feel free to share how tough place it is.

What im curious:
How long you need to sit until you get first holidays (free weekend for example and you come back at sunday)? Here it depends, first timer usually within month but depends about crime.
How long you need to sit if you get lifetime (murder etc)? here its minium 12 years, avarage being about 14,5 years, longest serial killer have been around 22 year.
Can you have phone / laptop or just tv? here it depends, some can have both. but hard to get phone.
Can you work/study outside of prison? Here yes, you just log out and come back after work
Do you get salary if you work while sitting sentence? Here yes, salarys are not good tho, probably about 10 euros (12 dollars) per hour or something.

I can start, here where im now (in Finland europa) my friend did some bad things (2x drugs charge, two normal abuses, one aggravated assault, two robberys and there was some more but i dont know english name or them)
he/she got 2 year 8 month jail, and as first timer he/she must sit atleast half of it so 1 year 4 month but he/she can get into controlled-freedom few months before that so about 1 year.
This was first weekend and i were visiting his/her and i think it was not THAT bad, obviously its shit but we did some live-streams from cell (asking mods if i can share it) so you could see how it looks there. Food was good, we made pizza at saturday and watched some netflix from phone, sadly laptops are not allowed. Also drugs/alcohol obviously not allowed and all things what i did bring there like coca cola etc were checked. Next weekend im busy but we did plan that after that weekend he/she come visit in my home for weekend. In monday to friday they can go out of jail only between 8am to 4 pm if they work or go school.

i show some pictures from google, note these are not taken by me but it definetly shows how tough it is. This is from city called Vilppula Finland. There is mostly first timers and good inmates with good reputation but also some people does serve life sentence.







This post was edited by do_NaUKI on Mar 29 2026 07:44am

Big foreheads.

Vacations


Public hangings where I'm from

It's not as nice as that but it also wasn't really to bad watch tv read books play cards and eat ramen noodles in ways you would not think possible on the outside.

not reading that

but you goto prision and do your time thats how it works

Free food, free healthcare, roof over your head.
To my dismay.

Forced labor in the select areas of their choosing would be my option.
Welding, construction, computer work, or basically anything that can good at something for when they come out.

Imagine you had 20 years in prison to weld, you come out a master.

This post was edited by lolkggz on Mar 29 2026 02:47pm

Can also go to college in some prisons. I think it’s an option in all federal prisons and select state prisons

This post was edited by Abyzma on Mar 29 2026 03:06pm

We had a choice if we wanted to work jobs but getting one meant going outside so most took them the pay was 75 cents per day to clean parks and pick up trash.

well i think vacations make inmates more happy, but yea i kinda agree that killers should not get vacations as easily as others.
another weird thing is that "first timer" bonus, which reduces all sentences to half, resets after x amount of time depending on crime, for example if rape happens now and sentence is usually 2-5 year and you sit half of it, get out of prison, its just 5 years and then you are again "first timer" if you go to jail again. Here is some extreme cases where same guy have killed three people and every time he was "first timer". If i remember right one case he did kill man in 1991 as first timer, were in jail half of his sentence, killed another at 2006 and was again first timer and latest was like 2018 and he was first timer third time and got i believe 10 year sentence but first timer sit just half so he did sit actually 4,5 year because 6 month before done you can get out as supervised probation and he got released in late 2022.