What would you do to avoid turning yourself in at San Quentin tomorrow?

There is nothing you could do, at least nothing that I know of. If you faced a 25 year prision sentence, and we’re man enough to do something to deserve that sentence, then you are man enough to share a prison cell with Snowflake. – LB

Fine, I’ll serve my time. But I’ll give “Snowflake” notice: touch me, and it’ll be a really bad idea for him to get sleepy.

Depends on what I did to deserve the sentence in the first place.

Yeah like @Grisaille said it would depend on what I did. But, regardless I think I would try to run because after a sentence gets to 25 years much more doesn’t really make a difference. So I’d try to stay free as long as possible. Also once in, I might hit a guard to be put in solitary as to not room with Snowflake.

I would do anything necessary to avoid prison. Move to another country, fake my own death, plastic surgery, you name it I’d do it. If I couldn’t avoid going on the inside, I would immediately request solitary confinement, and if that didn’t work I’d act like a complete psycho (rub feces all over my body, convert to Christianity, whatever else I can think of that would give the impression I had lost my mind), in hopes of serving my sentence as far away from ‘gen pop’(general population) as possible. It seems if you don’t belong to a prison gang you have a much smaller chance of survival; I am “bi-racial”, so I wouldn’t be accepted by either the Aryan Brotherhood or the Mexican Mafia (or whatever other Anglo/Latino gangs infest San Quentin). Even if I was accepted by a gang, I am a peaceful person by nature, so it would quickly become evident I was unsuitable for their organization. Even in a prison gang, you are constantly victimized by the shotcallers; they have nothing to lose since they’re already Lifers – they could care less about the repercussions that may result. From their perspective no action is too extreme – if you don’t follow orders, they’ll kill you without a second thought.

So…yeah, I would do anything to avoid prison.

I’m quad-racial. You ain’t got nothin’ on me, @FutureMemory

I’d show up, because I wouldn’t want to get in more trouble. I wouldn’t have done anything to cause me to get a 25 year sentence in the first place though.

Take off to the Badlands and set up camp!

If I was actually guilty, I’d probably move to isolated woods/mountains and meditate for the rest of my life without expending significant effort to stay alive. I don’t believe our penal system is an accurate manifestation of public will. I prefer to trust myself to universal law. I would hope for being eaten by bears or wolves as penance for my egoistic crime.

If I was not guilty, I would probably judge whether I thought I could make a difference in the penal system over time by bringing my case to public attention. If I could, I might attempt it. If I thought I couldn’t, I’d probably act as if I were guilty and head for the hills.

It’s interesting to me that I’ve read of convicts running away to live in caves or in forests and then turning themselves in a number of years later. I find it really surprising that someone would prefer to live in our prison system as opposed to taking their chances with bears and solitude. But to each his own.

@timothykinney Well do you think maybe that the conscience catches up to these criminals that are actually guilty that run away and live in the wild? Maybe being alone with your thoughts for so long makes you think differently than you and I could imagine, you know?