How many people do you know that have been to prison?

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Only counting people you know quite well (say well enough to chat with so friends, family members or close colleagues sort of level) not passing acquaintances or friends of friends

None.

Two. One from uni for possession with intent but now dead, another for controlling and coercive bahaviour (categorically not a friend but I went to their house once for tea 🤮)

3 acquaintances in my twenties from the pub.
Two had gone to prison for football violence. The other robbery, he had been a junkie.

Two. One was someone I was at secondary school with - although he was in my year I didn't really know him. Only knew he'd gone to prison in his 30s as it was a serious crime that was in the news. The other is someone in my wider friendship group.

A school dad - peado
my friend’s brother’s best mate - peado
my grandfather’s best friend - murder
my brother’s school friend - drug dealer .

Oh forgot my Aunty’s ex, some machete related assault!

What's the difference?

3
Ex partner, sex offence (he's dead now)
Ex manager stole a large amount of money from the business owner (he's dead now)
Close family did a few silly things as a youngster. Turned their life around now

Zero

50 yrs old

no one I know
including arrested etc

My uncle and my grandma. Both due to corruption. Big money corruption. Not in england though. Out of jail now and still rich as ever.

Three.
Deeply unpleasant boss, got really bad vibes from him. Did a bit of research and found he'd stolen a lot of money from someone he was supposed to be protecting.
DH family member, total thug, firearms, drugs, violence. He hasn't improved.
Absolutely lovely young man I worked with, couldn't believe it when I heard what happened. He totally turned his life around afterwards.

None close. Son of a work colleague for sexual assault.

None but I’d guess most people don’t brag about it afterwards.

None at all, not even expanding beyond close family friends to literally anyone I know.

My father in law spent almost 17 yrs in prison for murder and my mum for a couple of yrs for something ahe never did tell me the truth about

None.

Although I heard a rumour that the father of somebody I went to school with (and haven't seen in thirty years), was in prison for assault many years ago. He was a shady character who wasn't much liked so I don't know if there was any substance to this rumour.

My former boss's son, ex-boss was a supposedly devout Christian, always bragging about his perfect family and how well they were all doing. Appeared to be Mr Nice Guy on the outside but could be nasty when he wanted to be. I knew his son well (and his wife and daughter), as he was always visiting his dad at work. Boss was a very judgemental person, he was always right and we were all beneath him. His son actually seemed much nicer than him. I found out his son grew into a big time criminal, he committed major fraud and drained many unsuspecting people of their life savings/pensions. The worst thing was my ex boss, the "Christian" was in on some of it too. His son got sent down for a very long time and my ex boss was lucky to get away without any jail time, but was seriously shamed by the Judge and was all over the papers.

Two of my sister’s exes have been in prison. Also a friend of the family. So, three.

Out of interest did she have to serve time and more importantly did he?

Two, one for fraud and one in a maximum security for class A drug dealing when we lived in America

Professionally I've known loads.

Personally - these days - probably half a dozen. I was arrested many years ago and spent several hours in a cell at the station, though I wasn't charged.

Zero

None

Three

A colleague in the late 90s sent to prison for assault

A colleague of 5 years ago sent to prison for fraud

A current colleague who spent time in prison in his early 20s for dealing drugs. Now in his 30s and reformed