Staying Out of the 'Hole' in Jail

"What's up? My name is Natural and I'm here on behalf of Expert Village to discuss how to survive in prison. In this clip I will be discussing what I consider to be probably the second most important thing you need to know about surviving the prison experience and it's very much attached to the first which is understanding the system. Rule #2 is stay out of the hole. Doing time ending of itself is hard time but the hardest time that you can possibly do when you are incarcerated would be solitary confinement. In the prison system they have various rankings or what have you not for different violations of the rules and regulations and sometimes the actual laws of the city or state that you're incarcerated in and being in solitary confinement guarantees that you will not have the same access to your family outside of the prison. You will not have the same access to the other inmates in the prison. I know that I was in solitary confinement several times and during those times I was under 24 hours surveillance with 24 hours florescent lights over my head, 1 hour recreation period a week and that recreation period pretty much consisted going to a room which had no recreation just a big 2 way window where people could walk past and look at you in the hole. It was very difficult and I know that during that time because you don't have the affiliations because you don't have the connections it brings a lot of loneliness and content. Staying out of the whole is definitely something to do."