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[brandon14295]

well if yall didnt notice ive been gone for the past 2 weeks down to Huntsville, Texas for the sergeants academy for the texas department of criminal justice. we had a fun time. lots of new information for us sgts. Huntsville is the heart of the texas prison system. the 'walls' unit was the first prison in texas and still operating today as the execution unit. enjoy the pics.



where our class is



3 of our captians


everyone except me smokes


class


i love toothpicks


senario training


the very building in which bonnie and clyde helped 2 inmates escape from which resulted in the death of an officer.


welcome to the big house


the walls unit has a 20 ft brick wall surrounding its interals. and thats one of 6 armed pickets.



entering the unit. these brass bars are polished everyday by inmates.


this is the VERY FIRST prison cell in texas. how would you like to spend 20 yrs in that hole?


the original death row cells. today the death row inmates are housed at the Polunsky unit and sent to the walls unit for execution.



this man is someone you do not want to mess with. he is the warden of teh walls unit. and yes, taht is the execution bed that we still use today for every offender put to death.


get ready to laugh.... one of the officers locked the keys in the state van so they brought an inmate out to break into it!

[brandon14295]

heres the texas prison museum open to the public. if you are ever in hustville, its a must see.


this is our fallen officer's monument.


ol' sparky. this was used before we had lethal injection.


bonnie and clyde's freakin sweet .45



just a few of the contraband items found in prisons. inmates can make anything out of anything.


firearms that the agency has used throughout its history. currently we use s&w 357, rem 870, and colt ar-15. weapons we are getting in the near future- glock 357, and the pepperball gun. fun


restraints and punishing instruments from back in the day.


lethal injection


this is what an inmates cell looks like today.


well thank yall for veiwing and hope this educates you a little about the Texas department of criminal justice.

[DM5GUY]

very cool and interesting. i hope you enjoyed it. i laughed at the locked car part.

[trophyman582]

I lol'd at the inmate breaking into the van. Good pics.

[wise690]

We learned about the Polunsky unit a week or two ago in my Criminal Justice class. Interesting stuff, cool pictures.

[A-5best]

And yes the inmate breaking in was hilarious.

[Zaunji]

Originally Posted by brandon14295

this is what an inmates cell looks like today.

It looks nicer then in the cartoons...

Though I like the Bonnie ad Clyde pistol and the part with the inmate and the van as funny.

The pictures are interesting.

[Paintballrocks]

We have pepperball guns in our local prison I know for a fact. My friends father is a guard and a while back he was prosecuted for cruelty to inmates. He was never convicted because he never did anything wrong.

Basically the inmate decided not to go back to his cell and was getting hostile. My friends father decided to shoot him once with the pepperball gun, he just sat there and got even angrier, he then shot him 2 more times and he did nothing, got even angrier and approaced my friends father. My friends father took the gun and wacked him with it and knocked him unconcious.

lol..we had quite the laugh over that, after it was all said and done. If you knew the man it would be somewhat funnier too(my friends father, not the inmate)

[drchocolate176]

very cool

[Zedthephish]

Originally Posted by Paintballrocks

We have pepperball guns in our local prison I know for a fact. My friends father is a guard and a while back he was prosecuted for cruelty to inmates. He was never convicted because he never did anything wrong.

Basically the inmate decided not to go back to his cell and was getting hostile. My friends father decided to shoot him once with the pepperball gun, he just sat there and got even angrier, he then shot him 2 more times and he did nothing, got even angrier and approaced my friends father. My friends father took the gun and wacked him with it and knocked him unconcious.

lol..we had quite the laugh over that, after it was all said and done. If you knew the man it would be somewhat funnier too(my friends father, not the inmate)

Yeah, those are exactly the kind of people suited to working with people, the ones that laugh about beating people.

On Topic: Brandon, I went back to a hardtail. I need the lethal injection.

[wablez]

Originally Posted by brandon14295

restraints and punishing instruments from back in the day.

Is dat sum weeabo?

[Paintballrocks]

Originally Posted by Zedthephish

Yeah, those are exactly the kind of people suited to working with people, the ones that laugh about beating people.

On Topic: Brandon, I went back to a hardtail. I need the lethal injection.

You twist and mangle what I say in everyway.

His dad wasnt the one laughing. We were laughing about it this morning at breakfast.

You're so critical that you act like an idiot sometimes zed.

[Neon Lites]

Brandon, I have a question for you. Why do you call them "inmates?" They're convicts, if they were an "inmate", that would mean that theyre insane. When they get out, wont they be called "ex-cons" and not "ex-inmates?"

[brandon14295]

Originally Posted by Neon Lites

Brandon, I have a question for you. Why do you call them "inmates?" They're convicts, if they were an "inmate", that would mean that theyre insane. When they get out, wont they be called "ex-cons" and not "ex-inmates?"

the actual name for them is offender. offender, inmate, convict, piece of ****, its all the same. but using the name offender is more professional.

[PBfreak01]

Originally Posted by brandon14295

just a few of the contraband items found in prisons. inmates can make anything out of anything.

TP and flip flops are contraband? The flip flips I could see as an impromptu weapon, but TP?

[iconoclast]

Originally Posted by Zedthephish

Y
On Topic: Brandon, I went back to a hardtail. I need the lethal injection.

Welcome to the dark, uncomfortable side of racing....are you going to be an xc racer punk now?

[brandon14295]

those items such as shower shoes, and tp, were taken up because they had contraband concealed in them. flip flops had a shank, boots had tattoo gun, and tp had paper money inside.

[PBfreak01]

Originally Posted by brandon14295

those items such as shower shoes, and tp, were taken up because they had contraband concealed in them. flip flops had a shank, boots had tattoo gun, and tp had paper money inside.

So why didn't they just take what was in them?

Sometimes I really worry about some people...especially since there is only one boot in there...

[brandon14295]

to educate new officers and show them where to look.


and there are 3 boots in there.

[Raleigh Allen]

That's pretty cool. I live 30 minutes away from Huntsville.