"The Guards Beat Him To Death": People Who've Been To Prison Are Sharing The Most Devastating Things They Saw, And I Need A Minute

“There was this woman that would sometimes visit her husband and give him handjobs under the table; sometimes she would sit on his lap and ride him for a while... Right next to her two little kids.”

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"I saw him once more before I got out, and I asked him what tf happened that day. All he said was, “I felt like fucking somebody up." Needless to say, I’ve had serious trust issues since then, and since being locked up in general. Seeing that literal 18-year-old get beaten to death in front of me was pretty fucked."

"He lost his partner, missed his chance to appear in the exam, and lost a bit of his mind as well. There are countless small stories that I've seen, which is extremely sad. When I narrate this to people, there's very little sympathy towards them."

"We also had a nurse who came around to give everybody their meds in the morning and evening who quit because the officer in charge of the jail was constantly bitching her out for being too nice to the inmates (she was a really sweet younger lady, I think relatively fresh out of college). Basically she thought that we were already at a low point in our lives, so we deserved some kindness, and the officer didn't agree, and he started giving her a hard time about anything he could. I think the incident with the cancer guy was the last straw for her." 

"Christmas eve, he asked me if Santa was going to still give him presents if he was in jail. Is that fucked up enough? Yeah. It gets worse. So much worse. 

Administration decided to house him on our special needs unit. Makes sense; however, our special needs unit is mostly comprised of...pedophiles. We put a mentally handicapped man who looks 15 and acts like an eight-year-old in a unit full of pedophiles. Take a guess what happened. Figured it out? Take a guess how many times it continued to happen AFTER BEING REPORTED. I'm done; this is pissing me off just thinking about it."