Amy - possibly an interesting blog item for you?

Misandry in western countries

There is a problem with the press coverage of crime in the US, which you'll never appreciate and possibly not admit unless it impacts you personally.

News agents will gleefully put your picture all over the air upon your arrest, but say nothing if you are acquitted - because the arrest of a criminal sells Kleenex, and an acquittal means a mistake or several were made.

Do try to remember the recent tendency to put teenagers in jail for life as sex offenders for underage experimentation, and be consistent when you call for justice: act as though you are the accused, because the law gets modified constantly, and it applies to you, too.

C'mon, Amy, give the guy a break. Even a convict needs someone to love. You could be like the prison's answer to match.com and do categories like armed robbery is ok, but embezzlement skeeves me. I know of a woman through a friend who met a man in jail while visiting her brother in jail and wouldn't you know it but they are soul mates. I'd laugh it it weren't so scary and so pathetic.

But if he's in prison, at least you'll know where he is, and he won't be asking for kitchen passes.

I worked in a juvenile state prison for 8 years.
Three of our female staff actually ended up in relationship with these kids. All 3 women were attractive, all 3 had University educations and all 3 were married.

We also had a lot of young women come to visit these guys, send them nude pictures in the mail etc...

Richard Ramirez the infamous Night Stalker/ serial killer has always had plenty of women pursuing him whether in the courtroom or after his incarceration.

I suppose it is the perfect relationship for a woman who has trust issues because of her last 5 cheating boyfriends. It just creeps me out that there are women who are in love and marry these guys. Honestly, I think the type of woman that marries a prisoner is a seriously disturbed individual who could never have a healthy relationship. She certainly couldn't make a day to day relationship work and thus takes the prisoner route because it's so easy to romanticize your "relationship." Just my $.02.

This goes part and parcel with good guys finishing last. It's one of those old truisms that you can debate a lot about... But, it would be the other side of the coin from women who just can't leave badboys alone. You put convicts at the end of the badboy scale, and they seem to attract some attention. Not only because they are more interesting than boring old Mr. Normal, but they have that aire of needing someone to help them change... Added to the ones that are sociopath enough to be really smooth...

it's enough to start a fire in some places.

...this guy claims, 1. he's innocent....

A while back, I read an interview with a prison warden who told the interviewer that his prison was full of innocent men. Not a guilty one in the place...if you ask them.

Dalrymple had a good article on prisoners who claim they are in prison for circumstances beyond their control. At least three stabbers told him, "the knife went in."

http://www.city-journal.org/article01.php?aid=1371

There was a beautiful anecdote from this interview, talking about the modern belief that that the worst thing a person can do is *NOT* express themselves. The psychiatrist is talking told by one of his patients in prison: "Doctor, I had to kill my girlfriend... If not, I don't know what I would have done!"

"Three of our female staff actually ended up in relationship with these kids. All 3 women were attractive, all 3 had University educations and all 3 were married."

Yes, but the ardent, undiluted focus of these young (and unwillingly celibate) men--who have no other outlet or options--on those particular women must have been quite a heady drug for a woman who, outside of work, actually had to deal with normal men who did not similarly obsess about them.

The fact that each gal could then return home to the stability and comfort of a standard relationship likely only made it more likely, not less, that these gals would seek the drama and romance (i.e., endorphin shot) of the young man's attention.