i always thought that you may as well be dead than living life in a prison, with lousy CO’s, having to join a gang, lousy food that you don’t know what the other prisoners who cooked it put in it, but since i’m a woman, i think women’s prisons are a little different. here in westchester county, we have bedford women’s correctional facility, where a lot of famous (infamous) women criminals go, like jean harris, who shot the diet doctor in the 70’s. i think what some of those women do is they try to do charitable work, or teach other prisoners (at least, that’s what jean harris did). but if i had to live in a men’s prison, like you see in the documentaries on MSNBC, i’d rather be dead, i think. deep question. i guess you really couldn’t answer it for sure unless you were in the situation.