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Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

What Really Happens When Prisoners Have 23 Hours Alone.

Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories

True Crime, Crime, Military, Law Enforcement

4.6809 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

What Really Happens When Prisoners Have 23 Hours Alone? The fascination with **prison life** often stems from the surprising ways inmates adapt. Even simple things like **communication** take on new forms with ingenious schemes. Learn about the **jail** system and inmate ingenuity in this discussion.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Thank you for watching.

0:01.8

I tried to beat Cuomo to the screen, but I did not.

0:05.6

I was too slow to the draw.

0:07.8

So prison culture, I think, always ennammers people.

0:12.1

You know, even that whole thing with fishing.

0:14.1

People are here looking like fishing, like, you know, they're trying to pass notes to each other.

0:19.4

Like, it's unbelievable the things you can accomplish when you have 23 hours a day

0:25.1

to scheme and to send a little note out to the next tier or whatever.

0:31.0

It's unbelievable, but they do these things.

0:35.2

Absolutely.

0:35.9

And now, you know, for me personally, that was one of the biggest kind of

0:39.9

surprises when I began my career is how ingenious some of these individuals are. So as I said,

0:45.9

no disrespect to my colleague, but I've been in higher ed for 25 years. Some of the most

0:51.1

brilliant individuals I've ever met were inmates because they have nothing but time to sit in their cell and plot and plan and figure.

0:59.7

So as you said, you know, the idea. So what what they just showed is pretty much what I thought it was going to be.

1:05.9

So he is in, he's not in a supermax facility. So he's in a general population facility

1:10.9

and specialized housing unit.

1:12.7

So he'll be in that unit for a certain amount of time,

1:15.8

maybe a few weeks, maybe a couple months.

1:18.7

The reality is what's going to happen

1:20.5

is all the administration, all the staff at this facility

1:23.7

are well aware of who he is

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