US Prison Guard Meets UK Prison Guard in VR
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A retired prison guard from Florida in the USA meets a current prison guard from the United Kingdom in the virtual reality social game VRChat. - เกม
This is very accurate. All US prison guards are french catgirls and all UK prison guards are Margaret Thatcher
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No, no. The japanese prison guards are catgirls.
ok so it’s not only floridian prison guards but the rest of y’all too?
@@Azeal you should see if you can find someone who worked at Mexican or Brazilian prisons, they’re much worse from what I heard.
"Hi im Lea, I used to be a correctional officer..."
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alright pretty normal"
"... For the State of Florida."
*"OH NOW WE IN DA REAL SHIT"*
Those Florida people are always interesting
@@InsertName159 it's not that much different tbh I'm in one of the worser/kinda ok parts of Florida and I've been in a few different states and haven't seen any difference in crimes or anything
i live in florida
@@mason4903 God help ya
@@InsertName159 the real reason the news is wierder is because the laws on what you can report are more relaxed.
I love how both of them say on paper we correct inmates to be a better person but in reality they just stop inmates from killing each other. Shows a lot about society huh?
To be fair, they're just the guards, the "correcting" would be done by the psychologist
@@colelinse6196 Thanks for the correction! (full pun intended)
@@colelinse6196 yeah. But correctional officer sounds better than prison guard when talking about it. Apparently.
its because the justice system, and basically everything else with any amount of influence, doesnt really care about making people better or preventing them from becoming bad in he first place. its barely better than vigilante justice at this point...
Dude it’s 100% true we all do or did nothing but kept them from mustering eqch other. I always said it was like babysitting criminals
This is probably one of my favorite videos so far. It’s absolutely crazy to me how fucked our systems around the world are. Props to these guys for being able to talk about their experiences and bring more awareness to what really goes on.
its even worse than you see in this video like, for example in the US there are "profit prisons" that use the fact that you lose your rights when being put in prison as a way to have legal slave labor. Prisons be fucked up in all ways.
Worse crap is when people are sent to prison but on drugs and need to go into isolation (meth / Ice / other shit). Saw a guy who stripped himself and smeared doo doo EVERYWHERE, another who tried to tried to bite people and you risk getting nasty stuff like HIV
the similarities and differences between prison systems/working conditions in the US and UK are really intriguing, great video as always :)
I was caught off guard by G’s voice. He sounds super cool.
You were caught off *guard* by his voice?
He also much taller
He sounds like Danny g but younger
@@bodhi1762 I have only heard the name Danny g was a while ago and it was from an angry man from Birmingham
@@redrazor4639 ecksdee
Let's all give a thank you to the prison guards,they risk their lives everyday.
lol
arent they armed with tasers and batons? Or am I playing to much escapists?
@Baumkuchen I was wondering how he got out of his Twitter echo chambers? Poor guy must be in a coma after this.
@@shivertron It's dependent on what they have been trained in.
Yes. People say to do the same for police officers and the military. And that’s fine, but I feel that prison guards are heavily unappreciated. They keep most of the criminals in one place knowing that they could potentially get ganged up on by a bunch of inmates and get murdered.
In The Netherlands, inmates don't have to wear uniforms. There cells are also like 1 star mini apartment and are more focussed on rehibilitation rather than punishment.
Also, please note I have never been inside a real Dutch prison and I'm not planning on commiting a crime in order to be sent into 1.
@lil_diabetes I've never even set foot into those countries, but yes I know about set prisons there.
@lil_diabetes I mean it Kind of comes down to pragmatism. If a society is Pragmatic, they will try to spend as little as possible to get the least criminals on the street.
The Norwegian prison System seems to me to have accepted that "justice being served" Is not a universal concept for victims and their relatives, and have therefor adopted a rehabilitation centered approach in order to avoid having to spend money on the same people over and over, basically admitting defeat when it comes to the states ability to "make things right" In a justice sense.
If a society however were to be heavily influenced by morality as a universal concept, rather than an individual one, they might feel that justice can indeed be served by the state (or any institution for that matter) and then what you get is longer prison sentences and more punishment based corrections facilities.
I personally prefer the former approach.
However the latter can be deemed viable, but I feel like once you make incarceration a for profit, you no longer act within either of these philosophies and I have yet to hear of an acceptable third option that has a legitimate goal.
I bet all the hollywood stuff about prisons as well molds what truly happens in real life prisons as well as how average prisoner is treated.
Ok I'm going to commit a crime
@@meowser1905 I know you're jocking and I'm not laughing.
I don't know if it's just me but I think everything sounds more interesting and/or sophisticated when an Englishman is speaking about it.
thanks ☕️
“Unhygienic there’s RAts and cockroaches everywhere”
It’s sounds like your typical family gossip at a restaurant with the accent.
G. sounds professional, i’d trust them with anything
As a fellow security professional it always makes me a bit sad to see the state of corrections in the US. We could do a hell of a lot better, and reducing volume is a big part. Reducing volume will sadly never happen in the US as the for profit prisons (ie, slave labor) put big money into pushing strict and restrictive laws, to get more bodies behind bars and making their products. A lot of stuff "made in the USA" be it belts or licence plates was made with slave labor in our prisons
We don't need to reduce volume, we need to increase it. There's a massive spike in violent crime in the US, because prosecutors and judges are not locking criminals away.
I thought that "for profit prisons" just meant that they arent run by government entities, I never really stopped to think about how they stay operational, it should have been obvious to me. This country is fucked, "Land of the free" my ass.
@@tomhardy8420 I mean, it kinda is. You can't use the experience you get in prisons in future job applications, including prisoner firefighters, and the required check box of having been a felon reduces chances of getting a job significantly when out of prison. Not to mention the prisoners get paid peanuts. 12 to 40 cents an HOUR, and they basically have full on jobs. It's honestly ridiculous.
Your opinion does count, but it's unfortunately misguided. Always make sure to inform yourself on topics before diving in.
@@CurliFox
We literally have one of the largest prisoned populations in the world, the fuck you on about.
Just shoving people into a concrete box hasn't done shit to improve the crime rate, it just turns people into worse versions of themselves if they ever do get out.
And because of the felon mark, many end up back in prison because they're effectively locked out from becoming part of society again for the rest of their life.
This is why we're horribly overdue on reforming or just straight up starting over, with how we deal with crime instead of this thinly veiled slave trade we deal with now that doesn't fix shit and only exists to reinforce itself.
My mom was a corrections officer and it did her bad
“My name is G”
Okay, cool.
“I work for Her Majesty…”
OH REAL SHIT
Because the United Kingdom is 'Constitutional Monarchy', the Queen is legally in control of the country and the head of state. This means most governmental departments work 'for' Her/His Majesty in a legal sense, but not a legitimate sense.
E.g. HM Passport Service, HM Armed Forces, etc.
Prison staff often go unnoticed when we pay respect to public service members. Respect to both of them and I wish them nothing but the best
I had a cousin who used to work as a corrections officer and the amount of shit that he went through all for a less than average salary is just baffling. I have so much respect for people who work as guards in prisons and hospitals because they risk their lives everyday usually for very little in return.
Skrews are pretty much just the failed version of police officers.
It just plain out isn’t worth the trouble.
This is so accurate I was laughing out of pure relief! I was a prison guard in Alabama for almost 3 years and everything they said was 100% dead on the money
I worked as a registered nurse in both a large low to high security prison and a county jail. This conversation brought back so many memories. Love my COs. Even the Lieutenants I butted heads with constantly. Sometimes I miss those days but then I remember the horror stories. The drugs, the mentally ill, the suicide attempts, the assaults. Telling an incarcerated father that his son died. Broke protocol there and gave that inmate a hug. Doesn't matter what he did, everyone needs support in that moment whether they're wearing orange or not.
I really appreciate the fact that you do fundraiser on almost all, of your videos. I don't have the money to donate to all of them but it's really cool.
Keep up the good work.
Thank you, I try to do good with the platform I have :)
@@Azeal Keep up the good work! Love the channel! :)
State of Missouri has no privately owned prisons and I'm so fucking glad. They are all state owned and it means all the workers with "MODOC" on their jackets get healthcare and PTO.
My dad was a CO as well as Cook I, II, and almost III one time, and was a store clerk (officially) before changing jobs. My mom and I worked at the same prison for the health car company DOC contracted across the state. I was a mental health clerk, and my mom is still a therapist there. Despite the prison being a minimum security facility, I've met some fucked up people.
At this prison is a program called puppies on parole where prisoners are allowed to help care for and rehabilitate dogs. Well, one guy came in and he was not allowed to be on this program. The reason? He was in prison for skinning and killing stray cats. I've met drug dealers, long time gangsters, career criminals of all shades, and - yes - even sex offenders of all stripes and colors. Believe it or not, a lot of them are not terrible people, they just need help. For some, that help is structure and schedules. For others it's psychiatric help (which we provided to those who were approved for it). For yet others, it's services we can't provide because we mingle them with way more dangerous people. It's unfortunate, but I am proud to say some places aren't the cesspool of corruption and evil we hear about all the time. Yeah, even the place I worked at had some violations of human rights, but they were dealt with soon enough, if not immediately. It's unfortunate, but monkeys and typewriters and you'll find some new-to-you ways to hurt people.
I'm glad to that about your state.
I didn’t know that my state had no privately owned prisons. That’s great to hear, but I wish the whole country’s prison system was more restorative and less punishing on drug-related offenses.
Didn't know that. Born an raised in Missouri and I've never heard anyone mention that.
This reminds me of a story I was told by an ex prison guard during my career in private security. There were four female officers who are friends with each other, and all of them developed the same physical attraction to a rather handsome male prisoner. Now mind you when a person becomes a prisoner they become property of the state. Once you become property of the state you lose autonomy in this case they lose the ability to consent. These four female officers each took turns having sex with a prisoner and getting impregnated by him like it was some weird sorority initiation. Eventually they were found out and all four were charged with rape as the prisoner had no means to consent even if The Prisoner willingly engaged.
Wtf
I'm not saying you're a liar, but that seems surreal. Like something out of fiction...damn. That man must've been very charismatic or those women were very crazy
@@chaosXP3RT when I was told about this I couldn't believe it either. From what I was told the prisoner was attractive and well built. But I mean to throw away your future like that there has to be a better reason.
If there is anything being a CO taught me it's that nobody should have that role, especially long term. Many lose sight of right from wrong and end up bitter. It's also a very depressing environment to be in day-in and day-out. It also made me aware that many of the crimes committed are minor i.e marijuana possession and they just got caught. Either that or drug addicts or mentally ill who just get tossed in prison instead of getting the help they need. After a few months, I knew Law Enforcement wasn't for me, even with a now wasted degree.
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Thank you for this!! Not everyone who ends up in prison is sociopathic killer. I made mistakes when I was 21, owned up to it, plead guilty, took my time, served it without causing anyone trouble and focusing on my education as well as working out and self reflection. It was an amazing year that really helped me come to peace with a lot of things and now I have been out for 7 years, straight as a ruler and feeling far better as a person for it. Honestly, without that year of isolation from the world I may have ended my existence, it brought me alot of solace.
The prison guards I dealt with for the most part I just saw as people, people who had families and wanted to get home, people who were just trying to get by. There was no reason to treat them with malice or disrespect.
I hope you found whatever it is that fulfils you my man. Have a great day!
@@Squeekysquid Not all sociopaths are bad people no, but most bad people are sociopaths or psychopaths by nature. (Or tend to trend high on the identifying points for one or the other.)
That dude is the most British man I've ever heard.
I love how these really tough prison guards have these cute anime girls as their avatars
This was very informative and helpful. Thanks for making this video! Keep it up!
as a british i can confirm we have less prisoners cus theyre all in Australia
Used to work at a maximum security death row prison and it sucked ass, one of the scariest moments of my life was when I got off work and stopped to get gas this dude in a red dually started to follow home so I just circled around down town for like an hour while this man was on my ass. Eventually I just said fuck it and slept in the prisons parking lot.
as a guy from the uk who has had many encounters with police officers and people who guard prisons, i wont say why, he is every british person who has worked in a prison or as a police officer ever.
I really can’t express how grateful I am for these videos. By far the most fascinating thing I’ve heard on TH-cam in years. I could listen to these all day long.
Real life content, all while giving people a place to vent. It’s really incredible
One of my family members used to be a technician for Pelican Bay Prison in "The Shoe" They told me a lot about their experiences in Pelican Bay. They said that the biggest mistake of that prison was running this huge computer program designed for pharmaceutical stuff off a little windows XP PC under someone's desk.
Azeal, you’re absolutely genius for this(this interview series)
tysm :)
Your channel is great, and I feel like every video helps humanity in a great way. To spread awareness, and to raise money for help with these issues
Keep it up!
Now we need a US American prison guard with a Finnish or Norwegian prison guard
What's sad is most of the stuff they are saying completely reminds me of the military. The 48+ hours the suicide attempts, getting sacked for doing your job well and other things said. Makes me even more sad.
These videos are always so interesting to hear. Love the channel. I love that you always ask the good questions.
When he said “I smell the coffee that morning shift made”
I felt that
It's a bit funny that the US guard says like "i'm an correctional guard from florida' then the UK guard comes an tells what category is from like if he was an god damn SAS Soldier or something like that
This was so interesting I love watching this kind of stuff
I'm finally early to an Azeal vid nice
and then we have Norway, sweet, sweet innocent Norway treating their prisoners better then any other country (which is confirmed to help against prisoners going back into their life of crime)
Even the title US person meets UK person is exiting enough.
I can't decide if I hate or love British accents. Some are bad, some are spectacular. This man's accent is amazing.
lmao fair
Northerners- barely the same language
Midlanders- boring
Southerners-posh
Frogman finds this very nice.
Frog in a prison, Frisog
Really appreciate this channel and how you bring other walks of life and perspectives into the mainstream world. Your content has been really intriguing to watch and your guests have some fascinating stories
I'm glad that you actually linked the song most people don't credit Mikel's stuff.
I just work at a low level institution, but Holy fuck. I knew it was bad in other places, but every time I hear story and just be glad I didn't go anywhere else.... And I already don't like this job. But Lea is right about saying "no". The first answer should always be "no" or to follow the process of whatever they need done. Don't do any favors.
This is why the government needs to regulate things like maximum hours worked in a shift.
First thing I noticed is that is the Pilot’s Gauntlet from Titanfall 2
Well that is the first thing to
@Azeal r u a Titanfall fan?
I consider myself a Titanfall fan and I feel ashamed that I didnt notice this sooner.
The biggest thing is how often you need to get the stuff off your mind but their arnt really any people to tell that won't think your messed up because you have to disassociate to a degree and laugh at most everything else
Wow nice vid!
If I could talk to the person who sent you to solitary confinement I would say “ What was your thought process sending a child to solitary confinement?”
I've just watched the swat video as well and both just makes me want to pursue a carreer in security honestly, I'm kind of in the stage of your life when you're trying to find out what to do of it and what you're good for so this is gonna help I think.
Glad to see UK and USA being peaceful
i love seeing these videos and seeing different points of views from different people
I would absolutely love to be in on one of these if you ever did a follow up, I just need VR Chat.
that bop of a channel outro i need to know the song
Interesting, great video as always.
This was really interesting I can't imagine trying to deal with all of that
I was at the worst of ________ in florida. All you had to say was "Florida" and we know already assume its the worst of anything. lmfao
you shuld find someon from a prision in the latino america ( from Mexico to Chille ) to talk whith this guys, that would be interesting.
Would be cool if it got mixed with Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, or Swedish prison guards as well.
Scandinavian prison guards: Yeah we let the inmates leave during the day and they come back at night for lockdown.
Mexican/ South American prison guard: The cartels had my family hostage and I had to smuggle drugs in my anus into the prison.
@Remain$ definitivamente, mas duvido que alguém que trabalha em uma prisão aqui, tenha dinheiro para um VR
The most unnerving thing about all these videos is the ways the wrists bend at extreme angles.
I thought this was clowning beta US prison guards vs chad UK prison guards from the thumbnail at first. I wasn't expecting a real discussion.
welcome to this channel!
Some prisons in the US ain’t no joke.
I question so many things I’m starting to think I’m very erratic thinking all over the place very interesting video keep it up Azeal
This was a very eye opening video. Certainly sounds like a rough job...
American: It's my job to make sure they don't kill each other
Brit: It's my job to make sure they don't kill themselves
I Would love to see a Sweden, Iceland or Netherlands prison guards talking about their daily jobs/lives. This was very interesting and saddening to watch. They both seemed very sad and hoping they can get therapy/counseling for their jobs. It should be mandatory and paid by the state not them...
You hear about Florida men in the local news, or memes.
But imagine having a job dedicated to being surrounded by those very Florida men who are capable of heinous shit.
( ' _ ')
The American sounds like a correctional officer and the uk guy sounds like he has a very low tolerance to anything
I think Prison Architect has taught me a lot about prisons and how to run them.
I won't say that G sounds like Michael Caine. But I do feel like G could do a perfect Michael Caine impression with a little practice.
Never expected prison guards to use anime avatars
you'll be surprised about all the different types of people with intense jobs having 'unique' avatars/different ways of expressing themselves,
I regularly interact with someone who teaches at a prison in the UK, and from what they said, the lockdown hit a lot of prisoners hard on the mental health front. Getting the mental stimulation of the classroom seems to be a major high point in a lot of their lives, which implies certain things about how the prison system treats prisoners.
Another banger video🔥
It definitley gave me a new perspective on prison. It was rather interesting.
I honestly thought about being a corrections officer in Florida when I lived there.
That is the most British person ever jesus christ.
i worked for serco for a month. they run everything from the Hong kong rail network to obamacare call centres.
i had zero training too
once they told me not to talk to my colleagues and i had to wait two hours to get help over the phone from their help desk.
so glad i turned down that job offer to become a prison corrections officer
I just love these videos
I'm glad!
Something many misinterpret about florida crime is that all documents about crimes are public info making a tabloid gold mine the info is just so readily available.
That's one of the thiccest Bri'ish accents I've heard in a while -and I love it-
The best weapon you have is your creulty. As a gaurd, use your power to spread fear. They won't touch you until your in the weakened places where your not able to fight back. If your careful you can avoid being alone.
Amazing video i repeat this every vid but this is great content
The similarities and differences are quite interesting. Makes me wonder what a police officer might say about like the 2012 London Riots or something
I like this format to compare. Its pretty eye opening.
Both my parents work in corrections and they made me swear not to work there.
Yea, mine did the same. Its a hellhole from what my dad says. We can see straight to the wardens house aswell. Two fucking storys tall. The heating works. He screwed my dad over constantly when he was a captain.
holy shit his voice is exactly what i expected from a british person
Interesting how opposite their systems work with staff and support, despite how similar the problem is and experiences with the prisoners.
they are literally playing FnaF irl
Might sound kinda weird but that UK guard sounds exactly like what i imagine an English man to sound like. Proper and more fluent but also always a little annoyed and/or depressed.
A decent guide to English accents is to think of it as a scale, further north everyone sounds like a clash of clans barbarian and further south they speak like the monopoly man
Me: hears le British
Also me: is that what ill sound like when I'm sound like when I'm around my 20s
No-one: yes
Me: five more years to wait then-
I’ve put in time as a utility worker for Sodexo. Had no idea they ran private prisons in the UK.
I can't imagine being a Prison Guard... They have it so rough.
On a side note, I wish I got to meet other Paramedics in VRChat. So far Ive only met a cop. They seem quite rare to find. Maybe it's becuase we work literally 24/7 Lmao
I've met one firefighter so far, and that's because my VRchat avatar had a traditional style helmet on her, and someone said "hey I have that sane helmet in my department"
Have a cousin that works at one of the Federal prisons in my state with her husband. They'd pretty much agree with whats been said here from my interactions with them about it. The say NO thing is probably the best tool they use with the inmates.
Yo, I’m from the uk aswell and I knew some people talk really formally, but, did he really just say “draw my keys”.
So in the UK most of the prison population is people who were caught with unlicensed butter knives right?
kinda off-topic but it's pretty cool to see a video take place in the harmony training sim from titanfall 2
Yeah it's actually a direct rip from TF2, baked lighting and all
Florida ain't so bad for violent crime your looking for New Jersey. But hey, the guy from jersey we were gonna bring in was rocking back and forth in a corner sucking his thumb so we went with Florida
After hearing this I think I'll stay a criminal. You'll never put me on the inside anyway
You had me at Florida
"You say no. Shut the fuck up.get out of my face inmate" lmfao authority
Great video! Very interesting.
Thank you!
Worked for texas department of corrections. Most accurate shit I've ever heard.
I used to eat at a diner which is across the street from a Georgetown prison. Surreal stuff.
3:45 “i watched him tackle someone & start stabby stabby him repeatedly”
Me: yea that guy going to pris… oh wait