Ok, I want you all to look at these photos and try and guess what this building is before finding out the shocking truth. Try and remember what you thought it was before you found out and tell me in the comment box! (We found this via e-mail.)
New Cook County Correctional Center, Chicago , Illinois
( I guess if I ever break the law, I'd better do it in Illinois !
Homeless people should have it so good! Once again the taxpayer gets stung.
It also shows that in most cases the quality of life for prisoners has improved considerably from what you might expect. And I always thought prison was for punishment.!!!!!
Just in case you ever get these two environments mixed up, this comparison chart should make things a little bit clearer:
| @ PRISON
You spend most of your time in a 10X10 cell | @ WORK
You spend most of your time in a 6X6 cubicle |
| @ PRISON
You get three fully paid for meals a day | @ WORK
You get a break for one meal, and you have to pay for it |
| @ PRISON
For good behavior, you get time off | @ WORK
For good behavior, you get more work |
| @ PRISON
The guard locks and unlocks all the doors for you | @ WORK
You must carry a security card and open all the doors yourself |
| @ PRISON
You can watch TV and play games | @ WORK
You could get fired for watching
TV and playing games |
| @ PRISON
You get your own toilet | @ WORK
You have to share the toilet with
people who pee on the seat |
| @ PRISON
They allow your family and friends to visit | @ WORK
You aren't even supposed
to speak to your family |
| @ PRISON
All expenses are paid by the taxpayers with no work required on your part | @ WORK
You must pay all your expenses to go to work, and they deduct taxes from your salary to pay for prisoners |
| @ PRISON
You spend most of your life inside bars wanting to get out | @ WORK
You spend most of your time wanting to get out and go inside bars |
| @ PRISON
You must deal with sadistic wardens | @ WORK
They are called managers / Supervisor |
| THERE IS SOMETHING SERIOUSLY WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE. |
Good heavens, what is this world coming to!
Uhh.....Ok this is too embarrasing I don't think I'm going to post it. LOL! Ok it was a WILD guess! At first I thought: CAR STRUCTURE! Next I thought: A BIG FANCY HOTEL! Next: EXPENSZE APARTMENTS! NEXT: A FUN PLACE! *Hannah and danny look at all pictures and then look at eachother. say at the same time:* "LET'S GO TO JAIL!" LOL! THAT IS PRETTY SAD!
ReplyDeleteDear Amanda,
ReplyDeleteThis post caught my eye because I recently listened to a CD with the conversion story of Russell Ford, an Alabama prisoner who converted to the Catholic Faith while in prison and is now a leader in prison ministry and evangelization. His story is intensely powerful and shares some of the troubling details of prison life. And while reading further on him online, I read some appalling firsthand descriptions of a prisoner's environment.
I encourage you and your readers to visit this web page by copying the address into your browser:
www.secondexodus.com/html/russford/alabamaprisonlife2.htm
The fact that I had just researched the above made it hard for me to believe that these photos are really a U.S. prison. So I searched "New Cook County Correctional Center" and quickly learned that those photos are actually of a court building and prison in Austria. According to snopes.com and urbanlegend.about.com (two reliable resources for checking on supposed information), the photos have been circulating via email the last several months decrying the use of our tax dollars, when in fact this is not the case. As I know nothing of Austria's system or laws, I will not propose to pass judgment on the building of this prison. There is, however, no cause for Americans to be up-in-arms about their tax dollars going to it.
As to that "comparison list", I believe I've seen it before... but it seems to me unfitting for people of good will to make such complaints. I doubt there is any hardworking free man who would rather be behind bars, even if it is hypothetically "easier". Prisoners need our prayers and compassion, not our ridicule. The most valued American right and ideal is freedom. That freedom is justly forfeited by one who defies the law. The fact that a prisoner has lost his freedom should be punishment enough for him: we don't need to top it with sub-human conditions.
Now, just because I got on a soapbox here, please don't think I am upset with you, dear goddaughter. :) The subject of your post simply gave me the opportunity to share some recent knowledge and thoughts. I hope they will challenge you and your readers toward the most Christ-like response to this topic.
I will offer a gentle word of advice, though... more often than not, those "can you believe this?" emails that we all get contain misinformation that can be stopped and corrected if we take about one minute to look it up online. This saves us and others from operating on untruth (however small!).
Affectionately,
Your Fairy Godmother
Phile 4:8
It doesn't even look like a jail. At first glance it would probably look like an office building.
ReplyDeleteI thought hotel at first and then as I scrolled down I thought maybe a house...
ReplyDeleteMy goodness!
I've been in jails and prisons before, but never one this posh. Yet, I had only looked at about the first 3 or 4 photos when I thought, "It looks like a prison." By the time I got to the bottom of the post I was LOL.
ReplyDeleteActually, now that I think about it, I did think "That looks like a prison" when I saw the bars on the windows...Keep in mind that these men have no freedom. Would we really want to have our freedom taken away just to live in a cool looking building?
ReplyDeleteBtw, if you notice in the picture of the single apartment, it really isn't that big.
Fairy Godmother ~ I actually only wrote the sentances before the photos, and the very lasy one. Everything else was the e-mail.
ReplyDeleteThank you though, for the corrections. Still, those are some neat photos! For a jail, any ways.
@ Fishie ~ You're alive!!!!!! Whohoo!
Wow, so many comments... I should always do controversial and true/not true posts... if only to see "7 comments" waiting on my dashboard!
Wow, I actually thought it was a office building, but then when I saw the bars on the windows I thought it was a prison, but couldn't believe it!!!
ReplyDeleteWow, thanks for sharing,
Jo March
Amanda, just to clarify... I knew that the whole "comparison" chart was from the email too (meaning I knew you didn't write it). :)
ReplyDeleteP.S. I noticed that the web link I tried to share was cut off, so here is it again:
ReplyDeletewww.secondexodus.com/html/russford/alabamaprisonlife2.htm
(Copy and paste into your browser)