My 25 years at Folsom Prison

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doublejj

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Now that I've retired, I can come out of the closet about my past. I've spent the last 25 years working inside Folsom Prison. I was the Superintendent of the Prison Industries License Plate Factory. I supervised a crew of 150 convicts & 12 staff, in the manufacture of license plates for California. Folsom Prison is a very violent place & the staff assault rate is 30% a year. Staff have a 1-in-3 chance of being assaulted each year, I have the scars to prove it. I feel lucky to be out of there alive & with a retirement. Convicts that work in the factory get paid hrly & receive a day off their sentence for each day worked. We tried to operate as much like an outside factory as we could. When things ran smoothly, it was like a regular job......but those other days! Lord Allmight! I'll post more pic's & prison stories as I go. Anyway it's still me doublejj, AMA!..
 
ciscoin313

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I have never been in prison and I hope to never end up in such hell hole. I have my best friend doing time for marijuana charges, You are a very lucky man to have to have your life, I could never imagine working in a place where you are hated by everyone thanks for your story...
 
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ciscoin313 said:
I have never been in prison and I hope to never end up in such hell hole. I have my best friend doing time for marijuana charges, You are a very lucky man to have to have your life, I could never imagine working in a place where you are hated by everyone thanks for your story...
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When my boyfriend did time for smuggling hash he made quite a few "prison guard" friends... he said 95% of them were really nice and he had a lot of respect for them!
 
TheSnake

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ciscoin313 said:
I have never been in prison and I hope to never end up in such hell hole. I have my best friend doing time for marijuana charges, You are a very lucky man to have to have your life, I could never imagine working in a place where you are hated by everyone thanks for your story...
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Just cultivation? Or were there other charges that stacked to get him down the road, and not just county jail for a while?

Hell just for the hell of it i was looking up people around me who've been busted, to see what realistically i would expect to serve as far as penalties. The guy i found apparently made national headlines, in a muti house situation, with like 3 other people. Not to mention by the time he got a cultivation charge, he had been in and out of jail on all sorts of various other shit through the years, many of them felony's. Less than 2 years after his cultivation charge, he was back in jail on something else. So in other words, he served mere days in jail, before being bonded, then court probably took another 3 months, so the absolute most he could have served was a year, maybe a year in a half, and his record WAS HORRIBLE.

So, I aint got to worries. lol , worse comes to worse, its just jail... Pretty easy way to live, been there once. lol But i also am the type of guy that makes everybody laugh and gets along with just about anybody, so I dont really run into problems. I could see how if you were a wannabe tough guy in jail/prison how things can go quite badly for ya. I know prison is a bit dif than jail, more freedoms, yet more hardened inmates to deal with. Got a buddy who's been in and out of the big house for about a quarter of his 40 something years, But you can tell how it has hardened him.
But hes like night and day compared to me as far as aggression is concerned. Lot's of fights and things, where as I do not see the point? Risk injury/maiming over some random ish, I'm a non confrontational person, but its not weakness, if i am to fight, its going to be lethal, cause if its not lethal, it does not solve the problem at hand, only provokes further attack. I just don't get the whole "fighter" mentality.
 
cannawizard

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25yrs.. I can't even begin to imagine that scenario.. Glad to have you around doubleJJ :) Hope your enjoying your well deserved retirement, primo ;)

cheer$
 
doublejj

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Impman said:
Any convicts in there for distributing marijuana or LSD?
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No, nobody at Folsom for pot!.....Folsom is a level 3 prison, you have to earn your way there......Most of my workers were in there for murder or violent crimes.
 
doublejj

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Impman said:
This guy started a picture of yourself thread... if that doesn't scream I'm DEA then I don't know what would.
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Dude, I've been posting here for years & years. Click the link at the bottom of this post for pics of my grows!
 
dd900

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Ever get the Folsom Prison Blues?

JK. I had to do it.

Congrats on your retirement.
 
kinetic

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Impman said:
This guy started a picture of yourself thread... if that doesn't scream I'm DEA then I don't know what would.
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You should go to garden knowm's site then to further check him out. I believe it's seemorebuds.com. Helluva way to be dea, teach people how to grow buds for years.
 
Impman

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TheSnake said:
Just cultivation? Or were there other charges that stacked to get him down the road, and not just county jail for a while?

Hell just for the hell of it i was looking up people around me who've been busted, to see what realistically i would expect to serve as far as penalties. The guy i found apparently made national headlines, in a muti house situation, with like 3 other people. Not to mention by the time he got a cultivation charge, he had been in and out of jail on all sorts of various other shit through the years, many of them felony's. Less than 2 years after his cultivation charge, he was back in jail on something else. So in other words, he served mere days in jail, before being bonded, then court probably took another 3 months, so the absolute most he could have served was a year, maybe a year in a half, and his record WAS HORRIBLE.

So, I aint got to worries. lol , worse comes to worse, its just jail... Pretty easy way to live, been there once. lol But i also am the type of guy that makes everybody laugh and gets along with just about anybody, so I dont really run into problems. I could see how if you were a wannabe tough guy in jail/prison how things can go quite badly for ya. I know prison is a bit dif than jail, more freedoms, yet more hardened inmates to deal with. Got a buddy who's been in and out of the big house for about a quarter of his 40 something years, But you can tell how it has hardened him.
But hes like night and day compared to me as far as aggression is concerned. Lot's of fights and things, where as I do not see the point? Risk injury/maiming over some random ish, I'm a non confrontational person, but its not weakness, if i am to fight, its going to be lethal, cause if its not lethal, it does not solve the problem at hand, only provokes further attack. I just don't get the whole "fighter" mentality.
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A Federal Court Judge will break you off 5 years for cultivation. Believe that. Got to a fed court house and sit in for a day kid
 
MojoRison

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For what it's worth, you just did the big bitch and survived.


On a much more happier note, happy retirement.

 
doublejj

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Here's the main yard at Folsom, the License Plate Factory is the big building up on the hill. You can see the "Grey Stone Chapel" on the left that Johnny Cash sung about in the song. My office was in on the upper mezzanine and looked down into the main yard & into the factory floor. Johnny Cash "Inside the walls of prison my body may be but my Lord has set my soul free
There's a greystone chapel here at Folsom a house of worship in this den of sin
You wouldn't think that God had a place here at Folsom
But he saved the souls of many lost men
Now there's greystone chapel here at Folsom
Stands a hundred years all made of granite rock
It takes a ring of keys to move here at Folsom
But the door to the House of God is never locked
Inside the walls of prison my body may be but my Lord has set my soul free
There are men here that don't ever worship
There are men here who scoff at the ones who pray
But I've got down on my knees in that greystone chapel
And I thank the Lord for helpin' me each day
Now there's greystone chapel here at Folsom
It has a touch of God's hand on ever stone
It's a flower of light in a field of darkness and it's givin' me the strenght to carry on
Inside the walls of prison my body may be but my Lord has set my soul free"
 

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dont spout of paranoid crap on the website please and cool it down folksl.
 
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