What is it like to spend your birthday in prison?

As with any holiday or special time you would typically spend with friends and family it is incredibly depressing. When inside holidays mean no mail delivery. Mail is typically your only contact with the free world. If someone sends you a birthday card, unless they planned a week ahead it will usually be late. read more

Never been to prison but, spent 6 weeks in county jail which included, thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Christmas day, new-years eve and day, and yes, my stupid birthday No difference really. It sucked yes, nobody gave a rats ass true, but no damned different than how my stupid birthday is any and every other year anyway. read more

When you come out of the visiting room or off the phone, the mind then plays over what you have said to your partner like a form of torture. Carl said: ‘I had a girlfriend the whole time. It helps and it doesn’t help. read more

In fact, I bet many a vengeful prison guard has walked by a cell and screamed out "HAPPY BIRTHDAY, VINNY!" just to get a guy beaten to death in the yard. That happens way more often than a kind-hearted guard passing you a bottle of keistered hooch and whispering a quiet, "Happy Birthday, old Bonesaw" to you without anyone noticing. read more