Day 12
We visited the state penitentiary today and it was a sight that I never imagined. When watching movies and television shows about prisons it gives you a different prospective then what I experienced today at Parchman prison. When we arrived to the prison we were told to hide all electronic devises and money wallets and all under the bus and when we got into the visitation area we were full body searched my guards. While in the visitation area one of the prisoners spoke to us. He told us his crime and basically what he regretted doing. His story was appealing but it didn’t really strike me until he told me that he had a son that plays football and is doing great but he never seen him play a down. I felt sorry in a way but in other ways it was kind of hard to have simply for someone that committed a crime. I think that he has learned his lesson but who am I to say so. His whole speech he was telling us the reasons why you do not want to come to prison but it was one reason that I experienced for myself made me want not to ever come to prison. The heat made me make up mind to never come to prison. In the prison sell the inmates have no air condition and it’s like 80 or more people in one big hot room in the heart of the summer with no air conditioning. I found parchman to be an interesting experience but I left there with a lot of questions marks about how the prison was ran and why there were so many women and the construction of the prison.