Jan 01, 1994
Life for 2 million convicts (6/10 re-offenders) is US jails is mainly monotony, daily routine, essentially waiting in a cramped cell. The intake process in Joliet, Illinois Correctional center demonstrates how they are literally stripped of their personality into uniform and strict rules. Fresh meat needs to learn the ropes, hopefully from a cell-mate, and find the right attitude to neither provoke nor seem easy prey. Although an illegal health risk, 'locally improvised' prison tattoos are very common, especially among prison gangs. Some effeminate queer cons practice...