36 Ex-Cons And Prison Guards Share Their Craziest, Most Unbelievable Stories From Prison

31. This is plain abuse.

Yeah I posted this story before, but when I was in there in the medical unit the guards would find any excuse to beat up the retards in the padded cell. They would storm the cell in full riot gear and just wail on these poor guys while they screamed stop resisting as the guy was huddled up in the fetal position literally pissing themselves. It was by far the worst thing I have ever witnessed in my life.

32. A pretty clever idea if you ask me…

I used to work at the jail in TN as a nurse. For about a month straight we kept having a bunch of inmates in a 4C coming up positive for opiates (tested because of the fact we knew they were taking something) yet they were not prescribed any. The COs did a cell search as well as a cavity search on all the inmates in that cell. They couldn’t find anything. It wasn’t until two weeks later one of the COs saw an inmate licking the “crayon” on the picture he had received from his “kid”. Turns out two of the inmates wives were taking pills, grinding them up, coloring them with food dye, and then using it to paint the coloring book pages to resemble a kids picture.

33. Sounds like a friendly lady!

My mom was in jail for a couple of days. One of the people she met in the prison was a woman, who had two brothers. She was in jail because one of her brothers, his wife, and the woman, cut up the other brother and threw his pieces in a bonfire. All for more inheritance money.

34. No shame.

I have an older friend who was in Atlanta Prison Farm in the 80s for trafficking marijuana. He told me a story about two Cuban transgender inmates doing BDSM out in the open.

35. This is disturbing on so many levels.

Used to live across the street from the Walls Unit years ago. Picked up some crappy local paper and was horrified by the story I read which I will try to retell. Effectively, if you go into a prison and are taken out of it as a hostage, you are legally dead. As in the guards can shoot you. So some do-gooders go in to teach some prisoners and they are taken hostage. They are shacked up in the library where they build a box out of cardboard and chalkboards. The box is open on the bottom so they can walk out and not know who is where in the box. The box is eventually allowed out of the jail where as soon as it hits the street it is fired upon and everyone inside dies (including the hostages). And this happened right across the street from where I lived. Never saw it on national news. Felt like I lived in the Twilight zone.

36. Apparently this man didn’t really care to keep his body full intact.

I am a C/O at a small medium security facility. We had this guy who actually managed to cut his kneecap out and used it as an ashtray. That’s not even the weirdest thing he did by a long shot. A few years later he cut a small piece of flesh off of his hip and mailed it to the state corrections commissioner with a letter stating that he was going to get out even if he had to mail himself out a piece at a time. Apparently the commissioner really is a stickler for the rules/has a sense of humor. That inmate had a few more years added to his sentence for escape. This is technically the correct approach since it is considered escape if even your pinky is outside of the fence. Thought Catalog Logo Mark

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