How Often Should A Jail Inmate Be Allowed To Shower?

@Cutiepi23 The Oklahoma County jail is overcrowded. They had a hostage situation with a guard being taken hostage and an inmate was killed during the situation this weekend. One of the inmates says that he is in a cell with two others and he sleeps on the floor next to a toilet.

@cherokeepatti Overcrowding just makes prisons more dangerous. For guards, as well as inmates. Covid is also rampant in jails.

@cherokeepatti People snap under these horrid conditions. A lot if people have no sympathy or empathy with prisoners but the are still human beings. They have been removed from society because of their crime.
Another point not to do with the question is how many innocent people have been jailed heart breaking. 😭😢

@chrisCA Oh yes it does make them more dangerous. I remember being in high school in spring of 1973 and our sociology class had someone who had gotten out of prison recently come & speak to our class. He said the prison in McAlester was a hotbed fixing to explode. And by the summer it did. One of the main complaints from the prisoners was that they wanted bars of soap and to be able to take showers more often since there was no a/c and it was hot the prison was like a sweat box.
I went to visit someone at a business on Saturday and a psychologist stopped by, he used to work in the state prisons here was telling me that they don’t want to reduce the prison population. Too many politicians are making money off of private prisons. If they can get them to either repeat a crime & come back to the prisons or get violations and have time added to their sentencing then that helps the greedy hogs who are profiting from it.

@Cutiepi23 do the crime,do the time

@Cutiepi23 Yes there are innocent people in prison that are being released if the Indigent Defense team runs DNA tests proving that the evidence presented in their trial was flawed. Some spent over 15 years in prison for rapes and other crimes that they didn’t commit.

@cherokeepatti That is something people would associate with a Third World country.

@cherokeepatti Thats horrific & inhumane. 🤢😡 sick & angry what people do for money.

@MarineBob this is Oklahoma, there was a woman named Joyce Gilchrist that falsified evidence and sent a lot of people to prison for crimes they didn’t commit, it was before DNA testing but her and the governor were in cahoots. When the Indigent Defense team wanted DNA tested done some freezers holding evidence had the power go off mysteriously. Private prisons were a big motivator for such crap.

@cherokeepatti Much of it due to racism in the American justice system.

@Cutiepi23 It is. Someone needs to be held accountable.

@MarineBob Oh, such a simple answer.

@chrisCA No most of it is due to greed by politicians. This psychologist was hostile about the politicians here in Oklahoma allowing it to happen.

@cherokeepatti I know, what can I say especially with sexual crimes men are not treated fairly in comparison to the woman falsely accusing them. The compensation woman get for an alleged sexual crime makes these accusations on the increase.

@cherokeepatti Some politicians have not been the biggest proponents of science lately.

@MarineBob Yes but the prinors shouldnt be tortured in ways Ive seen on Tv & read about. Prison guards rape woman & its fact. Lots of evil goes on in prison. Yes do the time but not be tortured like some are. As I've mentioned throught my comments on this post theres a heck of a lot of innocent people unfortunately jailed also.

@Cutiepi23 Not to mention that some guards are responsible for some of the drugs that make their way inside.

@Cutiepi23 How do you expect a person to get reformed for some of the more minor crimes if they are treated in an extremely inhumane way? I understand taking away their freedom & privileges as a consequence to teach them to not commit future crimes but to dehumanize them (especially for those who were not violent to begin with) is not the right way. A good portion of women prisoners are in prison are found to have been sexually abused in horrific conditions in their homes. How about humanizing them for a change and teaching them the right way to live? A county jail is a mix of those types, white collar criminals and violent criminals....treating them all like some want to do the lowest common denominator is not the best way.

@chrisCA pretty common

@chrisCA yup corruption is rife. Very good point.

@Cutiepi23 the worse manager I ever had at the university was a retired prison warden. She caused so many lawsuits she was told to resign. Would send out memos accusing people of things that they didn’t do, would make us sign papers for new rules every week, doubled our workload & several years no raises telling us there was no money in the budget for raises while she was getting fat bonuses and having 2 meals per day catered to her and the supervisors & leads expecting us to work through our unpaid lunch hours....that’s the type of corruption I saw with her and expect it was even worse in the prison system. I suspect she was doing worse things.

@cherokeepatti I know the prisons have some sort of reform projects going on but I think from what Ive seen on Tv documentaries & read a minimal amount of prisoners would receive it & benefit from reform programmes. I think corruption/ crimes in prisons from guards & also mentioned earlier people are being kept in prison longer or returned because the prisons for profit as prisons are being privatised. Must be hell on earth for some off the weaker type people. I am fully aware some people must be removed from society permanently so they cant harm others. I wouldnt say pander to them but treat them as humane as possible. Some people cant be reformed in or out of prison.
Theres a guy on this post who says its his prison he must be a guard or somethings. A lot of people working in prisons are bullies what chance have the people in for petty crimes got. They probaly return to society mentally broken.

@cherokeepatti My blood is boiling 😡👿

@Cutiepi23 it is pure greed behind most of the problems. The psychologist I talked to on Saturday had worked many years for the state prison system. He wrote a program to help reduce the recidivism rate and it was working. It got removed & replaced by something that is not effective at all. He said the politicians have gotten bribes to vote in private prisons and some are silent partners in the private prisons so they have ulterior motives to keep people in prison or have them repeat offend and get longer sentences each time.

@cherokeepatti society is so corrupt now a days or am I just awaking more to it?
Im in no way defending people who commit crimes.They have all their rights taken away & are out of harms way but whats going on is sickening.There are many criminals that look respectsble like your example politicians that should get a taste of what they are creating.

Ive seen documentaries on how some learning disabaled are treated in care facilities also. Totally sickening. The world is a beautiful place shame about some of the people who hold power in it because of money. Where theres money theres usually corruption.