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I love everything about this – from the amazing haircut to the humilating community payback lanyard! And helping to keep nature clean while engaging in roleplay is a major win-win! 😁

First taste of litterpicking

Today I was on annual leave and needed something to do.  So what better way for a binman to spend his time than doing some unpaid manual labour.  Inspired by walkamongyou, posts from worklad12 and more recently content from hiviz-pup and cleanthestreet (alongside discussions with other lads), I went litter picking.

I put on my PPE for the day. An orange hi vis t-shirt and trousers (which were tucked into my socks), my triple black Nike Air Max 95s and also an Adidas big logo hoodie and cap for the journey. I left home and got to the bus station early, leaving me time to head to Greggs and grab a few pastries. I had a steak bake and energy drink on the bus.

Upon arriving, I set off towards a park I'd been to before for a summer walk. Except this time, it wasn't for a leisurely stroll, it was to graft. I reached an underpass and put my Adidas clothes in my bag, now showing off my fresh high skinfade which complements the look well.

I took out my litter picker and first bin bag, put my gloves on and got to work. Immediately I noticed the attention - or lack of - I was receiving. Either disdain, or treated as if I wasn't there at all. Either way, it felt great! From the underpass, I crossed over a bridge, went through some car parks, some bus stops by the roadside and then got to the park itself. I emptied my first sacks in public bins here, filling two up completely. I saw a few lads in dirty hi Vis and we nodded at each other - the first positive attention I'd got today and confirmation of that unspoken bond between workies.

Continuing on, I went to a lake area with lots of cyclists and joggers who paid no attention to me. I briefly sat down to have a sausage roll, but otherwise I had work to do. My route then started to get even more visible - grass verges between busy roads and eventually I ended up on a set of roundabouts on a busy A road. This was the highlight of the day - so visible. I ensured my 'Community Payback' lanyard (a gift from a good workie mate) with my work ID was visible as I grafted on the roundabouts and worked down the side of the A road back towards my starting point. It hadn't been cleared up in a while.

Eventually the road ran out and I cut back into the park. I went a different route this time - coming across lots of benches with discarded takeaway boxes. A few chavvy lads said hello in passing. I got back to the city centre, deposited some overflowing refuse sacks and had about 30 minutes to spare. I slowly worked towards my bus stop, picking in an area filled with shoppers that also led through a market area. Lots of judgmental looks here, double takes at my lanyard particularly. I went to the nearest bin and deposited my last sack.

In total I recovered 9 full sacks of waste. As I stowed my picker into my bag and walked over to the bus stop, some of the people who had been leering at me seemed a bit miffed that they'd have to spend the journey near a lowly litter picker who stank of sweat.  What a shame. 

Let me know if you enjoyed this post as I've never done anything like this before. Cheers! 

[inmate8213]

Very interesting and relatable! The hypermasculinity and the loss of agency, responsibility and competition is a huge part of it for me.

An additional aspect that fascinate me a lot about prison is the humiliation and stigma of the inmate role. There is something about ending up at the very bottom of society and being treated with absolute zero respect, dignity and sympathy that really strikes a chord within this privileged middle-class nerd! 😅

Why does the fantasy of wearing stripes and being locked away in a cage make me hard when I know that if it were my reality I'd be fucking terrified?

Another great question!

I have had this interest since I was 14 years old. And, I and many of my friends who are also interested, have asked the same question. While I am NOT a psychologist, I have had a bit of therapy and just some good old-fashioned observations that I will share with you.

At Hampton Jail, we often laugh because the applicants (with notable exceptions) follow a similar demographic.

male, gay or bi, Caucasian or Asian, college degree (often post graduate), only or last child, small family, relative wealth, "big fish in a small pond", position of authority or control

Some of those factors can certainly be attributed to the cost of playing at Hampton, but it is almost 100% on target.

With that in mind, my therapist and I believe that the following has happened for most of us. We are constantly making decisions and choices without regard to being at work or at home. We feel responsible and are responsible to others. In an effort to "escape" that responsibility, we are attracted to an environment where the following happens:

the schedule is set for us in terms of meals, work, recreation and sleep

we make few choices about food, clothing, shelter or medical care

we crave (in the case of men) the hypermasculinity of a prison setting with the homosexual undertones

we are in an environment made up of the same sex and therefore understand each other better

there is very little competition the usual things. what competition exists would be perhaps for physique or influence (which many of us would eschew)

If you add in the development of a fetish surrounding some aspect of prison (restraints, uniforms, setting, or male on male interaction) then you have an answer.

Question about prison interests and erotic response

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[inmate8213]

Great description of the combination of filth and sterile institutional design that I love about prison!

Stuck in your cell, laying next to a toilet that stinks of piss.

[inmate8213]

We call it their warm welcome - stripped in the woods, blasted with ice water, then marched in a chaingang, chanting all the way to the facility.

By the time they arrive, they’re cold, exhausted, and perfectly behaved....

[inmate8213]

How do you end up in cell 3 during roleplay?

Ha ha ha ha!

How do you end up in the Hole in State Prison?

How do you end up in Ad Seg in the County Jail??

How do you end up in ADX Florence in the Federal System???

YOU ACT LIKE AN ASSHOLE. YOU TALK BACK. YOU BREAK RULES. YOU BRING IN CONTRABAND. YOU TRY TO ESCAPE. YOU DON'T DO YOUR ASSIGNED JOB.

Or you just are an asshole!!

Any of that will earn you time in cell #3

[inmate8213]

Curious, how‘d you roleplay a prison guard for some reason (Framed, abuse of power, actual crime etc. doesn‘t truly matter) then gets sent to the same jail/prison they worked at

We have a regular "client" who just did that. In point of fact, he does it every time he does a role play!

We arrest him while he is actively guarding and perp walk him in to becprocessed.

After a court appearance and intake, his butt was in a cell right next to the convicts he was guarding an hour before.

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In the SHU.

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Prison must be one of the most powerful equalizers. Nobody gives a f*ck about your age, class, appearance, profession, titles or other status indicators – if you break the law, you end up with the same uniform, same shaved head, same cell and same menial work assignment. And you will address the correctional officers properly, regardless of who you used to be on the outside.

Although as a sub I usually prefer everything "more than me" for the guard (older, stronger etc.), I was thinking about how humiliating should be for a 40 yo man for instance being made to call "sir" and obey a 19 yo guard - and it happens in real prisons. Agree?

It absolutely happens constantly in real prisons. Age disparity in either direction sets up potential conflict and is an amazing part of real life prison and role play!

[inmate8213]

I really like the black boots in prison. Their heaviness and thickness make me feel great! What is your opinion?

The first thing is that a convict really doesn't have a choice about wearing boots. I was simply told to put them on and get my ass to work

I can tell you I have grown used to them now and wear them nearly every day.

My favorites leave a mark in the dirt indicating my status as an Inmate and my direction of travel!!

[inmate8213]

A proper intake buzzcut really adds another layer of lost identity to the roleplay! Highly recommend!

are headshaves required at franklin county jail?

Absolutely not! Headshaves are by request only!

But they are intense and humiliating and just epic!

[inmate8213]

Whenever I see a convict road crew, it stirs something inside meI am not sure if it is the shaved head, the dirty uniform with prominent numbers, the hard labor itself, or the humiliation. Whatever it is, it's there!!

[inmate8213]

Erving Goffman describes it well in his book on Total Institutions:

"Once the inmate is stripped of his possessions, at least some replacements must be made by the establishment, but these take the form of standard issue, uniform in character and uniformly distributed. These substitute possessions are clearly marked as really belonging to the institution and in some cases are recalled at regular intervals to be, as it were, disinfected of identifications."

I absolutely love intake! The moment when you are issued prison made clothing and become just a number!

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A beautiful view to wake up to – every single morning for 10 years! 😈

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ABOUT THE SECURITY OF HANDCUFFS

It is of course of great importance that steel handcuffs and other restraints such as leg-irons are safe. Not only safe for the wearer in the sense that they may not pinch dangerously and thus constrict the blood circulation; hence the double-lock system. But also safe from the perspective of the police or the prison authorities: the absolute certainty that a handcuffed detainee or inmate can never escape from the steel bracelets that are closed around his wrists even when he is left completely unattended for a few moments.

So, first of all, they must also be strong and unbreakable. To what extent they are also regularly inspected after purchase is an interesting question, about which I have not been able to find anything. It is probably useful for each team of guards to have its entire stock of handcuffs, leg-irons and other shackles and chains checked periodically to see if they are still functioning properly.

But in any case, there are standard regulations regarding the quality of new handcuffs. On the internet I came across this short report from the US Department of Justice from 1982, containing the 'Standard for Metallic Handcuffs' of the National Institute of Justice'.

You can find the complete document on PdF here: www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GOVPUB-J28-PURL-gpo77836

It contains a good schematic illustrations of the standard handcuffs used in the States, the model with a very short chain in between.

I'll cite the most important points of its content:

In Table 1 are listed 16 possible defects in workmanship. Paragraph 4.4 states: "The handcuffs shall be free from them". I'll cite some:

Any part missing, broken, malformed. loose. or not in proper alignment.

Rivet or pin insecure or not secured neatly.

Key cannot unlock handcuff or requires undue force to do so. n. Handcuff cannot be double-locked.

Handcuff ratchet does not lock automatically with the pawl.

Any malfunctioning in the opening or closing of the handcuffs: e.g., ratchet binds or does not rotate freely.

How important are those defects? Let's look for that at paragraph 4.1

" Acceptance Criteria. The handcuffs meet the requirement of this standard if four or more of the five handcuff specimens pass all of the tests." Well, I must confess: a rather disturbingly flexible criterion. It does not enhance my trust in the U.S. Prison authorities very much!

It means that it apparently isn't a problem for them when 1 out of 5 handcuffs doesn't meet the conditions! Let's say: doesn't lock very well or at all, can't be opened after being locked, is lacking a crucial part . It means, if there is for 1 out of 5 prisoners hope for escape from cuffs, the U.S. National Institute of Justice just shrugs its shoulders.

Who of the five in the pic above is the lucky one? And who of the five in that below? In that prison van there will surely be an opportunity for him to free himself from his shackles unnoticed and then give the guard a good beating as soon as the door is unlocked after arrival..... And what will the authorities then say after that? It's all in the game?

Buit let's continue. Interesting is paragraph 4.6, about Dimensions: "Each handcuff of each pair shall have a minimum opening of 50 mm for insertion of the wrist. The inside perimeter of the handcuff shall be a minimum of 200 mm when the ratchet is engaged at the first notch entering the locking mechanism. The inside perimeter of the handcuff shall be a maximum of 165 mm when the ratchet is engaged at the last notch entering the locking mechanism. The maximum overall length of the pair of handcuffs shall be 240 mm".

I've taken a look at my brandnew Smith & Wesson belly-chain-with-side-handcuffs. In that case the opening measures exactly 50 mm. The ratchet has 19 teeth. Indeed the perimeter ranches from 165 to 200 mm. In my case, the last notch gives a nice tight - but right - fit.

Then there is paragraph 4.5 about Weight. It saus: "The weight of the pair of handcuffs shall not exceed 425 g". A minimum is not given. The pair of handcuffs I use for my leather waistbelt (see pic below) weigh some 300 g. So they are allowed, and i can't complain. And, yes, i tried: but none of my cuffs are among those 20% of failures...

Then, last but not least, there is paragraph 4.7: Mechanical Strength.

"Each pair of handcuffs shall withstand a tensile force of 2200 N (495 lbf) for a period not less than 30 s when tested in accordance with paragraphs 5.6.1 and 5.6.2. The handcuffs shall not open under load, shall show no sign of permanent distortion or fracture and shall function in a normal manner* following these tests."

Well, 2200 Newtons needed as a minimum to break the chain between the handcuffs sounds quite safe. The greatest pulling force ever measured in men was 400 Newtons - not even a fifth. And he certainly couldn't hold it for half a minute. What's your maximum?

So, alas, boy: no chance to escape from those very, very nice safe handcuffs that are already waiting for you! So now place your left wrist neatly in this cuff so we can lock it properly. After that your other wrist will follow in the next, and you will be properly secured. Don't worry!

[inmate8213]

I love how the AI managed to capture the insecurity and fear hidden under the facade of indifference! Even for hardened criminals, the prospect of prison can be intimidating as hell.

I love the idea of a prison bus transporting new convicts to the State Prison.

The forced conformity of the same shaved head, the same prison issued uniform and neatly packed into a van, is enticing to me!

The palpable fear is also both intoxicating and invigorating.

Regardless if it is deep southern state and wide stripes or a northern state with heavy woolen coat or a coastal state with prison made denims.........the concept is amazing!