Lags identify factor ‘everybody is aware of’ to not do in jail – it isn’t what you assume
A group of ex-prisoners have told what the one thing you should not do in prison is – and it really isn’t what you think.
For all the jokes about “dropping the soap in the shower,” hundreds of lags have taken to Reddit to give their biggest piece of advice about how to get by in prison without causing too much prison. Replying to the thread in the Prison subreddit asking what the “one thing everyone knows NOT to do in prison” is, the most up-voted piece of advice was not what you’d expect.
They wrote: “(Do not) get in other people’s business,” while another wrote: “Never snitch, steal, gossip, back down, converse with cops. One to-do is ALWAYS have your boys back.”
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And when many said to “find a back-up” person, one ex-prisoner gave a very detail telling of what happened to them. Posting under the username Flammmma, they said: “I was in for a 30 day remand, after a couple days I got a co-pilot. He was in for attempted murder on a police officer and had spent 15 of his 20 adult years in jail, previously for stabbing someone 40 times.
“Surprisingly he’d never been in a single fight in jail. He told me he’d back me if anyone started on me, I had to tell him only to help me if the person had a knife or if they were stomping me after I was already out.
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“(In my opinion) it’s not worth getting involved if it’s just a fight.”
Seeing the funny side of it all was one lag, using the name ventrue05, who joked: “You telling me if I went to prison and read books my entire sentence most of folks won’t bother me aggressively.”
This was greeted with more personal stories, basically telling him that yes . . . this is pretty much how you survive prison.
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One wrote: “That’s pretty much how I did my time. Laying on my bunk, reading. Staying in my lane. Nobody f with me at all.”
And another said: “People just don’t understand how basic respect and decency goes along way. They are the people who can’t maintain them.”
So there you go, if you end up in prison (not that we’d encourage it), just go find a book and read it until your sentence ends.
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