Prison Guard Reveals How To Survive Prison | Michael Smith
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- Опубліковано 28 тра 2024
- Former Correctional Officer and Cop Michael Smith dives into the raw realities of prison life, from earning respect to navigating confrontations, surviving on D Block, and even finding unexpected opportunities amidst adversity. Hear firsthand accounts of tension, encounters, and the complexities of acceptance in prison culture, all while exploring themes of injustice within the criminal justice system. These compelling stories offer profound lessons and insights into the human spirit within unescapable prisons.
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:06:23 - Gaining Respect
00:13:09 - Surviving on D Block
00:19:32 - Cheech and Chong's Gummies
00:25:33 - Survival
00:32:12 - Confrontation in the Yard
00:38:49 - The Encounter
00:45:34 - Tension Prison Sections
00:52:17 - Accepting Favors in Prison
01:05:30 - Unescapable Prisons
01:12:13 - From Resignation to Dream Job
01:31:11 - Injustice and the Criminal Justice System
01:38:01 - Prison Stories and Lessons
He was respected and respectful because he understood and lived by the convict code to be respected by convicts you basically have to become one mentally Which is profound
Great interview Ian. You don't see guards or cops like this guy anymore. Michael is a great guy.
Thanks so much!!
This guy is Over exaggerating, just a little bit.I worked in prisons in the 80s in Texas, the worst of the worst.It was nothing like how this guy is explaining it
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Need a part 2 Ian, legit genuine dude, great interview
His was absolutely the best interview ever! Definitely need more OG prison guards like this Michael on!! Thanks for the awesome interview!
Excellent interview. Thanks to you and your guest.
The infamous Caran Fromhold Correctional Facility CFCF 😂 I can relate because I was there it’s nothing nice
Really really good interview keep them coming! 💪🔥🔥
Thank you!!!
This is a great interview!!
Brilliant podcast
This guy is a top man,
Thank you
That time flew by
Bring him back Ian
This is the first heart felt guard interview. Big respect this man.
I agree , as a former correction officer I too believe all police officers should have to spend a couple of years in corrections before policing. Gives a whole different prospective not to mention half or more would not make 1 month
The county I live in to get out on the road all cops have to spend a minimum of a year working at the jail.
The future cops should do at least 2-3 years as a prison guard and to start your police career you should be put in the cities first than work to your retirement in a small town.
@@lunsy9420that’s actually great. I’m a big advocate for that cause they hopefully won’t abuse their power as much.
You have to do 2 years as a co before you can become a sheriff here in our local county
@@lunsy9420 was it Alabama. They do the same
Nice interview, keep them coming
I watch all your videos and I am a huge fan. This was the best interview and most relatable to me. Keep up the good work.
Thank you so so much!
I actually work with Smitty at his “dream job”. He runs our boxing gym and is as real as it gets. Good dude, honest, humble, proud, and a funny MFer. But I wouldn’t want to fight him 😂. Great interview. See you tomorrow brother 😂.
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27 years as a NYS prison guard. Retired 10 years ago - this interview brought me back on the job. Funny how many prisons are almost exactly the same down to the block letters representing the worst blocks. I can relate to just about every story Michael told.
Thanks for your service
This guy is great! Thanks Smitty
Worked right across the street from CFCF for a couple years and catered to the LEO/MILITARY/first responders community around there and I used hear the craziest stories everyday
Best one yet
The sponsor videos are so cringy it nearly ruins the content
Stop being a cry baby
GREAT INTERVIEW 💪🏼 🇺🇸
Oh yeah we need a part 2
Holmesburg,NE !!! Thanks for taking care of the streets and the Men the right way.
This guy is AWESOME!! What a great guy!!
Best episode yet.
Thank you!!
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Smitty is awesome, god bless Michael Smith!
If anyone ever puts together "Locked In Bingo," I'm 99% certain that the free space in the center should be "Gladiator School." 😆
It wouldn't be a free space then lol
This dude is as real as it gets God bless his soul, 🙏
Yet Another 👍🏼👍🏼🔥💯
Me and Burt Cooper were roommates in drug rehab back in the 90s called bowling green...
Great interview Ian ! Bring Schmidty back and IF you come to Philly make sure he chaperones you.
Graterford was no joke. Mad respect for this dude. Salute from the P 🫡💯
You gotta be genuine but NOT a pushover
What a stand up guy. His stories sure sound like stuff from Oz. You must watch Ian! Ain’t an easy watch. Hardcore but excellent.
Great sit down northeast Philly boul told it like it was
Being a CO definitely humbles you 100% true statement.
I'm with you on the flying my man. The only planes I've been on is when I was being transported by the feds. I even told them I wasn't gettin' on the plane(for a few mins). I asked for something to make me sleep and everything... I got on the plane(twice with them), but never will I willingly. I understand how you feel!!
55:37 it comes from the old Coast guard Barracks in Cape May N.J.
M. Smith could watch the program "Mayday". I think the Tenerife accident (Pam Am/KML) story is really interesting.
This guy needs to write a book and audio read it could listen to this man until the cows came home
I thought for a minute that was Domenick Lombardozzi.
Standup guy ! realises respect is a two way street.
Hes pretty solid
I love your unique personality Ian and I love Smitty..wanna buy him a Case of Irish Whiskey
Ian you do NOT want to come to Philly 😂😂😂 Geesus ! Maybe visit Bucks County.
You can't rat and You can't snitch? Yet you're a Police Officer upholding the law? Right is Right.. and Wrong is Wrong goes for everyone!
2nd and Jackson here!!
I miss prison.
It's never too late to come back
@@alexbanker9355 just waiting for the right one, to make it all worth it.
Good reason to treat people right and be a good person. Many are out here like me.
@@alexbanker9355 I will when I find a worth it.
This guy seems genuine,but I can't help thinking back to that Sally Jessy show when everyone believed that Mafia cop scumbag lying his ass off and everyone thinking he was a hero... I hope I'm wrong because I do like this guy
I got an associate degree in criminal justice, they really wanted us to become correctional officers, but prison is the last place I want to be either as a prisoner or a correctional officer, I hate the prison mentality, it’s the sickest men, and I’m not a sick fuck, I once went to a rehab with all the guys from prison, let’s just say I wasn’t impressed by these guys at all, they were all big and muscular, but they didn’t want to work or do their chores or follow the rules or listen to the staff or do anything they were supposed to do, they literally complained about everything, grown men complaining about stupid shit and not doing their part, I left early cuz I couldn’t stand being around these guys, I went to the army and I’ve always worked even though I’ve always been an addict , but real tough guys raise their families and do the right things in life and work jobs to provide for their families, that’s a real tough guy, these prisoners had no idea about that lifestyle, one guy had his teenage daughter show up one day to eat Lunch with us and this guy didn’t have a relationship with his daughter, he asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said a cop, you should have seen the look on his face, his heart sank, instead of being proud, instead of being so proud of her he was embarrassed that she said that out loud in front of all of us, I can’t respect any man with this mentality or that wants to live this lifestyle, I respect the real tough guys doing the right things, without them we wouldn’t have this great country
CFCF D2-2. 2001
Place was serious.
So this is who Jay Williams Lets Live Life be talking about
This boy is built like a Middle Linebacker..
Forgive this question if the answer should be obvious. Smitty said that someone had told him who had taken his cigarettes. Wasn’t that guy a snitch? Are there acceptable snitches or not, and how do you know the difference?
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okay we get it about the Cheech and Chong
In my opinion this guy has Caveman syndrome ! He said no child predator in his block? A true professional is there to do a job and should be mature enough to do his job with out his personal opinion effecting his job! And allowing inmates to fight is not a type of an officer I would want around!! Liability waiting to happen! Just for the new corrections officers out there trust me you can gain respect with out going into a cell and fighting!!
see he got out his xs shirt for the interview
I know a lot of people that have been in CFCF. They say it's one of tge most violent jail around
Real life Mike from Breaking Bad.
You’re right!!
Excuse me fella you want to get to the interview……geesh 😮
Smithy was a horse. Don't let him fool you.
lol
Back when proson was just like he described it.
Now its full of rat inmates & pusay guards
SMITTY is a great guy Great interview and I never want to meet a “booty bandit” 😳
Hey Bick get this guy Paul Montana on asap
Cfcf is a brutal place
Get dat man some water 😭😭😭
You know?.... right? x ♾️
800 pushups in 20 minutes? BS. I spent 9 years in Army combat arms, and there were a lot of PT studs…. back in the 90s, the max for pushups (to get 100 points) was 82 perfect pushups; i saw a person break the 85 pushups mark a few times. i never saw anyone ever break 100 .
And we worked out 1 - 2 hours every day.
I was in 3 sci's in pa...also berks county jail..some stuff he says is half true....pa jail system isn't that bad compared to other states
Do you really need him to explain what a "cell thief" is???
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OG sounds like Vinny Paz
Facts
800 push ups in 20 minutes?…
He is full of shit about the pushups
Crazy how prisoners are programming in different states. I woukd have never guessed that booty bandits would even be able to be alive in Philly. I can only speak on Texas : In TDC any cat with a sex case on his jacket would be dealt with immediately by his own people. And trust that the guards would throw them to the wolves even before they hit the facility.
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This guy wouldn't be doing that in a California prison being locked up is very depressing in the last thing you want is a guard joking around with you.. yeah I'm out!
A few things every prison is called Gladiator School and what do you think this guy went in every fight and beat the s*** out of every guy
How do you find the people you interviewed? I am the truth. 🔥 🔥 🔥
Not that difficult these people are every day people nothing too interesting !
How about clean the prison up and the guards actually protect the weak. Half the corruption going on in prisons takes s place because the guards look the other way. If they can’t do their job for what ever reason, find another way to make a living. If it’s an animal house inside….. then it sounds like administrative and guard staff allowing this crap.
Youre no Mr T
Never ever give any type of power to inmates over other inmates!! You lose credibility!! And shows weakness! That tells other inmates you need help from inmates to do your job!!
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I believe basically nothing said on this podcast 😂
Sous (sue) chef
You were a Sqaured Away CO. You got that from your pops..
Can buddy swallow any louder
Never heard of the Nation of Islam spoke of in this way. Every institution I’ve ever been to the nation was the most civilized group by far.
Need to upgrade your bs meter!
Who would want to be a cop nowadays anyways or prison guard no thanks
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800 Push-ups in 20 mins. Hmmm
You can be anyone you want to be on SM. One minute he is telling you nothing is for free, next he ask the shot caller to do him favors.
I worked in prisons for 16 years the first day till the end I walked up to the shot caller and explained, I was now the Boss. That’s how I did it every place I went.
Everyone has a story and tells it how they interpret it.
Dumbest question I have heard this week….”have you thought about starting your own channel”. Should have asked the leprechaun where the gold is.
ATLANTIC CITY NJ PRISON. I'VE BEEN TO FDC IN PHILLY TOO. PLEASE GET WITH ME
9:44 he said “I’m walking in there as a man, I’m gonna be walking out as a man..” 🙄 Okay dude. You’re a C.O.!! That’s something convicts say, usually referring to the possibility of getting “graped”, & their willingness to do anything to prevent that from happening.
That phrase is something he has heard an inmate say & he thought “that’s pretty cool, I think I’ll try saying that too from now on.” Nobody’s trying to grape a C.O. foo.
Not saying he’s a goofy guy, but it was a goofy moment when he said that.
What’s a bad muppet never done nothing bad in is life? Talking like he’s a stone cold 🥶 killer!!!! Cringe
Not a good one, no flow
This is what happens when two dudes watch too many episodes of Sons of Anarchy and The VIew. This guy has more stories than Whoopi "i won't lie' Goldberg. And any channel sponsored by dope chews can't be taken seriously. For the love of all things holy, YT has really gone liberal and Hollywood.
What are you on about ? lol
This dude needs help
@@brickgoon Exactly. Broken grammar. "lol' instead of spelling real words. This generation has watched far too many episodes of SOA and are now "telling stories 'bout how the real schnitz be in the lockdown 24/7 and keepin the prison gangs at bay for realz...........but the man always be pimpin new prison rulez........." You morons are in a fantasy world.
Are you crying just to cry? Explain yourself
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