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i'm an over 50 ex-con new to the internet. teach me your ways

Not sure where to post this but the American prison system is pretty fucked so this comm will do. Cool/weird thread to read. Highlights:

youtube does look cool. i have used it a little but i get a lot of suggestions that i don't like, like right wing stuff and i dont know why.

my cousin told me to check out the reddit site but i didn't like it. he said this place might be better and i've been readind a little here and i like the conversation form here more than the reddit thing.

honestly though and many of you might not believe it but i am a happy person now. and after many years of not seeing a single tree i can enjoy sitting on my mom's porch and watching the birds. i like that a lot and it brings me peace.

  • Parzivus [any]
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    1 year ago

    Seriously, this thread whips violently back and forth between funny and depressing. He got 27 years for killing his abusive stepdad and didn't see a tree the entire time. He said Cumtown sounds like a prison shower. I dunno man.

    • Parzivus [any]
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      1 year ago

      as a kid i didn't read much at all and our poor town didnt have a good school system or public library

      but once inside i realized i needed something to pass the time so i started reading ursula k. leguin

      i didn't start reading on a regular basis until 2 or 3 years in but the first thing of hers i read was the lathe of heaven and it blew my mind and that's not even one of her best in my opinion.

      to a kid who was facing a long time in that environment the idea of a man who could shape reality with his dreams was freaking wild. i must have read it 6 times. at the time it was one of the only books in that genre available to us. i begged and pleaded with the guy in charge of the library and he eventually got a couple more of her books in. friends and family sent me more of her stuff.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        If this person has an appetite for reading perhaps some agitation material on the prison systems might actually get read by them. I don't know what to suggest for the US context though.