This is getting to be a routine with me. Still shaking off the sleepies that are clinging to me like some sort of mental kudzu. Newt bolted out of the house this morning, as I got back from doing laundry, and I had to use my ‘stun-volume’ yell to stop him from running out into the street. (It’s pretty cool… if I bellow at him really loudly, he’ll go down on is belly, and I can then sort of walk over to him and pick him up. I think he think’s it’s some sort of game.) Still, it’s better to yell at him than have him creamed in front of my apartment. Silly guy wanted to play paperwad fetch the rest of the morning before I went to work, so I obliged him. 🙂
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JAILS VS. PRISONS
JAILS
Jails are most often run by local governments and/or sheriffs.
Jails hold individuals who are awaiting trial or are serving short sentences. In Florida, inmates sentenced to serve 364 days or less, serve that time in jail.
Jails have a short average length of stay. Some admissions are for a few hours. Other pre-trial detainees are held for several years awaiting their trial. For that reason, the “average length of stay” data is skewed.
Jails must be able to accommodate all arrestees from those charged with misdemeanors to violent criminal offenders. For that reason, most jails are designed as maximum custody facilities.
Jails must provide all ranges of medical and mental health services, and be able to handle any medical emergency. It is estimated that 12% to 18% of jail admissions in the United States are individuals with acute or chronic mental illness.
Jails operate work release programs, boot camps, and other specialized services. They try to address education needs, substance abuse needs, and vocational needs while managing inmate behavior. Inmate idleness contributes to management problems.
Jails try to link departing inmates with services in their local communities such as veterans’ programs, AIDS/HIV counseling and treatment, and mental health counseling.
There are approximately 3,600 jails in the United States. The Broward Sheriff’s Office currently maintains three major facilities: the North Broward Detention Center, the Main Jail and the Division of Community Corrections. The number of beds in the entire system currently is 3,730. The average daily population is 4,300. When the new Joseph V. Conte facility opens, 1,024 beds will be added.
The BSO jail system is the 13th largest local jail system in the United States. It is one of only 3% of the local jails in the United States to have earned accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation for Corrections.
The federal government also operates several “jails” across the country which hold persons awaiting trial in federal court. The Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Miami Correctional Center is such a facility. All branches of the military also operate jails (brigs) to hold military personnel prior to court marshall.
PRISONS
Prisons are operated by state governments and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). Prisons are designed to hold individuals convicted of crimes.
Most prison facilities are exclusively either maximum, medium, or minimum custody facilities. Rarely are inmates with different classification levels mixed in the same facility.
State prison systems operate halfway houses, work release centers and community restitution centers — all considered medium or minimum custody. Inmates assigned to such facilities are usually reaching the end of their sentences.
Prisons are much different than jails. The constant turnover of inmates in a jail doesn’t happen in a prison. Prisons offer programs designed to rehabilitate inmates. About 97% of inmates committed to a state prison will eventually return to the community.
rules for visiting people in jail
Visiting, Writing & Phoning Inmates
Visiting Rules & Regulations:
Accommodations are made for one 2-hour visit per week. Visiting days and hours vary according to the BSO jail facility. Inmates are informed of visiting days and hours and are responsible for relaying this information to those who wish to visit them.
Due to limited visiting space, only two adults or one minor supervised by a parent may visit during the weekly visiting period.
Photo identification — such as a driver’s license, military identification, passport or state-issued ID card — must be presented by each adult visitor. Visitors who do not have proper identification will not be permitted to visit.
Visitors must be appropriately dressed. Shoes, shirts and appropriate underclothing must be worn. Visitors wearing suggestive clothing, transparent fabric, short-shorts or mini- skirts will not be permitted to visit.
Visitors under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian who must present either a birth certificate or court documentation showing appointment of legal guardianship. Minors must be supervised at all times by the parent or legal guardian.
Visitors must remain in the assigned visiting room/area during the visit and will be denied further visitation if determined to be under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
Visitors may not give anything to — or take anything from — an inmate.
Proper behavior of all visitors is required.
I’m stuck n post and reply mode. I think it’s due in part to the fact that I don’t want to sit still and think about my friends and myself even though I’m writing about them now.
to go by item.
1. I know 2 people in jail
2. I know 11 people who are potentially unemployed come end of month.
3. Does anyone get along with their parents? Not me, not many folks in lj-land, not many folks I work with. Is the generation gap getting wider?
4. I’m tired… and want to get my snooze-gear soon. You know the insomnia thing for Fight Club? That’s how dulled my senses are right now. Witty? I’m a dolt right now, and I know I can be more clever.
Must focus on something good. What good has happened today? I’m being too negative… can’t think of anything particularly positive that happened today.
Maybe if I get out of here at a decent hour, I can read a good book tonight, and lounge some. That’ll make stuff better. Will play with the cat. I’ll get some bubbles on the way home, and blow them for the kitty. I’ve got a weird vibe today… don’t like it. Need to find some good mood music, a nice color or something.
happy songs
Not much thought, but some. first ten songs that come to mind that bring me great happiness, in no particular order:
1. Stevie Wonder – sunshine of my Life
2. Otis Redding – Dock of the Bay
3. Johnny Angel by (what’s her name, played Coach’s girlfriend! ack)
4. Happy Happy Joy Joy – Grandmaster Whizzleteats
5. They might be giants – Birdhouse in your Soul
6. Enya – Damn near anything.
7. Crash Test Dummies – Superman’s Song
8. Wagner – Das Rheingold
9. Holst – Jupiter
10. Theme to Freakazoid. Mighty fine.
Up Up and away (In my Beautiful airship)
The best UFO story of all is the story of the fabulous airship of 1897. It’s got everything: contactees, cattle mutilation, sonorous pronouncements, mysterious lights, the planet Venus, alien bodies, crash wreckage, Men in Black, politics and sex. Well, it doesn’t have much sex. It was 1897, after all.
The full story will follow someday soon. in the meantime, just know that there’s nothing new under the sun. 🙂
stolen from myth, latraviata and cider, my turn!
Interesting factoids about me:
I’m a goliath at 6’6″ tall with long brown hair and blue eyes.
My first real job was page at the local library, helping folks find information, and I’ve loved the idea ever since.
I’ve been a vegetarian for a little bit over a decade.
I haven’t driven a car in over 4 years, and haven’t had a proper permit in well over 8.
I am incredibly fortunate to have some wonderful friends in Danny, Dave and Cathi, who can be relied on to help me in times of dire need.
I like most childern and animals more than grownups.
I am a big fan of folklore and mythology.
I like women that are curvy.
I have a younger brother, who has been on TV and in magazines for professional Surfing.
Fall is my favourite season, green and purple my favourite colors.
Ten interesting lieoids about me:
The vegetarian thing doesn’t extend to *human flesh*.
My cat is really a spy, and plans on killing me once his mission is done here.
I love the musical stylings of Yoko Ono.
I can smell when women are ‘having that time’.
I’ve spent over 1/3 of my life in jail, for a crime I didn’t commit… but I don’t mind because they never caught me for something far worse.
I long for the a return of the sensibilities of the ’50s. the 1450’s.
When intimate with someone, a sign of my love is my falsetto yodels.
While I openly admit the rulers of the earth are giant ants, I rarely talk about the queen cheese that controls their drone-like actions.
I secretly admire Rush Limbaugh.
Everything I say is clever ventriloquism from my anus.
eat dirt!
In many societies all around the world it is considered not only
normal but actually beneficial to consume certain kinds of earth. In
Africa and other places, pregnant women regularly eat special kinds
of earth, and in some cultures clay is mixed with bread or other
foods as an extender.
The practice of earth-eating, also called geophagy [jee-OFF-uh-jee]
has been alive for millennia. There are three main reasons for it.
First, certain kinds of clay can provide mineral nutrients not easily
available elsewhere (which is why it is often eaten by pregnant
women). Second, some types of mineral earth are able to absorb
toxins that would otherwise poison us. Third, soft mineral clay is a
harmless, bulky filler that can extend bread and other staple foods
during times of famine.
The last free-roaming panthers in North America can be found in south
Florida’s Everglades. These beautiful, tawny beasts are the Florida
panthers, of which only 30-50 remain in the wild.
Because Florida panthers require unspoiled territories that are many
miles across, the continuing human development of the Everglades and
Big Cypress wetlands has dramatically reduced their numbers.
Recently, study programs have been locating and tracking the animals,
and large tracts of land have been added to the protected parklands
in an effort to help preserve their home ranges.
Between wetlands restoration, panther tracking and study, and captive
breeding programs, it might be possible to rescue the Florida
panthers from extinction. As top predators in the South Florida
ecosystem, the panthers’ numbers reflect the success or failure of
the entire Everglades restoration effort.
More about the endangered Florida panthers:
http://mapping.usgs.gov/mac/isb/pubs/booklets/scientists/panthers.html
http://www.nps.gov/ever/current/panther2.htm
The vast, expensive, difficult Everglades restoration effort:
http://features.LearningKingdom.com/fact/archive/1999/08/19.html
Our word “idiot” comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.
Edith Hamilton
No lemons, no melon.
for lunch… mac and cheese
for breakfast total corn flakes
for supper movie theatre popcorn?
Nobody’s noticed my titles have been mostly palendromes lately.
Nutbunnies. I am really bored.
31st anniversary of the moon-landing. I watched it on TV, but don’t remember it. I was only 4 1/2 months old!
Oh! one of the things I forgot!
Rob Shea & Rob Wilson’s “Illuminatus” books.
Neato-keeno.
Gregory Prescott von Berg
literally defined means –
“Guardian of the Priest’s House on the Mountain”
Well… that’s nice, I guess. 🙂
Scott feels sort of trollish today. (Headache, and light sensitive)
Troll
(from encarta)
Troll, in Scandinavian mythology, a powerful giant that was an enemy of humans. Trolls lived in caves or in castles on hilltops, robbing and eating any travelers foolish enough to stray into their domain after dark. Huge, hard-skinned, and virtually indestructible, they could only be vanquished by sunlight, which would either turn them to stone or make them explode.
In later folklore, trolls were less awesome and malevolent. They committed specific acts of malice, such as stealing maidens, and also began to develop semimagical powers such as prophecy and shape-shifting. Outside Scandinavia trolls began to be associated with stories of the so-called little people who lived in mounds on the outer limits of cultivated land and performed acts of mischief.