there don't belong there (but the murderers usually do). He's not a judge or a cop, he didn't send them there, but he does TRY TO HELP THEM while they are there. So inmates don't deserve the assistance of a mental health care professional? Oh wait, you never said that, did you? But now you know how it feels to have someone else put absurd words in your mouth.

My dad hears horrible, infuriating, sad and depressing stories every day. This story, however, gave him a much needed laugh. The inmate laughed at his reaction to it too, saying to some effect that of course there are some things worse that being a crack whore, like being a republican. My dad just nodded and kept laughing.

[mouse7]

10. If you don't call that in to Air America next week, I will

That's toooooo funny.