Go figure. Usually these signs are in prison towns where the prison is not visible from the road/highway where the sign is placed, as if anyone needs to be reminded, because prison towns are famous--as in notorious. I've seen several of these signs. Weekend night-time fare for my favorite cable news channel is three hour documentary cinema-verité Saturday and Sunday nights on incarcerated life and its multiple and wide-ranging characters (both male and female prisons featured) with their multiple and wide-ranging stories and dysfunctions. We have the largest prison population in the world. I catch snippets when I turn on television to access a movie. Fifteen seconds tells a lot about a cultural mindset which provides an audience for such programming and my own horrified curiosity--the kind of high school fascination teenage boys had in my day with raunchy, grainy pornographic pictures.
Go figure. Usually these signs are in prison towns where the prison is not visible from the road/highway where the sign is placed, as if anyone needs to be reminded, because prison towns are famous--as in notorious. I've seen several of these signs. Weekend night-time fare for my favorite cable news channel is three hour documentary cinema-verité Saturday and Sunday nights on incarcerated life and its multiple and wide-ranging characters (both male and female prisons featured) with their multiple and wide-ranging stories and dysfunctions. We have the largest prison population in the world. I catch snippets when I turn on television to access a movie. Fifteen seconds tells a lot about a cultural mindset which provides an audience for such programming and my own horrified curiosity--the kind of high school fascination teenage boys had in my day with raunchy, grainy pornographic pictures.
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