NOOOO...THEY GOING TO LOCK THE GATES >>>TROW AWAY THE KEYS>>>AND WALK AWAY>>>>DUHHHHH.

I really couldn't see that happening...It's hard for me to imagine someone just leaving any human to simply die without giving them an opportunity to survive......I suppose there are those that would.......

Well that depends on the Nature of TSHF.

If it is a sudden die off from say disease, then most will be part of the first to contract said disease and die. Those who survive depending on what holding facility may live a bit longer trapped in a cell until lack of food and/or water gets them. Or if they are lucky they escape.

If they are your typical criminal type that is in our prison system, they will most likely find someplace to 'blend in' and take advantage of the New World Order. Having street smarts (most likely) they will rise to the top of what ever colony of survivors exist.

IF they are a real hardened, repeat offender like a murder, an organized crime type, they most likely would quickly rise to the top and become the leader and use their power to 'influence' the local area. Most likely it will be the biggest baddest MF from a prison who will reboot civilization.

If it is a slow predictable break from our world into something worse, then there are orders to 'clean up' the prison in the worst case scenarios, (kill them all) where there is no recovery in the long run. Of course this order most likely sits in the provisos in the governors office and you typical prison guard has no idea. Warden might have an idea.

As I recall, Reagan passed a nuclear bill that stipulated that criminals would be rounded up and taken to safety areas with the rest of the population. However they would be put on work programs to assist in the survival of the remaining population. The joke was that they would all be handed brooms and be sent out to sweep up the radioactive dust.

personally i think when the SHTF? They will be more people in prison! Why? Go do your own research about prison labor and how much of military equipment is now made by people in prison. Research the statistics of how much is actually produced in prisons. Slave labor is what it boils down to. When the SHTF all of us if not most of us will be in there for some BS reason. Seriously, just google prison labor statistics and it will make you sick.. when you find out how much stuff is being produced.. how much Wackenbut actually makes off this stuff. How my private prisons make off the gov and how much. You take a inmate that gets paid what? .25 a day maybe? if they even pay the inmates for their forced labor. Do you want some inmate making your military helmet?

So when the SHTF a lot of people are gonna end up in prison or some FEMA camp doing forced labor.

Slave labor! If they can't get you to be a slave to pay off your debt, then they are just going to throw you in somewhere.. personally I think before this whole other economic collapse happens again.. I think a bill will be passed that states that you have to pay off all your debt or serve time.

I have heard that before about the labor and the private businesses make. You guys paint a pretty gloomy picture for prisoners if things go bad. I would not want to be in prison if and when SHTF...........

no worries...they will/have gotten the swine flu shot