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Entrepreneurs on the inside?

Quote:ATLANTA – Federal inmate Deldrick D. Jackson and Kelly M. Bass have been arraigned on charges of conspiring to assist inmates to escape from the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta and for escaping and assisting in the escape from prison.

“Jackson and Bass allegedly ran a scheme that resulted in inmates escaping from Atlanta’s federal prison camp into the community,” said U. S. Attorney John Horn. “Inmates who escape from custody present a threat to the safety of the citizens in the area. Safety concerns also arise when inmates return with contraband to feed a thriving black market.”

“The federal indictment of both federal inmate Jackson and his girlfriend Kelly Bass not only illustrates very clearly the problems at the federal camp of the U.S. Penitentiary Atlanta but also the efforts underway by the FBI, working with the Atlanta Police and its other law enforcement partners, to remedy the matter. Federal inmates walking away from federal detention facilities is escape, plain and simple, and the federal indictment of these two reflects this,” said David J. LeValley, Special Agent in Charge, FBI Atlanta Field Office.

“The Atlanta Police Department’s number one priority is the safety of our communities. The department is always willing to cooperate with other agencies to reduce the threat to neighborhoods that escaped inmates present. U.S. Attorney John Horn and his staff deserve a lot of credit and thanks for making these types of cases a top priority and sending a message that any prison escapes will be prosecuted and result in additional charges,” said Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields.

According to U.S. Attorney Horn, the charges, and other information presented in court: the United States Penitentiary in Atlanta (“USP Atlanta”) also operates a satellite prison camp for minimum-security male inmates. In May 2010, Jackson was convicted of conspiring to distribute cocaine and conspiring to launder money. From July 2016 to April 2017, Jackson was assigned to the USP Atlanta minimum security camp. According to prison visitation records, Jackson listed Bass as his fiancée.

The indictment alleges that from approximately November 2016 to April 2017, Jackson and Bass conspired to provide inmates who escaped from USP Atlanta’s camp with transportation in exchange for a fee. For example, on January 28, 2017, Bass allegedly picked up Jackson and other escaped inmates from outside USP Atlanta, drove them to a nearby hotel, and hours later, returned Jackson and the other inmates to USP Atlanta. Financial records show that Bass received approximately $4,000 from accounts associated with USP Atlanta inmates or the inmates’ families during this six-month period.

On April 13, 2017, Jackson allegedly escaped from USP Atlanta’s camp again, after which Bass picked him up and drove him away from the prison. Law enforcement officers then stopped Bass’s SUV and arrested Bass and Jackson. After searching the SUV, officers recovered two cell phones, a box filled with packs of cigarettes, and several bottles of alcohol, which is consistent with contraband that is smuggled back into the prison.

On April 25, 2017, a federal grand jury indicted Deldrick D. Jackson, 41, of DeKalb County, Georgia, and Kelly M. Bass, 38, also of DeKalb County, on conspiratorial and substantive escape charges.

This case is being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Atlanta Police Department.

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Jeffrey W. Davis and Timothy H. Lee are prosecuting the case.

What else can be said? Dude and his girlfriend had a good hustle. Until they got caught.

I'm not so sure I see the appeal for the fellow prisoners. If you have, say a two year sentence, wouldn't getting out for a night end up being terrible because it reminds you of what you missing out on? I could see if you have a life sentence getting a night out on the town, but a shorter sentence getting out before you really get out sounds like prematurely blowing your load. I've never been in prison, so who knows.

As a side note, how does somebody get drunk in prison? Are they gonna chase their tequila with toilet water? The hangovers have to really suck!

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(05-09-2017 10:57 PM)2Wycked Wrote:  I'm not so sure I see the appeal for the fellow prisoners. If you have, say a two year sentence, wouldn't getting out for a night end up being terrible because it reminds you of what you missing out on? I could see if you have a life sentence getting a night out on the town, but a shorter sentence getting out before you really get out sounds like prematurely blowing your load. I've never been in prison, so who knows.

As a side note, how does somebody get drunk in prison? Are they gonna chase their tequila with toilet water? The hangovers have to really suck!

Yeah, it's the same problem with getting a visit while you're in prison. There's that moment at the end when the guards say visitation is over, and then all the prisoners line up on one side of the room, while the visitors line up on the other, and you wave your goodbyes to each other. You get to be with them for a few short hours, and then they go home and you go back to your cell. It's a real downer.

They have more than toilet water to drink in prison. You can buy soda, juice, coffee, etc. People also make hooch sometimes, but since it takes awhile to produce, usually someone will find out about it and snitch before it's ready. Also, they breathalyze the prisoners around the holidays because they know people are going to be drinking.

I knew a guy who was very intelligent, but for whatever reason, he chose to apply his mind to crime, probably because it presented a unique intellectual challenge to figure out fraudulent schemes. He had a year or two left in prison, and decided to jump over the wall of the facility where he was being held. He just had a principle that whenever there was a chance to run from the cops, or escape, he was always going to take it. The U.S. Marshals started following his wife around, and when she went to meet up with him at a hotel, they grabbed him there. He said they were really excited to catch him. I can imagine; the collar is what they live for.

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(05-09-2017 10:57 PM)2Wycked Wrote:  As a side note, how does somebody get drunk in prison? Are they gonna chase their tequila with toilet water? The hangovers have to really suck!

Prisoners brew alcohol with fruit scraps, sugar, with bread scraps to provide the yeast. It's put in a plastic bag with water and tied-off. Sometimes hidden in a toilet bowl. Sometimes called raisinjack.

Don't know why you would want to escape from minimum security, by purpose those places are for guys with short sentences. When you get caught, you're just looking at a longer sentence in a worse facility.

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Let's be real here. Federal minimum security camps are just that. A camp. They are a total joke and have as many activities as a summer camp and usually don't have any walls. It's not shocking he got away with it for a while.

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I understand Jolly Ranchers can be used to make good prison hooch.

Regarding the OP, leaving jail to get trade good then returning undetected to trade them is certainly ballsy. Even if you got away with it for a while, there's no way you'd get away with it forever. It's like dealing drugs. If you get into it on a large scale and just keep doing it, it's inevitable that you'll eventually get caught.