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Know anybody in prison in the USA?

04:39 / 06.07.05

I'm researching an A&E project. We're looking for folks incarcerated in Tri-State area prisons who are due to be released during the first two weeks of August. Longer incarcerations preferred. Candidates must be able to talk about themeselves on camera. The show will follow two individuals (different locations) for their 1st 24 hours after release. If you know of somebody who might fit this bill (or know someone who knows someone), email me at:

mark@ssprods.com

I know this is a oddcrazy request, but having hit up all manner of support organizations and forums, I thought it would be fun to turn to you lot and shake the tree.

Any and all prison stories welcome on this thread. I'd tell the one about my bank robbing (no guns) freind who escaped his gigs via bicycle, but my eyes are screaming and dry, so maybe tomorrow...

10:55 / 06.07.05

Hey, is your bud the guy who used to change into the Lance Armstrong getup and bicycle away at a yuppyly pace while the cops would just go right by him? Read about a guy like that in some magazine a year or two ago. Oh, and can I do voiceovers on your documentary?

03:01 / 07.07.05

No, this guy hid in the bushes (more like a grove of bushes, really) next to the bank parking lot when the coppers finally got to a bank in handy time. Amazingly enough, they DID NOT THINK TO LOOK THERE. Forty minutes later, the initial fury of the police's busybee activity had subsided. Then a brightly colored ball bounces into the bushes, having bounded in from the school playground on the other side of the bush grove. A kid wanders in after it and is soon screaming "the bank robber's in the bushes! The bank robber's in the bushes!"

Five years in jail thanks to the family lawyer, who was, unbeknoenst to all, a drunk and an incompetant. My freind should have spent his sentance at lower key prisons, but instead he went to hardcore ones. He is fine and dandy nowadays.

03:02 / 07.07.05

And we won't be using narration. Everything is told by the cons and a few experts.