Intoduction
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Hi Steve!
If you are interested I can get you the name and address of some folks
using a toaster equipped Amiga at the Fremont Correctional facility in
Canon City, Colorado. I don't know if they are on-line or not so It would
be a U.S. Mail address.
I have kindof a funny story, at least I think it is funny, about that
system. For you this is probably old hat, but I haven't spent that much
time around prisoners. 🙂
I installed this system at the facility there, it was in a medium
security type prison where the prisoners can walk around inside the
facility more or less as they please. (Canon City has about 4-5 prisons
where some are more secure, some less, some for women, etc.) Anyway, I
have this habit of taking out my wallet when I get to work because I don't
like it banging around in my slacks. So, at the install, In front of 5-10
inmates in their "video production dept" I throw my wallet and my car keys
in my briefcase. Now I didn't realize that I would be going out for a
cigarette, etc., leaving my briefcase in the production room while inmates
were in there. Anyway, by the time I realized that I had made a mistake
it was pretty much to late to do anything about it. I mean it would look
pretty bad, my turning around and pulling my wallet/keys right back out.
Anyway, nothing bad happened, my wallet, my keys, my money etc., stayed
right there… even when there were many times when the inmates were
totally unsupervised and alone.
-John
John,
Since your story had a happy ending its funny. Things like that happen
more often than you might imagine but usually the supervising officer catches
those type of mistakes. I gather from your message that your job entails
installing Video systems (Toaster Dealer?). I assume Fremont is using their
studio as a vocational education type program?
At Nassau County Correctional Center we don't use the studio for Vocational
Training because Inmates sentenced to more than a year of time are transfered
to the New York State Prisons. So our inmates are either short timers or
awaiting trial. We do use our studio for doing remotes for the various News
and Tabloid TV shows since we recently had an influx of "News Worthy High
Profile" inmates (Joey Buttafuco, Amy Fisher, Joel Rifkin, Colin Ferguson
etc..). We bring the inmates into our studio and the shows do a Satalite link
remote.
I would like a contact name and address for Freemont if it is not too much
trouble and a phone number if possible. Better yet why don't you try to get
them to sign on to this most excellent forum?
By the way, How did you feel the first time you heard those big steel gates
slam behind you and close you off to the outside world? That usually blows
most peoples minds. 🙂
Thanks for the reply hope to hear from you soon and keep up the good work
with the forum.
Steve Biegler
HouseBoat Studios "Sailin' on AutoPilot"