Full Big House
As criminal gangs go, I expect we’re one of the most unusual in the system at this point.
Last year, they finally finished the new addition to the prison that’s needed just to specifically contain us. Not because we’re exceptional, individually; just because there are so many of us. Multiple blocks of group-therapy time just to cycle us through each day. Two shifts for meals. Hardly a week goes by that they don’t drag another one of us in. The process is very streamlined at this point; we were all convicted in a single trial, so any time any law enforcement picks any of us up anywhere, they just bring us straight here. Some of us, the ones who were originally in court, have been here more than a year now and we’ve gotten the system down for welcoming new arrivals pretty streamlined ourselves. We get along extremely well, as you’d probably guess.
They’d probably prefer to split us up (it’s not a great idea putting us all together in the same place) but that’s how the law worked out when it went all the way to the Supremes: if they want the convenience of one trial, one conviction, one sentence applied to all of us, then they have to accept the difficulty of one prison handling the incarceration. Anyway, they like prisons. Prisons are expensive and suck up budget and employ people. The more of us they manage to round up, the more the prison gets to ask for expanded budget.
And there’s always more of us to round up. There may be a hundred different consequences of our conviction that nobody would have expected, but when a master criminal steals a high-speed cloning device, you can’t be too surprised by how many of him are running around afterwards.
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For consideration: took us awhile to really agree that nobody is going to cheat at cards when we play
Last year, they finally finished the new addition to the prison that’s needed just to specifically contain us. Not because we’re exceptional, individually; just because there are so many of us. Multiple blocks of group-therapy time just to cycle us through each day. Two shifts for meals. Hardly a week goes by that they don’t drag another one of us in. The process is very streamlined at this point; we were all convicted in a single trial, so any time any law enforcement picks any of us up anywhere, they just bring us straight here. Some of us, the ones who were originally in court, have been here more than a year now and we’ve gotten the system down for welcoming new arrivals pretty streamlined ourselves. We get along extremely well, as you’d probably guess.
They’d probably prefer to split us up (it’s not a great idea putting us all together in the same place) but that’s how the law worked out when it went all the way to the Supremes: if they want the convenience of one trial, one conviction, one sentence applied to all of us, then they have to accept the difficulty of one prison handling the incarceration. Anyway, they like prisons. Prisons are expensive and suck up budget and employ people. The more of us they manage to round up, the more the prison gets to ask for expanded budget.
And there’s always more of us to round up. There may be a hundred different consequences of our conviction that nobody would have expected, but when a master criminal steals a high-speed cloning device, you can’t be too surprised by how many of him are running around afterwards.
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For consideration: took us awhile to really agree that nobody is going to cheat at cards when we play