The worst state prison.

[Rain Man]

Hypothetical situation: You're minding your own business, and the police bust down your door and arrest you for illegal pit bull ownership, online chatting with a teenage transsexual, or voting for Ralph Nader.

You're jailed and assigned a public defender who is planning a run for city council, so she doesn't have time to defend you. She turns you over to a summer intern from Itawamba Junior College who can never remember if 'guilty' or 'not guilty' means that you're pleading innocent. He guesses wrong, and judge accepts your plea.

The judge just had a bad day because the batteries died on the genitalia enlarger underneath his robe, so he gives you the maximum sentence of 11 years, which will be reduced to 3 if you maintain good behavior and if you'll make him a personalized license plate that reads HUNGJURIST.

Off you go to prison. What would be the state prison that would be worst in which to be incarcerated?

Since we're limited to 25 poll options, I'll enter the states in pairs. Pick the pair that includes your worst state for imprisonment, and let us know which state it is.

Poll coming, as soon as we find 12 angry men to vote on it.

[Bowser]

We need the Final Jeopardy music right about now.....

[Skip Towne]

I'm guessing Arkansas or Mississippi since they are among the poorest states.

[JOhn]

Originally Posted by Skip Towne

I'm guessing Arkansas or Mississippi since they are among the poorest states.

Wyoming would rank right up there, well it did untill the mineral money started pooring in the last couple years.

[Rain Man]

I'd have to go with Louisiana. I just imagine that their prisons would be corrupt, wet, and crawling with roaches.

[Athis]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

I'd have to go with Louisiana. I just imagine that their prisons would be corrupt, wet, and crawling with roaches.

The poll is about prisons not state capital buildings.

Whew Angola, Louisiana state prison, has to be the worst. People go in but they never come out. It is a giant farm and prisoners work from sun-up to sun-down.

[DanT]

Originally Posted by Athis

The poll is about prisons not state capital buildings.

[BIG_DADDY]

I hear Texas and Florida are really bad but I have no idea which prisons would be the worst. I imagine there are some pretty bad ones in the deep south.

[RealSNR]

The state penitentiary in Bismarck, ND doesn't have cable TV.

I'd go with North Dakota

[Ebolapox]

Mexico... errr, new mexico

-EB-

[Bowser]

California/Nevada

[chief52]

Pelican Bay State Prison in Northern California is supposed to house the worst of the worst. Hell hole...

[4th and Long]

Texas. They execute people fatser than McDonalds can whip up a cheese burger.

[Otter]

There's a prison about an hour and a 1/2 north of where I live in Lewisburg which, from what I hear, is a pretty tough place to do time. At least back in the day it was.

That's where they sent all the mafioso from New York and New Jersey when they got busted. Paulie Vario (Paulie from Goodfellas), Jimmy "the gent" Burke (that's his real name, not Jimmy Conneway like in the movie) and the rest of their crew all did time.

What does this have to do with your poll you ask...I have no idea.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Otter

There's a prison about an hour and a 1/2 north of where I live in Lewisburg which, from what I hear, is a pretty tough place to do time. At least back in the day it was.

That's where they sent all the mafioso from New York and New Jersey when they got busted. Paulie Vario (Paulie from Goodfellas), Jimmy "the gent" Burke (that's his real name, not Jimmy Conneway like in the movie) and the rest of their crew all did time.

What does this have to do with your poll you ask...I have no idea.

Those guys probably aren't going to marry you in prison, though. Heck, they might even give you a job when you get out.

I'd think it'd be worse to be in a prison where most of the people are uneducated, dimwitted thugs. (Why did junior high school just flash into my mind?)