Mentality
Back when I was in prison*, one trend shared by all the inmates was that nothing was their fault. Ever. There were always these explanations that seemed perfectly reasonable (to the inmates) about precisely why they committed some sort of heinous crime. And it always involved blaming someone else. Kinda like how New Jersey blames Pennsylvania for its gun crime.
* I worked there. I was not an inmate. But I always like to start stories that way for shock value.
March 6th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
“Back when I was in prison*, one trend shared by all the inmates was that nothing was their fault. Ever.”
I know what you mean, I’ve never been in as a “guest”, but I’ve known quite a few ex-cons, and the one thing they seem to have in common is that they are all “victims of society”.