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Things learned from lockup


1. Prisons uses old ambulance vehicles to transport prisoners
2. Prisoners with a vendetta against them, must be transported at night for dramatic effect and against their will.

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Also that some states allow their correctional officers to make arrests the same way police do. This includes arresting your own Warden.

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You are totally allowed to build a car, and even fill it with gas, without any kind of supervision

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If you never learned to read as a kid, prison is the perfect place to earn a G.E.D.

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Electric chairs have fuses, because God forbid, you don't want to draw too much current and accidentally kill someone.

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Fuses are to protect the wiring. That applies to all fuses, circuit breakers, and fusible links, regardless of the application. Fuses aren't to protect the devices that are being powered (in the case of an electric chair, the condemned person would be the "device"). Without a fuse, if a dead short happens, the wire itself becomes the fuse, but it will glow red hot long before it burns through, potentially catching the insulation on fire, which could set the building on fire.

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If you ever mentor a younger inmate, make sure you have an insurance policy on him.

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Prisoners taken to a hard labor facility under the eye of a vengeful warden are allowed to work wherever they want and only get thrown in the hole when someone else screws up.

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If you are muscular when you are thrown into solitary for 6 weeks, as long as you exercise a lot, you will be muscular when you come out even though they've restricted you to half rations of food.

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