PowerLifting in Prison

[narcsarge]

Originally Posted by POWERJIM

I respect your opinion greatly since you worked inside a prison, i guess there are alot of schools of thought on what should be done with the ever growing numbers of inmates, the only real changes they are gonna make is finding the Lord Jesus which will send their lives on a different course totally, now thats a view alot of people dont share huh.

And many of them do "find" religion in jail. For the sole purpose of making themselves look good for the parole board. Hell, we even had a minister that used to come in, a "reformed" heroin addict, (he preached to the inmates) that was busted for bringing in drugs! Go figure!

[POWERJIM]

Originally Posted by narcsarge

And many of them do "find" religion in jail. For the sole purpose of making themselves look good for the parole board. Hell, we even had a minister that used to come in, a "reformed" heroin addict, (he preached to the inmates) that was busted for bringing in drugs! Go figure!

Yeah sounds about right mate!

[B4n3 0n3]

Originally Posted by narcsarge

And many of them do "find" religion in jail. For the sole purpose of making themselves look good for the parole board. Hell, we even had a minister that used to come in, a "reformed" heroin addict, (he preached to the inmates) that was busted for bringing in drugs! Go figure!

That's why I am skeptical of people that claim to be Christians. You never know if theyy are real or fake.

[narcsarge]

Originally Posted by B4n3 0n3

That's why I am skeptical of people that claim to be Christians. You never know if theyy are real or fake.

Don't be so quick to paint all Christians with that brush B4n3 0n3. Either way, God will know so I really won't lose too much sleep over it!

[Papasmurf]

Originally Posted by Cammo

That's a bit rough - It's all well & good saying prisoners should be locked in a concrete room all day with bread & water but just imagine what sort of people they are going to be once they're released......... Treat them like animals on the inside & they'll behave like animals on the outside.

Im all for exercise. It should include daily outside time where they can run and do pushups and situps or whatever they like. I dont see the need, however, for convicted inmates to be bench pressing 400 pounds. Theres plenty of activities they can do that dont involve becoming brutally strong. For the safety of other inmates and guards, lifting weights should not be allowed.

[Azrael]

hey they just aired this documentary on discovery channel 2 days ago, when i saw i was like ''hey, i've seen this somewhere else''...

i must agree with papasmurf ( i hope gargamel is not around and hear me saying this...lol ) but papasmurf is right...anywayz, most of this people will get out of jail and be right back eventually, specially now that they are mean machines...

[narcsarge]

Just to give an illustration of how these "prisoners" do once they get out:

We had this one inmate who came through our facility 5 to 7 times in the 8 years I worked there. Guy was a heroin addict. He was 6'2" and would come in weighing around 152lbs sick as a dog, puking for days during his withdrawal. After a stay at our "health club" he would weigh about 230lb and be big and shredded. Probably so he could survive going to the State Penn. Once released, do you think this guy joined his local health club or Gold's? Hell no! He went right back to doing his thang! As with most everything else that inmates do in prison, once they hit the bricks, they stop what they were doing on the inside and are immersed back into the environment from where they came.

[B4n3 0n3]

Originally Posted by narcsarge

Don't be so quick to paint all Christians with that brush B4n3 0n3. Either way, God will know so I really won't lose too much sleep over it!

I don't paint all Christians with that brush but some of the most evil people I have met have been people I met in church so there is a basis to my skeptisism. But like you say God will sort them out in the end.

[narcsarge]

Originally Posted by B4n3 0n3

I don't paint all Christians with that brush but some of the most evil people I have met have been people I met in church so there is a basis to my skeptisism. But like you say God will sort them out in the end.

Indeed you speak the truth! Let us not forget the many evangelists that have fallen from their lofty perches!

[B4n3 0n3]

yup. That is the case with too many churches these days they are all about profit.

[POWERJIM]

Im interested how we managed to turn this into a whats wrong with Christians thread , theres alot wrong with Christians like most flesh and blood people, theres a huge amount wrong with churches that are doing nothing but draining their people dry, im not in a church because of this fact! Very few Christian churches are following the Bible correctly because like all things to do with Jesus, Satan likes to try and take over and become a Jesus type figure himself this is what he does, so this has lead to most people hating all Christians to the point of wanting to wipe out Christianity, out of 95% of Christians about 5% roughly must be following what God sets out in the Bible, Too many false prophet like Benny Sinn i mean Hinn are leading people up the wrong path, i like to call them Ocult leaders as they are too far away from anything Christian.

PS. Some of the best churches ive been to are those with less than 10 people attending, all wanting to soak up the word of God rather than jumping around being happy clappers paying God lip service!