Fights, safety, and conflict

Probably not.

Go to the yard.

No.

I am small and I was fine.

Nobody is going to bother an old man.

Young is the hard one, because your judgment is the thing most likely to get you hurt and it is also the thing least developed.

Stand your ground.

Pretty much.

You may end up in your first one.

I did not, and I am five foot five and a corny-ass white dude. So it is not a given.

Downstream social consequences. Not violence — standing.

Which is a real cost and a survivable one. Before you decide it is not, read what the alternative costs: what conflict costs does the arithmetic in days.

You can. Understand what it means: you will sit in the SHU, and if you want to get shipped somewhere else you will refuse to return to the compound three times in thirty-day increments, meaning about ninety days in isolation. Eventually they will send you to another facility.

It is a real option and it is an expensive one. Checking in also follows you to the next place.

Depends entirely on your case. For most financial and drug cases, nothing happens.

How that first conversation goes, and how to answer it, is in the role.

Military, you are fine.

Law enforcement or prosecution is a genuine safety issue and one of the few real ones. Talk to your attorney about it before sentencing, because it affects designation.

That is not a favor you are asking for. It is a documented input to where the Bureau sends you, and the policy is PS 5100.08. Raising it after you are designated is much harder than raising it before.

Do your best to avoid getting your paperwork checked.

This is a conversation to have with your attorney before sentencing rather than with me afterward, because what ends up in the public record is decided at sentencing.

Your call, I am not your mother. Two things to know before you decide: shared needles are a hepatitis C vector and that is not theoretical inside, and tattooing is a prohibited act, so it is a shot if you are caught.