(October 12, 2017 at 11:58 am)Lutrinae Wrote:(October 12, 2017 at 11:52 am)vorlon13 Wrote: CIJS
Your life reminds me of a Stonewall era gay film.
There was one little omission in all the prison records I found on my old acquaintance. Went back over them today and found it!
If I hadn't looked at his DL back in the day I'd have never found him now. His DL had his real name, and I remembered it. When I knew him, everyone used a nickname. I went back over the prison records and finally found a list of aliases. And there it is. His nickname.
Added up his time served and his age and when he died. Managed to do 1/2 his (short) life in prison. And man, what a time he had in prison. They wanted him to work, and he did, virtually every prison job there is. Some stints were for just a few days, none over a couple of months. He wasn't suited to work, just infractions and discipline.
When I knew him he made his money from selling drugs to underwrite his drug use. Looks like that business plan didn't play out very well, I suspect his "overhead" is what the problem was. Couldn't make enough selling drugs to pay for the drugs he used, he resorted to crime to bump up his bottom line to meet expenses.
And he wasn't very good at crime either; kept getting caught. I suspect the necessary effort to be an efficient criminal was too much like work to appeal to him, despite the (to me at least) obvious problem of maintaining a very serious drug problem while incarcerated. One might think he'd have found the motivation to be a 'better' criminal from that, but it didn't play out that way.
Wonder how his kid turned out? Helluva stacked deck against a 'normal' life, but not that uncommon these days regardless.
Sad, just sad. I suppose if he were 35 years younger he'd be another opiate death in this time frame. Not better, nor worse, just different.
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.