1/9/2012 2:41:16 PM
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I was in ERC in 2010 before they took out two for one sentence! I was in erc for four days and then they shipped me to fort. I didn't want to go, cuz my ex was visiting me with my girl. But they don't care, they just want us out of their face. I stayed in jail 60 days, two for one, actually done four months. It was my first time in jail and convicted. Have no criminal record! I ended up in jail in 2011 May, on possession of cocaine and brench right away I plead out, got 60 days, spending my time. I had problems with my boyfriend's ex's. I try be nice, not talking about him to her and being a good person, but her being childless, trying to fight me.
She is a 21 year old and I am a 36 year old! Girls in jail are great with me, said if she tried anything on me, they would back me up. Damn, I miss them and they kept their word. Love you galz.
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1/6/2012 11:49:59 AM
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I have spent some time in the ERC. This place is crooked. SOME guards, not all, are very crooked. I was always on units 4 a or b. To all those natives that think you are all that, think again, you are a nobody. Like some had said, you will only fight if you have 10 other natives helping you. You people are so gutless it's pathetic. If someone stood up to you, you would back down and come back with your passe, or you would fight and of course LOSE, then come back with 10 others.
The guards at the remand center, my experience was that if you treat them with respect they in return will give you respect. There are with the exception some guards that will pack for the inmates, and turn their heads if a fight occurs, and of course just be an asshole because we are cons and you are guards. I have changed my life around completely (I have done a 360). I think, in general, the way the remand center in run is ok, but I wish some things would change. I feel the jail should be less lenient, absolutely no tv, no canteen, and only phone calls to your lawyer. How would they know if the calls were to lawyers? THEY LISTEN IN TO ALL CALLS. You want to commit a crime then you should be punished. Why am I saying this? As it stands we are guilty until proven innocent, so then put in to place these suggestions. Maybe people will think twice about committing a crime, or not wanting to go back to jail.
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I was in CRC unit 45 cell 6. And although my time was short, only a month, it was enough. 22hrs a day, stuck in a box. CRC was triple bunking all over the place and I was to be no exception. My cellies were cool and my neighbor, Q, was a good guy to have on your back. I often wonder if those guys made it out.
In CRC the guards had their moments but were, all in all, pretty tolerable. On occassion they were dicks, though.
My first week I slept on concrete and used my shoes as a pillow. I'd lay on my coveralls with no blanket and wrap my t-shirt around my shoes. And upon asking when I'd get a bed or a mattress, I was often met with deaf ears. A couple of the other inmates lobbied on my behalf so it was evident that friends could be made there. But rather than get really social, I flew under the radar and with the exception of a single fight, had no problems. I don't however plan on ever returning. But if I do, I won't be there for long...
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There's some guards at ERC who just do their jobs and that's all well and good, I know if I end up in remand I've got to expect a certain amount of structure and discipline.
However, guards in ERC are extremely corrupt.
They "accidentally" unlock cell doors for inmates to fight each other when they know the unit is ready to explode. They beat inmates and bully inmates like a gang, for no reason, often beatings are administered if an inmate wont verbally cowtow to them (i.e. keeping your mouth shut when a guard's demanding a cowtow response)
I got into a lot of fights in ERC. I spent most of my time in 23hr lockup on 6C and 6D back when they were the high risk units and then also in the hole on the fifth floor. Yes there's a culture of violence in ERC, it's very bad and often you do have to defend yourself. My hand was broken 10-11 times over the course of one of my extended visits there. The guards refused to let the nurse look at my hand, refused to send me to the hospital, and my bones were flopping around. Now the bones in my hand healed in a 40 degree deformed shape.
Also when one of my toes was dislocated during the course of a riot on the 4th floor they refused to let a nurse look at it, I actually had to pop it back in myself. It hurt like a !@#$%.
They would send inmates who were hiding in general pop to my cell and then leak info onto the unit about that person's bad beefs.. and of course if I'm stuck in a cell with a skinner you know what's going to happen. Of course they caught a bad one. At first it seems like they're pulling a solid for you but after a while it gets pretty tiresome to always be the "go-to" guy for administering social justice.
The guards ogle your girlfriends's pics in the bubble if you get pics from your girlfriend.
ERC is known to be the roughest remand in Canada for good reason, the guards create many of the issues that lead to a constant atmosphere of hostility.
To the guards who visit this page who work at ERC.. if you're one of the guards who plays by the book and just does your job, good job.
Hopefully you're not one of the rest of the goofs who abuse their position to persecute people who are not even convicted yet...
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9/12/2011 12:04:23 AM
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UNLESS YOU ARE A GANG PUNK,THE WORSE THING ABOUT REMAND ( and prisons ) are these gang members.They are 10x worse humans to have to be around than the guards.They treat others like crap for no reason.
ALL REGULAR INMATES EVERYWHERE HATE THESE LOW-LIFE GANG MEMBERS BUT JUST CANT SAY SO CAUSE THEY WILL GET GANG JUMPED BY THE COWARDS.IF YOU ARE A GANG MEMBER READING THIS,REALIZE THIS.No longer do inmates respect gang members in prison,all these new gangs (since late 80s) are nothing but cowards, peasants, wannabes, or lazy and jealous people or insecure punks. It's really too bad a person can't do their own time in peace anymore due to these idiots. Other inmates just want to do their own time, we don't want to "hook you up" with anything "bro",so leave us alone.
I unfortunately spent like 3 years there off and on over past 20 years.I have been on every unit possible almost. Unfortunately mostly on the maximum units on floor 4 where they keep most known gang members. To protect these admitted "gang members" from having to fight evenly/equal (like a real man) or heaven forbid getting harmed, gangs are separated into the 4 units for their safety. Unfortunately for any non-gang member a real man who gets sent to those units, half of each gang unit is regular people. The gangs are mostly broke peasants with broke/cheap/lazy/uncaring families, so they have to STEAL from other inmates by threats/gang attacks.They also gang jump people for such innocent stupid shit as using the upstairs phone,or causing a few minutes extra lockup between "free time/out time" switches.
If a single non-gang inmate stands up to /challenges one of them they will run like a coward to plan a gang attack and not only attack 10 or 20 on 1 but will beat the guy so bad its just punk move. I RARELY EVER saw a unit 4 ERC gang member fight a non-gang member one on one like a man. And the rare time they did,if they lose,they will cry to their "bros" then gang attack the fight winner. And note,these specific gangs of each unit could (and do) severely beat 10 innocent people,they NEVER get moved to other units "for their own protection". Yet ERC does shit to protect the non-gang people they force to live on the units with these low-life animals.
USE TO BE YOU HAD TO BE TOUGH TO BE IN A GANG-NOT BECAUSE YOU ARE IN A GANG AND FIGHT ONLY 10 on 1..oh how times have changed......punk cowards now control ERC.
Hope the new Remand keeps these idiots 100% separate from others (Let them interact only with other gangs and whatever happens happens....they chose the life...man up and don't ask for own unit for protection).
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I wrote this when I was in Spy Hill after spending 21 months remanded and another 7 sentenced.
I never knew just how much jail could improve my life. I would never have gotten this far in my education in such a short period of time had I not had this chance to clean up and focus. Now that I have the education I need to succeed in the real world, I wonder if the lack of responsibility I have had over the past two years will hold me back as well. I know what I have to do in order to succeed but I wonder if I will have the motivation to do it once I am out.
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't scared about getting out. Having been in for such a long time I have grown accustomed to doing things at a certain time every day. This routine has become such a constant in my life that I wonder how a new one will affect me. I am looking forward to going to work and supporting myself, but the responsibility of getting up every morning to go to work is something I have never been good at and is something I haven't even had to consider over the past two years. Being clean and sober for this time has allowed me to mature somewhat and I'm hoping that this will be enough to keep me motivated to succeed in my life.
I am still very young, barely an adult at 21. I am glad I got this stage of my life out of the way when I did. I see men here in their 30's, 40's, even some in their 50's that have been in and out of jail their whole lives and will continue to be in and out of jail for the rest of their lives. I am not sure what my future holds for me but one shred of certainty that shines through all the uncertainty is the fact that I will NEVER be in jail again. For most, the system does not work. I don't know why it has worked for me but I am sure that it has.
The system is flawed in many ways. There are corrective measures in place that do in fact help people rehabilitate themselves, but for the most part, these programs are completed merely as an obligatory duty, used only for show to gain an early release. There should be more programs in place to help people who want to be helped. There needs to be more encouragement for people to change their lives. I guess I just don't understand how some people don't care if they are in and out of jail for the rest of their lives. I have always been told I have so much potential, that I can succeed in anything I put my mind to. I suppose I do have a leg up on most of the people here but I just can't understand why some people don't want to achieve, why they don't desire to be better people and do greater things than win a few Kim-Chis playing poker or do a superset of pushups. I must admit I also do these things on a regular basis, but these things do not occupy the majority of my thoughts.
I am filled with a cocktail of emotions ranging from sorrow and bitterness to excitement and euphoria. As my release grows ever nearer I am finding these emotions showing themselves more and more frequently. Each day I wake up knowing two things that I am but a handful of weeks away from being reunited with the ones I love and that I have wasted countless days incarcerated, days that I will never get back.
I think back to where it might have all went wrong and I can't say for sure. I have my theories but I don't like to speak of them because I feel I'm not taking responsibility for my own actions. I believe seeking some sore of therapy would be beneficial for me although I know it won't change anything. If anything I think it will at least help me come to terms with the things I have done. I am my own worst enemy. I can delve back into my past and I can recall the way I used to think when I was in my mid teens and I remember how I didn't think but I KNEW that I was right about everything. Now I KNOW that I knew nothing at all.
The only thing that is different now from then is that I KNOW that I am wrong about everything, and it's this perspective that will help me to grow into a mature adult. When you think you know everything how do you learn? When you can't learn then how do you grow? If you can't grow then how can you ever improve? But why try to improve if you already know everything? This is a cycle that is hard to break, especially if your thoughts are constantly clouded by drugs and alcohol. Jail is the best thing to happen to me because it gave me the chance to dry out. Jail is the worst thing to happen to me because I lost so much because of it. It was worth it, barely here.
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I was in the Edmonton and Calgary remand centers about 2 years ago. Without a doubt the most corrupt people in this province are the guards in these hell holes. I personally observed guards supplying inmates with both Tobacco and Drugs! The attitude of the guards, or to be fair, at least 90% of the guards, is atrocious.
The medical attention you get in the Edmonton remand center is no better than most 3rd world countries. Both places are filthy and I wouldn't let my dog live in either of those places. Will things change? Not with the way things are being run now.
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Yeah I spent time in Edmonton Remand. I got sent there for assault. I was a pretty good fighter and the woman's unit were shit. I witnessed a lot of rape. One time I got jacked by 17 or 20 Indian ladies. They pulled me into a corner and busted a train. I blacked out only to wake up to three native fists in my vagina. I was found by a guard and was admitted into the hospital I later found out that I was purposely infected with the HIV virus.
Stay safe. I love you. Sometimes life has a way with even the best ladies. I am sorry for the sob story. Rape in prison happens; it helps to either hit first or stay quiet in the background. I found the people that have the most problems are the types that find the biggest person in the yard to hit. Just to show the rest of people that they are crazy. But they are the first to get raped, killed or beaten. They're retarded. Stay safe
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I'm out on bail from the Remand Centre on four bogus assaults, and I was on 3B! The jail is dirty, and the people on my unit were just a bunch of fallen soldiers. Good people, solid people, keep your heads up! You're all in my thoughts and prayers.
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I was in edmonton remand center on the 5th floor on the womans side and the girls there where kind of mean but some where nice.
I was hungry and got sick with a bad ear infection from not getting any attention. I am being charged with traffiking and possession but i had no drugs on me at ALL.
And i wasn't dealing, in the first place.
I got my check and cashed it and had no change for bus fare. So i ask my friends who are street kids and she gave me change. I end up giving her more money because i'm nice and she's poor and pregnant. But cops roll on me, her, and her boyfriend and charge us all. I was in remand for a week. I got in one fight with a drunk native girl who tryed stealing my clean white shoes for court but I was wondering what can i do to be proven not guilty in this matter? I am just wanting to live happy n love the earth n world.. i was sad being in there.
My dad busted me out. 2500$ and i dont talk to my dad. My parents split up in sept. It's may right now and i'm 18. i'm very girly and i don't deal drugs only smoke them. But i will never hold lots only personal.
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I was in the Remand for aggravated assault and uttering death threats. I was on 4A unit and it was pretty shity in there, especially for a white man so those little IP goof indians in there think they're tough. They think they run the phone and shit.
I had some goof trying to tell me it's the boys phone. I told him I would lock this wrang down. I come from the Pas and at least the natives back there know their languages. These nobodies don't know shit.
That guy backed down so to all the white boys do not take their shit; punch the first one out when you get a chance and they'll fold first crack. But watch for the rest of the unit.
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WOW! I have been doin' time in the E.R.C. since the early 1980's and not once have I ever heard of such SHIT as OZZY wrote. What a "Ring-piece"... to know that there is an inmate ogling a "COP" and Yanking his tiny appendage.
Firstly, if she were to open the cell after lock-down, Central Control would know about it, since the entire system is (always has been) electronically controlled. If she had opened the cell, like he said she did, and she had no reason, main control would have sent up 30 emergency response team members to "prevent an escape" which is exactly what they (central control officers) would have thought when the lights went off in their Bubble.
GET A LIFE LOSER instead of writing porn fiction for this site! I have been doin' time my entire life and not once have i ever heard of such crap.
So, here's a memo, I gueantee "it will be exactly like the way it used to be, when you were there last time"... see you inside "Chester"... you were realy the one on their knees.
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Why is it you learn you want to never go back to prison when you're actually in there and do the same old s*** that got you in there when you're released? You haven't learned while you're free? As for the guards, they're doing their jobs and I would be tired of seeing you too over a span of 25 years.
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My young adult son is in Remand right now and was transferred to the Fort Sask Remand. I have went to visit him in both places.
My observations thus far are the guards at the Edmonton Remand are power hungry/want-to-be-cops while the guards at the Fort are not that way. From a visitor's prospective and a person who works within the justice system, I am not impressed at all with the guards who are on the Edmonton Remand units. Shame on them! Even when they go outside for a break they walk about looking down upon people who is just there to visit. One day they might be faced with a situation in their family where a loved one has an addiction problem and perhaps then they might have some compassion. SHAME ON THEM!
While I realize they do not have the easiest of jobs, they should remember that they are Federal Employees and remember that they are to conduct their duties with a high level of service standards!!
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I was there in the 80s. Perhaps a pool ball broke a window and perhaps someone tied bedsheets together and perhaps as much dope as a guy could get in in the amount of time the window was probably broken, did get in. I'm not sure though, I could be wrong, and I cant really remember the exact september day.
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I was part of the Scoop On the Streets of Edmonton In the late 1980s. At that time it was the first I knew that Aboriginal women were being arrested when and if they reported a serious attack by an offender who was white. At that point I was questioned and verbally abused all night long. They refused to believe what I was telling them and made me repeat what I knew about the attack inside the vestibule of my brother's appartment building.
The guy was like something out of Halloween. He kept coming after me dragging me face down a flight of stairs. He was calling me by someone else's name. He wouldn't stop. He pounded my wrist and broke my bracelets while I was grabbing the handrail for leverage to get away. Three times he was pulled off, and three times he was able to throw off my defender and come after me fast enough to drag me down a flight of stairs face down by my legs.
Nothing appeased him he wouldn't take my purse when offered but threw it on the floor. It took three people to get him off and as soon as he was off I ran away into the apartment. No phone. He was a friend of the landlord, a drug addict and criminal. Then the second attack by the Police began. They forced me to take off my shirt, standard operating proceedure even today. They laughed and made filthy observations. They were ugly and depraved.
I was in the Remand Center for two days. It cost my parents a lot of money to get me out and to get me a lawyer. I was completely broke I had just come from a stint at S.F.I.N. University in Sask. They had charged me with aggravated assault with a weapon. I got my lawyer's investigator to find out what happened. Why was I targeted? I found out who the man was. A friend of the landlord a person who was taking advantage of the elderly man who was an alcoholic. He had banged on every door in the building, about the rent he was trying to collect and maybe more people were selling their T-4slips ( income tax) those days.
He had robbed and was intending to rob more. He was stoned out of his mind. The Police were not interested. They had to cover up the arrest and assault on a victim of a sexually and finacially motivated attack. The man's appartment was near the bottom of the stairs he was trying to drag me down there for a reason.
My lawyer advised me to stop talking. After a two year legal battle costing my parents thousands of dollars this was dismissed at preliminary hearing. The man said some blonde guy slashed his throat. He identifyed me as a woman he was flirting with. Against my lawyer's advice I attempted to get the Police to charge him. They said that they already had him. He raped and beat to death a fifteen year old Aboriginal girl In Cold Lake. They didn't have him the RCMP did. I never found out if it was just a line to stop the attack of the Police Officers involved from coming forward. They do lie. I was smacked by the horror of what they had done to me and the fact that they'd caused the murder. None of them believe that when they refuse to charge a white attacker abusing and assualtng an Aboriginal complainant that they are causing murders because they show rapists a technique to use when arrested. They pretend to know their victims and to be in a relationship of some form. They could have any tenuous connection. The attackers are not the ones these people including Police pals are after.
The fields around Edmonton are littered with bodies and it is my information that the RCMP have adopted this technique. They attack the reporter, label them as high risk lifestyle and begin a cycle of abuse through the Children's Services Network now part of the blue wall. Their prostitues at the Services/teams attack and abuse women by forcing them through diversion and they are labelled on a list of violent women. They used to just put an asterisk on the file showing that a woman was considered a violent offender if she had ever been charged with an offense so they set us up for rape/ murder and then have the attackers working on those who survive us inside the walls for the briefest possible imprissonment for killing any one of us. The Remand overflow now goes to the Fort Saskatchewan jail.
There women who have been attacked can become the subject of approaches by Aboriginal Protective gangs. The problem is the correction's authority has all the money. They can abuse women and young people by the technique of having them assessed while they are in a state of shock and practically non-responsive after the attack by first the offender then the Police. It is exactly as it was. I checked. My grand neice was the victim, her lawyer put together a plea agreement she would have done anything to get out. She has a baby the Prostitutes at the Crisis Unit in Edmonton were holding. She permitted them to asert the second charge made by the Prostitute Police Officer who stood over them while a Constable attacked her for refusing to take off her undershirt, he wanted her naked after her strip search once agin in the back hallway. If they get you in there be sure to ask for a female cop or to back into the room where the cameras will protect you. When she kicked out as she was choked, the female Constable a native liason to the IAAW stood over them, and unintentionally was kicked. This prostitute-constable was allowing the charge to stand. In league with others she had made a decission to make a full abuse of this 19 year old girl and set her up for a no Police protection situation and send her out into the streets to beg. She knew the beautiful girl would be squeezed by her prostitute colleagues interspersed through-out the system many actually living with Hell's members. The Attorney General here is famous all over the world for rape propaganda (Rwanda/ Bosnia Herzagovinia) and the installation of Anarcho-capitalism. She had the Peacekeepers stand down in those instances after she started the racial cleansing attack. I found a glossy add on the net it says that Redd Alert are the Enforcers for the Hells. It isn't true.
The Police are the Hell's enforcers. Redd Alert is a loosely associated group formed first in a hip-hop dance group done in the late eighties by a social worker named CM at Indian Affairs. They performed at a series of functions. They were corrupted as one of the first prison related gang members. He went to jail last time for chopping the arm of an seveteen year old Aboriginal girl with a machete in Edmonton's East end. This guy was in his forties at that time.
Most of the recruiters lie about their age, pretending to be younger. I think whoever put out the glossy advertismant was a person interested in making use of the Hell's motto: "There is always an Indian or a N. Word out front taking all the risks." They deal death and the Police serve them and they infiltrate all the service groups and the Police. They have Political backers. I bet I can trace that glossy add, bet it cost money. I never saw a kid in that good of shape except for one fresh out of jail or of course the many Aboriginal athletes and kids who have few options except their actual sports talent or are being stolen form the reserve sports programs by neighbouring towns the minute they get really good in every field of endeavor co-opted.
These people will be advertising the ethos of the Gang. They'll use any method, but recovery is not far off. If fellow innocent people have been imprissoned. Make the choice: No stupifying substances of any sort. This is part of what is called the Firewater attack. They try to get you stoned one way or the other so you can't defend yourself intellectually and psychologically. If they get a fake diagnosis on you they can use it later to discredit you and for the rest of your life. Don't answer questions to them when they have drugged you first. Don't make the mistake of thinking they intend to help you. Most Psychollogists are employed by the Corrections system they are there to cool you out with dope. So stay cool to begin with.
Don't think you'll gain any adavantage if they are able to label you with anything it will follow you the rest of your life. They'll make the effort to write you off and it is a imprisonment well beyond the first one. Don't ever believe soft voices reqesting you to submit to stupifying substances. Don't let them diagnose you in there. On the outside it costs over ten thousand dollars of wasted money to try to get the lable off. No one will buy it. The label will stick no matter what. Once they've got through the fake help to a desparate kid they work it the same as any gang associate. Check them out, they act like pimps.
The Soliciotr General likes to talk about intergenerational transfer. I think the jig's up for him. Residential Schools weren't at the level of a war crime or crimes against humanity were they? Well if he doen't give me an assesssment report that says... Wait a minute that report has to be from a social worker on criminal sub-groups, psychopaths the real ones can diodge psych assessements easy. They're looking to hurt innocent kids. Clear inferential study and corelation you see?
Offenses against the Spiritual development. be Aware of the storeys of the Elders. Who are they and never let a person who pretends to be an elder put the arm on you in the joint. They have extended the crimnal record issue until you are 25 years old. The intent is to hold you for failing to appear when you were 12 years old and on the run. Children's Services is the feeder group for the gangs, controled by them and operating with their blessing through their prostitues. Don't show anger. Be solid. Wait until you get away and then help other's stay away from the "teams" of Police or Hell's involved attackers.
Don't take their dope. Don't go to their parties. Don't buy their line." They don't wear signs around their necks and they'll offer a lot of money up front to own you until their cop friends can have you labelled and maybe killed on the streets or simply used up after a short lifetime of battering and stabbings and shootings against you. Don't go to Prostitue establishments they already have rules posted about their involvement with these ones.
It is permissable to sell dope there and you are only barred for a month. It is permissable to beat women there and be barred for a week. Don't take metahadone they have their bunch in there. Don't listen to any offers by a kind starnger. Go to the people you know and make sure they don't get in with gangs. You can't trust the Aboriginal services they are willing to label you and get you on the list of vulnerable people and several have prostitues working for them.. Check who funds them. If anyone tells you that you deserved to be beaten up at the services. Don't buy their line. If they tell you it is you who are crazy because anyone abused you.
Don't buy their line. Don't make any violent response or become agitated. That's what they want. They can attack you again if you do. As soon as you see them laughing at your pain you'll know who they are. As soon as you see them giving heeps of sympathy and advising you to cop one plea after another you'll know who they are. Don't be a lamb being led to the slaughter.
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If you've been in the system you know it ain't pretty. I finished a 15 month term, and learned a lot of hard lessons.
Number one, old school doesn't happen anymore. ERC was dirty and lock-up sucked but in some ways I feel that on the womens Unit 5A wasn't that bad, not compared to the drama at FSCC. There on the womens unit there's too much favouritism and if you aren't with certian gaurds then life becomes hell.
My first few months weren't that bad but when I hit Unit 2 life spun in a new direction. One of the guards didn't like me so I shipped out to Lethbridge where I got into a fight with an inmate who fractured my head. Then I got shipped back to ERC where I did fine, and of course shipped back to FSCC. I had changed but this time within months of the meds they push on you, and with the drama and the goof troop, I became completely different. I went from me to anger.
All I can say is that the system is not what tv and news reports say. There is a lot of corrupt gaurds and it is a completely different world in there. Innocent till proven guilty doesn't happen. Try guitly till proven innocent.
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I'm an officer At E.R.C. currently and if anyone believes "Ozzy," you're just as dumb as he is.
We NEVER enter cells to do strip search alone and women would NEVER strip search a male for obvious reasons. By extension, male officers NEVER strip search females. If you're going to make stuff up, at least make it beleivable, dumbass.
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I too find it disgusting the way that inmates are treated at the Remand. Although I have never been incarcerated, my friends spouse is employed as a guard there. I regularly hear about the way inmates are treated with zero respect, called names and are subject to racial profiling. AND they think its funny!!
It's interesting that Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) has not yet been mentioned as 80% of prison inmates are affected. FASD describes a continuum of permanent birth defects caused by maternal consumption of alcohol during pregnancy, which includes, but is not limited to fetal alcohol syndrome. Although there are many side effects, common effects are: learning disabilities, poor academic achievement, poor impulse control, limited social perception, poor communication, inability to conceive abstract ideas, poor memory, attention and judgment. DOES THIS NOT SOUND LIKE MANY PEOPLE WHO END UP INCARCERATED? Scientists, researchers and doctors know this..... but prison officials do not agree...
Is it okay to treat people with disabilities like an animal?? Something to think about.
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Hey Ozzy, what unit were you on? Were you on 3B, cause thats where I was and the lady that works there brings in drugs all the time for us, or used to anyways. She is a bigger lady and sometimes wears glasses name starts with a J may be Jamie, I think. She would bring in weed and smokes all the time for us. Tell us where to hide it and shit. Good times. ERC is a messed up place but they should do this everywhere in there, would make it easier.
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OZZY, you're an idiot, that did not happen no matter how much you want to think it did. I work at ERC and there isn't a single female officer there that would touch a con. Not to mention the fact that that she entered your cell alone long enough to give you a bj.
When conducting a security check if a female officer went into a cell alone and didn't come back out right away, ANY officer in the pod would 44 your ass and you'd go for a little trip downstairs.
As far as the center is concerned... I'll admit it's a shit hole. It's way overcrowded, the meals are tiny and half the time cold by the time they make it to the floors. As far as staff are concerned.... there are a few that are a joke and can't figure out for the life of me how they got the job. Some are "con lovers" while others are heat bags. Nothing better than having some OT retard heating up your normal unit, never to work there again. In our defense there are capable officers who in my opinion strive to be firm yet fair and build good rapports with the inmates.
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I would never ever want to be on the other side of the glass. The only thing worse than looking at balls and brown stars would be, to be the one with his back to the windows.
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i spent just a little time in erc but if i could get whay i got before i'd love to go back i had met a girl in a bar one night had a few drinks tried to get her home but she was married so when i ended up in erc i was shocked to find her working there as a guard on my unit,a week went by my celly was transfered about 11pm she walks in my cell alone and said it was a search and told me to strip(she was alone)she then gave me one of the best blowjobs i ever had,she said it was for the drinks and cab ride,before she left she gave me half pack of cigs and four matches and showed me where to hide them and kept my sell to myself for 5 days so if i could go back to that senario again i would
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I just did a 15 month bit myself... it sure is hard to be a female in jail... terrible to be away from your children and family. The staff were harsh a lot of the time. It was enough of an eye opener to keep me from ever going back. It is packed in there, it stinks and in all honesty you starve if you cannot afford canteen. There are really no nice things to say about it... never ever again.)
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Hello, my name is Richard. I was in the remand for 2 weeks. I was on unit 4-a. It sucked ass. The guards were very mean and rude. They would lock us up for the littlest thing like I remember when we went to gym, some guy was just throwing his arms up and around just trying to stretch in the elevator because he just finished working out. When we got back on the range the guards locked us up because of that guy doing that. We all got punished. Then the cleaner went to every single cell asking who did that. This really young guy we called the farmer took a punch for something he did not even do. It was just because he was a young kid. I felt so bad for that kid, I really did.
I kept to myself. I had no problems myself, but the guards were assholes. When the west division cops took me to get booked downtown I sat in holding tanks for about 23 hours and got one pj sandwich. I asked them about 13 hours in if I could get something to eat. They said I'll be right back, well he never came back. I was cold. Never had a sweater, never got nothing from those assholes. They treat you like animals. Actually an animal probably gets treated better than that but ya I never really had any convictions and the JP denied me on 1st, 2nd and 3rd grounds.
My lawyer got me out of there. He's good. He did not even have the police report, just the bail hearing, and said to me, "I will have you out because they are evading your rights by denying you on 3rd grounds." And I got out that night so that's why I am saying they should change a few things in that jail, like more cameras and get rid of the hammer hawk guards. They're always watching you trying to pretend like they're reading the paper. Well, you are going in the shower you know they are just gunning your package. They must just love when you do the cock walk in Calgary. I know they do but I have to go, bros. Check out this web site again later. Thanks for reading this, later.
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Edmonton remand I was their 30 years ago. From what i see and hear now Edmonton has a funny way to take care of the homeless poor people. The guards make their own game out of real people and they get paid for it, and yes the Beat Cops are more positive and professional. I think we should make them the guards and put the guards on the street to see how long they last.
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Yea, I was in the remand for a month in august and it is sad how they treat the people there, like animals. It's not right. They don't feed them barely anything and the gaurds are rude as hell. They have no respect. I'm 19 and I was in for a threat charge which was later dropped and I just think they should have some decent people working there to show a positive attitude.
Then maybe they could have an impact on some of the offenders' lives and set a good example.
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I was there, for a ticket, of all things. Yes, I believe that if you are really violent, then don't expect any kindness for staff. However, for someone like me, who never caused any trouble except for a ticket violation, I don't deserve to be abused by the staff. However, about 90% of the time, the staff was very abusive. There were pregnant women denied a trip to the bathroom, and a dangerously ill woman about to fall into a seizure as well. Innocent until proven guilty. The public could never imagine what it is like in there. It is no wonder most recently some one was found dead there. Some of that past staff have also been charged with disgusting behaviour as well. In all fairness, I make twice as much as one of those guards, and pay much more in taxes, but it is pretty bad knowing just what my tax dollars are going towards. And yes, some people were highly inefficient as well. I can't say all were bad. It must have been pressure from their peers. Beat cops are more professional.
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I was in the Edmomton Remand Centre from 2005-2007 for aggravated assult, something I wish I could take back. But that's the past
and now I just want to say that who ever goes
there time after time, should just realize that it is waste of time. I wasted almost 3 years of my life in there just for for nothing, but when you're homeless, it's the only free shelter you got. You get a place to sleep, you get to be warm and you're never hungry. Most of the remand population are homeless people, and if they had more shelters in the city then the jail systems would not be so packed.
That's the truth believe me I know!
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I worked at ERC for 8 years. Crowded facility. Worst dregs of Northern Alberta end up there at one time or another.
Society is now getting so bleeding-hearted over these inmates, that staff have lost control over the centre.
No wonder there is such violence. I believe kids and young adults are spoiled rotten and think they deserve the best. They lie and steal when they're on the street.
"Can't do the Time... Don't do the Crime," they say.
Sheriff Joe (Maricopa County, AZ) is my hero!
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I was in the remand center in 2001, back when you could smoke almost anything in there.
I was on unit 2A (THE ZOO). It was the day before our canteen day and the unit was dry for tobacco. Anyone that smoked was strung out from lack of nicotine. I lived in cell #1, my roommate was an IP gang member so him and I were styling.
His packages arrived that day and that meant weed. We had a ounce of it. We were kings. My roommate was friends with one of the guards, I think his name was John, anyways, I was in my cell when he came in with a towel in his hand. He looked at me and said "Merry Christmas" then left the room. I looked on my roomie's bed and found four bails of #7 tobacco that he had just got from the canteen. Later on my roomie told me that the guard was the one I could thank for the weed and the tobacco.
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