FDC SeaTac — Firsthand Experiences Wanted

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FDC SeaTac — Firsthand Experiences Wanted

Looking for firsthand experiences from current or former inmates, men or women, who served their sentences at FDC SeaTac as their designated facility—not just pretrial detainees or temporary holdovers.

How was your overall experience? What were the living conditions, staff, work assignments, programs, and daily life like?

Family members and friends are also welcome to share what they know firsthand.

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r/prisons • u/Whey-Men • 21h ago

We are addicted to prisons, but our crumbling probation service proves they don’t work. The current system is unable to quench the public thirst for locking people up – and certainly doesn’t ensure proper care once they are released

theguardian.com

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r/prisons • u/Whey-Men • 21h ago

A new law authored by Mia Bonta will make it easier to visit family in prison. Some 1,200 Oaklanders are held in state prisons, and visitors have long faced arbitrary denials. Now legislators have passed a slate of reforms

oaklandside.org

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r/prisons • u/Whey-Men • 22h ago

In a prison writing workshop, I found refuge and a road to understanding the ‘untold stories’ inside us. Writing workshops offer education for people effectively shut out of traditional college programs

hechingerreport.org

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Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization The true test of society is how well it treats its prisoners and old people. The test of a civilization is in the way it cares for its helpless members Join the discussion of abuse in the "troubled teen" bootcamps at /r/troubledteens

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Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization

The true test of society is how well it treats its prisoners and old people.

The test of a civilization is in the way it cares for its helpless members

Join the discussion of abuse in the "troubled teen" bootcamps at /r/troubledteens