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Subject: prison life
Category: Relationships and Society
Asked by: chauffeur-ga
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Posted: 07 Apr 2003 13:43 PDT
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Question ID: 187300
Any convicts in prison who have been diagnosed with a personality
disorder which would result in thier dependants on the institution.
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Subject: Re: prison life
From: n01canlive4ever-ga on 14 Apr 2003 00:07 PDT
 
can your please state your question?
Subject: Re: prison life
From: neilzero-ga on 15 Apr 2003 07:31 PDT
 
There are several kinds of personality disorders that have been
diagnosed among prisoners which may cause them to to prefer prison
over the outside or at least tolerate prison better than average
persons. Masisist comes to mind as prisoners typically suffer some
brutality. While many experts do not reguard homosectual as a
personality disorder, I am of the opinion that homosextual is a
learned behavior, a choice, and/or a bad habit for many. In most
prisons homosectual activities abound whether desired or disliked by
the persons assulted homosectually.  Neil
Subject: Re: prison life
From: callback-ga on 21 Apr 2003 17:48 PDT
 
When an offender becomes dependant upon the way of life in an
institution, we refer to him as being "institutionalized."  This is
actuallly a fairly common phenomenon.  Prison life allows for very few
choices compared to life in the "free world."  Prisoners are told when
and what they are to eat, when they can bathe, what job they can work,
etc., etc.  For some people, relying upon the predetermined regiments
and schedules of institutional life becomes easier than learning or
maintaing the skills needed to be a free, responsible individual. 
Therefore, they become "institutionalized."

Certainly, there are several types of personality disorders where the
individual copes better with a scheduled and regimented environment. 
Therefore, it would seem reasonable to assume that some would
encourage institutionalization.

From my own experience, I can vividly remember one man who was sent
into my custody on the day before he was to be released from an
institution.  When I asked about him the next day,  I found out that
he had stolen a pair of boots at the bus terminal so that he would be
sent back to prison.   I held him in my custody again a year later. 
He told me that when he had been released a second time, he had fallen
back into doing drugs because of a fit of depression that had fallen
on him when his girlfriend left him.  He said that eventually he had
turned himself in.  This is what we mean by institutionaliziation.

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