Welshboy Rant 7 ( Christmas Message)

Well it's all most Christmas again, all I want to do is send all my readers of my little blog a wish for a Merry Christmas and a safe new year. I want you to think of all the bad boys locked up in their cells over the holidays. Will Santa be bringing them any gifts over the Christmas weekend. Each inmate will get a little gift as  in sweets and a better dinner on Christmas Day and thats it.
I will take a week off now and I will see you all in the new year.

Drug Gang Sentenced

Drugs gang from Newport South Wales are sentenced for a number of years. I wonder if Santa will be leaving these bad boys  some gifts this Christmas?.

Prison Farm Images.

Here are some inmages taken from the ( 1932) film " I am a fugitive from a chain gang" this shows what the prison farm was like in the 30's and 40's in the USA. This will also be the the next film I will review. Some time in the new year.

The Prison Farm.

The Prison Farm

In the 30's and 40's  USA. The prison farms were in a lot of use. Inmates were sent to these farms for hard labor, working on the farm's, road work and the famous chain gang. As part of the prisom farm the inmates worked six days per week with only Sunday's off. They did have three meals a day.The lunch meal is taken out on the road or farm as part of their work detale. The inmates are housed in a dorm room setting. In different states it was a lot harder to do your time. Also in some states the inmates are dressed in the Black and White striped clothes as seen in the (1932) film " I am a fugitive from a chain gang".

   

The Big House (1930) Clip

I wanted to show the 1930 trailer for this film but could not find it so here is a short clip of the film.

The Big House (1930) Stills

Stills taken from the film.

The Big House ( 1930) Review.

The Big House (1930)

The Big House one of the first and the best of the prison movies of the 30's and a knock out at the 1930 box office. Chester Morris tough forceful performance was matched by Wallace Beery's as a condemned convict and Robert Montgomery was great as the cowardly  informer. MGM were not known for their tough gritty films as Warner Bro's were, so it's great that this film ever got made at all. But at time of the films release their was big talk as to how they would tackle crime in the USA.  

The Big House (1930)

The prison movie from MGM more about this movie the the coming weeks.

Brothers Mug Shots

Michigan brothers Jeffery and Crag Julian These are their county jail mug shots after being arrested on the charge of murder. The case took over two years to get to trail. Over the next few months I will be posting the different stages of these boys trail in photo form.

Welshboy Rant 6

What should an inmate have in his cell?. I think it should be just the basic things.

1 Bible

1 Shaving Mug

1 Disposable Razor, every three days to be changed.

1 Bed, Bedding to change once a week.

1 Sink + Toilet.

Now that should be it, we hear in the news that inmates are getting all kinds of things in their cells, even mobile phones were they can call out for take away food that is ( in open prisons). But these things have to be stopped.

Stone Wall Mug Shots

So many Mug Shots taken in the US are shot with a brick wall as the back ground as seen here in these two mug shots

Lockdown County Jail

Lockdown
(Food for County Jail Inmates)

When the County Jail is on lockdown their is no movement  anywhere by the inmates, they don't get any visits and the kitchen is not used. But the inmates still need to be fed. So the guards make sandwiches and cold drinks, the guards passes  around these packed lunches. The most these lockdowns go on for is three days . But they do seem to have a lot of lockdowns over the space of a year. Where they look in the cells of the inmates for drugs and other contraband items.

Escape From A UK Prison

Over the last few years their have been a few escapes from the prison van sweat box. Here is a video taken from inside the prison van as the escape is in progress. In the video you can see that the inmates were uncuffed as they leave their cells. Were they cuffed sitting in the cell for the journey? On  these journey's their is a driver and also a guard that sits in the back with the prisoners in the walk way out side the cell doors.

British Prison Vans

These vans are known as "The Sweat Box" here are two photos to show how they look each window is in fact a  very small holding cell, just the room for one man to sit in. If he is a tall man over 6 ft then he's  knee's are pressed up to the door of the cell. The van's can range from a two door cell up to a twelve door cell van. These van's are used to take inmates  from prison to prison and from court to prison/ Each van has one driver and  one guard that sits out side the little walk way  that runs the length of the van. In the past their has been a number of escapes from these vans. As it is the weakest  link in the operation.  I will talk more about one of these escapes in more detail later on.  

Old style Mug Shots

I love these old style mug shots, Their is something about Black and white photos. Just love the look.

Prison to Prison Transfer Florida State.

After an inmate is sentenced to prison time, They are taken to a holding prison were they are assessed for mental and the safety to others. At the holding prison they are housed here for about two weeks where they do go through all these tests. Then they are moved on to a different prison, these prisons have one of five levels of security. Each week inmates are moved around prison to prison on a Tusday and Thursday, they are moved in big prison buses or small vans that can fit one to five inmates at a time. These buses and vans will be on the move from 6am so it's an early call for these bad boys.

Nicholas Sheley One day in court

Looking at one day of an inmates day in court. Here we see Nicholas Sheley as he arrives for a day in court, one day of many. He arrives in a jail van wearing a yellow jumpsuit, cuffs and shackles in place. He will be placed in a cell for most of the day. He will have a Boxed lunch sent down to the cells. A Boxed lunch will have in it, sandwiches, cake. and cold drink., after a full day at the court he will be taken back to the jail house.    

Plan of Inmates Cell

This is a cell at a Super Max Prison in Brazil. Looks well planed out. With no way an inmate can make a escape, But I am shore one day one will.

Nicholas Sheley Mug Shots

 The many Mug Shots of Nicholas Sheley.

Made By Inmates

When inmates are in jail they do a lot of work for the community. Only low risk or if they are coming to the end of their sentences. They work with dogs for the blind, the inmates train the dogs over a few months. Also inmates make toys for children from poor backgrounds. They make furniture for office's, school's and homes. These jobs also look on an inmates record too. 

Super Max Visiting Order

Here I want to talk about how a Super Max inmate gets a visit. Most inmates that are housed in a Super Max are their for being bad boys. They are put their for killing other inmates, fighting and also an escape risk.
Now these inmates still can have visits, but they do have to be put on a list that each person is looked into, their past and their police record. Also each visitor will have to be part of the inmates family. They then send of a form to the visitor for the day they want to come. All visits will be from behind thick glass, with the use of a phone that they can be able to talk to each other. Their is also a time limit on the visit too, up to two hours per visit.
The inmates still have to go through a strip search before and also after each visit. Their is also a guard that will also sit in on the visit too.

The Use Of Cuffs And Shakles.

I wanted to post this little video to show how the law use cuffs and shakles to move suspects  and inmates around. This could be in jail, prison, court or just to be moved to a car or prison van.

Welshboy Rant 5

Just been watching the news that is of the 5/8/14. It seems a parole hearing of two murders that want to be placed in an open prison has been making a lot of fuss. The inmates are Michael Brown and Gary Humpton. Well the family of the victim that the two men killed made a plea to the judge not for them to be moved at all. I don't know how many times they have asked to be moved. The vicims family was not in court they read their plea by video link. They then over hear the judge say that their views would make no difference in what would happen to the pair, and if they should move to an open prison or not. A mike was left on so the faimly could hear all that was going on in the court room.
 
 So if that is the case why have the family make their views known to the review board?. I think the families should be able to have a say in what happen's to the men that killed their loved ones. Just to put the views  out their so the court know how  they feel. I know that this happen's all the time at parole reviews in the USA.. The courts should let the families know what is going to happen at all times. 

Super Max Prison Russia

I have been looking a lot at the inmates Super Max Prisons from around the world in these few photos I have posted, they are from the Super Max Prison The Black Dolphin in Russia. Where the inmates are locked in their cells 23 hours per day. There is also no canteen for the inmates to go to. They get all their meals  in their cells, and what I have read is that at this prison they only get chicken soup, that's it. I have  seen a  number of small films about the Russian prisons and their seems to be a few levels that an inmate can be housed in. In the last few years their is one prison that is famous around the world The Black Dolphin Prison have had a few film crews showing what an inmates life is like at this prison, and at the time of writing not one inmate has escaped from their.

In a later post I will go into more depth about the working of this Super Max Prison in Russia over 700 inmates are housed their. The weather is brutal in this part of the world were the winters are very cold, its know wonder their have been no escapes.

Bad Boys On Show

Just a great set of Bad Boys from different parts of the UK. I love the one at the top of this gallery, fresh from getting arrested. With all their cuts and bruises on show, love it.