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Old 05-16-2022, 02:10 PM
 
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Coushetta is about 45 miles south of Shreveport, and about 4.5 hours from Houston.
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Old 05-16-2022, 03:22 PM
 
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Some women are attracted to bad boys, add in the fact that women biologically are more caring and nurturing it leads them to want to help the criminals. There's also the obvious forbidden fruit aspect to it.
The majority of American women are attracted to bad boys. Bikers, criminals, gangsters, porn industry studs, and etc. Also think of all the marriage proposals Bundy, Dahmer, and serial killers in general get. This guard is a sick twisted moron. Give her 20 to life, No possibility of parole for 20 years
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Old 05-16-2022, 03:30 PM
 
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The majority of American women are attracted to bad boys. Bikers, criminals, gangsters, porn industry studs, and etc. Also think of all the marriage proposals Bundy, Dahmer, and serial killers in general get. This guard is a sick twisted moron. Give her 20 to life, No possibility of parole for 20 years
And you know this because you've polled most women? Or did you go to a ghetto high school? You seem to have an unusual level of insight into the underworld.
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Old 05-16-2022, 03:35 PM
 
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Even Dahmer got stacks of love letters from women. You know, the dude that used to cook and eat people.
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Old 05-16-2022, 03:58 PM
 
Location: A Yankee in northeast TN
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Even Dahmer got stacks of love letters from women. You know, the dude that used to cook and eat people.
That has more to do with being a celebrity than a bad boy.
I do not think that people get married that young because they have nothing better to do. It has a lot to do with the fact that in some areas, like the one I currently live in, it is perfectly acceptable to marry out of high school. Very few question it or look sideways at people who choose that path. Why would they, it's what they know.

As far as this young woman, I'll hold off on assuming this is somehow sexually or romantically motivated. Without more info I think there's a chance that she may just have a misplaced or idealistic sense of justice, maybe she feels these boys were wrongly accused or that they won't be treated fairly by the justice system, who knows.
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Old 05-16-2022, 04:01 PM
 
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Even Dahmer got stacks of love letters from women. You know, the dude that used to cook and eat people.
If you think that's indicative of "the majority of American women" being into bad boys, you have a very skewed view of society and, dare I say: women. Nobody I know has ever been into bad boys. But I suppose, that thinking about that would be boring for you, so you focus on more salacious segments of the population.
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Old 05-16-2022, 04:07 PM
 
Location: Howard County, Maryland
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If you think that's indicative of "the majority of American women" being into bad boys, you have a very skewed view of society and, dare I say: women. Nobody I know has ever been into bad boys. But I suppose, that thinking about that would be boring for you, so you focus on more salacious segments of the population.
Maybe it's an indication of the type of people we hang out with. When I was in high school, I knew a number of girls who were into the bad boys. Sure, they'd say that they wanted to find a nice guy, like me. But their actions spoke way louder than their words. Very frustrating, it was. Later in life, when most of my female contacts came through church or my professional career, this issue diminished greatly.
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Old 05-16-2022, 08:37 PM
 
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i remember a distant cousin who while she was in law school, got pregnant by an inmate in prison she was visiting as part of her law school classes. This was about the same time (we were living in the Washington DC area at the time) as a young woman lawyer helped an inmate escape and they ran off, effectively ruining her legal career. So there was a lot of talk around our family dinner table, whether cousin Connie would get kicked out of law school or continue on with her law career.

Cousin Connie had the baby, finished law school as a single mom, passed the bar and joined a law firm. Personally i don't see how someone who shows such poor judgment could still be allowed to get their license. Would a doctor who slept with a patient be allowed to get a medical license? Would a professor who slept with a student be allowed to continue teaching? Anyway she married a guy in the law firm, then they got divorced, then she married the son's music teacher (the son from the prisoner) and that marriage lasted. The son from the prisoner wound up in prison himself. She however has had a very successful legal career, and has won all kinds of awards. I don't really trust lawyers or have a high opinion of lawyers, including the ones in my own family.
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Old 05-17-2022, 10:37 AM
 
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Please, let's just keep it here. I get so tired of the P/OC forum, the rare times I look in on it. If you put it there, they'd blame the whole thing on Biden. I wouldn't be surprised if they have a thread up, blaming last night's lunar eclipse on the President.

I think you made the right choice. Please, no ripping, here.

Back to topic, I think the discussion so far has pointed out a crying need for professionalizing jail, prison, and correctional facility staff, and also seriously consider having same-sex guards as the prisoners. Of course, "professionalizing" the staff would cost money; they'd have to be paid more. But better pay does tend to bring in better candidates. I've seen that at state jobs, when a position's title and pay were upgraded. It drew in better candidates.
Many prisons are private today, it probably makes a difference in regard to quality of staff they can get. They don't have the union pay, benefits, etc that used to make it a career job.

Per this article, average starting salary is $35,000 a year. Works out to about $16 and change an hour.
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Old 05-17-2022, 11:13 AM
 
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i remember a distant cousin who while she was in law school, got pregnant by an inmate in prison she was visiting as part of her law school classes. This was about the same time (we were living in the Washington DC area at the time) as a young woman lawyer helped an inmate escape and they ran off, effectively ruining her legal career. So there was a lot of talk around our family dinner table, whether cousin Connie would get kicked out of law school or continue on with her law career.

Cousin Connie had the baby, finished law school as a single mom, passed the bar and joined a law firm. Personally i don't see how someone who shows such poor judgment could still be allowed to get their license. Would a doctor who slept with a patient be allowed to get a medical license? Would a professor who slept with a student be allowed to continue teaching? Anyway she married a guy in the law firm, then they got divorced, then she married the son's music teacher (the son from the prisoner) and that marriage lasted. The son from the prisoner wound up in prison himself. She however has had a very successful legal career, and has won all kinds of awards. I don't really trust lawyers or have a high opinion of lawyers, including the ones in my own family.
Professors are fired for having personal relationships with their own students only if the student complains. Such relationships happen less than they used to, our to sexual harassment policies at universities. One way profs get around that, is to date the student they're interested in after she's completed the course with him, and moved on with her program. That way, he no longer has leverage over her, because her grades no longer depend on her meeting his demands. So any relationships following that pattern are considered genuinely consensual. (And yes, I know sometimes female professors can be guilty of the same breach of ethics.)

Did the people administering and grading the bar exam know about Connie's personal life? It's just a standardized test administered impersonally, isn't it? Though it used to be, that you could be disbarred for smoking marijuana or using drugs; I don't know who did the disbarring in cases like that. I suppose it's theoretically possible for someone to be disbarred for springing a convict from prison, but she wasn't a lawyer at that point, just a student. You raise an interesting question, Tzaph.

Doctors or mental health care professionals who have affairs with their patients have their licenses revoked only if there are complaints to the licensing board, or a case goes to court and is in the media. A cousin of mine married a psychiatrist who also taught at the local university. At some point after having kids and in the process of raising them, she found out he was taking advantage of his patients in a highly unethical way, to put it politely. Nothing happened to his career; they divorced when the kids went off to college, and he kept on trucking. People lose their licenses to practice their profession, whatever it may be, only if one or more cases hit the fan.
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