I'm
a member of this Facebook group, is that how you say it? You know, a
group of like-minded individuals all promoting the same idea in this
particular group focuses on Boise, Idaho history and specifically
images of old-time Boise. This weekend the moderator and host of this
Facebook group put up a number of images of the Idaho State
penitentiary. I hadn't thought of Idaho State penitentiary in a long
time. In fact is a little disjointed because I couldn't quite
remember where the facility was which is weird because I grew up
knowing exactly where the penitentiary was. The penitentiary is in
South Boise down by the river. It seems like we used to go close to
it when we go on our hikes up to the Table Rock. The luckily because
of groups like “History of Boise Idaho 1863 to the Present” I was
able to orient myself to know exactly where the old place was. I did
further searches in a macabre sort of way I don't know of macabre is
the right word may be voyeuristic might be more accurate.
Idaho
State penitentiary, of course has its own website and it's very
complex. I was kind of amazed. I don't know why the website shocked
me as much as it did but there it was out in open for anyone to
explore not only the prison itself but the inmates, their names,
their offenses, the sentences and even their prison numbers. Having
this much information at my fingertips my mind even twisted further
on to see if my friend/acquaintance Bruce was listed. (For more
information on my friend Bruce type in the name in the search box in
the upper left-hand corner of this page. You'll see two or three
postings regarding Bruce. But there he was, not only his name, his
offense, his sentence even when he would come up for paroles in such.
Maybe I just want to How strange is that? Is coming up for first
option for parole in for five years somewhere in the 2020s. I'm sure
eventually he will cycle through the system and end up back in the
community. Strange. I know when I visited with my one friend who was
as close to Bruce as some folks can ever could get in he had pretty
much written Bruce off which she gave me permission to do the same
which I guess I did. But for some reason today as I thought about the
information I and covered this weekend. The website even gave the
address and information on how to send letters into the inmates of
the facility. I could do that I know how important this would be in
the long run. It's a little scary for me to do to be honest but I
think that what happened if it'd been me, I had in a moment of
passion made a horrible horrible mistake and suffer the consequence
of incarceration? I mean I somewhat feel forgotten now as things go
by people who like me what if all these people chose to hate me for
the bad choices that I made? I'm not trying to justify anything I'm
just saying it would just be hard to be a non-thought to be totally
invalid.
So
I'm thinking about it. Maybe I'll write a post card since that's the
best written “currency” in the penal system. In will be the
consequences? I don't know. But it's something I keep coming back
tofor one reason or another. Maybe I just want no if I have the
social kahuna's pull something like that off…
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