I came across this today, and it reminded me of the movie Shawshank Redemption, which was actually written as a novella by Stephen King originally. The scene I am thinking of is with the older man, I don't remember is name. He asks to use the restroom. The employer looks at him as if he is a fool. But, his entire adult life, that is exactly what he has done. He doesn't know how to live without the direction of the guards. He has been resocialized, or institutionalized. I experienced a similar effect when I came home from Basic Training. I missed the routine, the lack of decisions (I almost wrote choices), and the lack of responsibility. It was like a vacation in some respects. Anyway, it can be overwhelming to reenter life, and its complexities when you have been out of it for so long. The following article is about a man who sought to go back to prison.
CHICAGO (AP) — After spending
most of his adult life behind bars, 73-year-old Walter Unbehaun decided to rob another
bank in hopes of getting caught. He felt more comfortable in prison, court
documents allege, and wanted to spend his final years there.
So the balding, gray-haired South Carolina man leaned on a cane as he walked
into a bank in suburban Chicago over the weekend and used a novel stickup line:
He had just six months to live, so he had nothing left to lose, according to a
federal complaint citing his post-arrest interrogation.
Unbehaun also allegedly lifted his coat to
show a teller a silver revolver shoved into his waistband.
Investigators say Unbehaun, of Rock Hill,
S.C., walked out of the Harris Bank in Niles on Saturday with $4,178
in his pockets. He wore no disguises, so law enforcement quickly tracked him
down using surveillance-camera photos of him holding up the bank, the complaint
said.
When authorities stopped Unbehaun on Sunday outside a motel room where he was
staying, he immediately threw down his cane and surrendered, saying he knew they
were there because he robbed a bank the day before, according to the complaint
filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago.
Unbehaun told investigators hours after his arrest that he had spent most of
his adult life in prison and "felt more comfortable in prison than out."
"He wanted to do something that would guarantee that he would spend the rest
of his life in prison, and he knew that robbing a bank with a loaded gun would
accomplish that," according to the complaint, signed by FBI agent Chad
Piontek.
Contacted on Tuesday, Unbehaun's defense attorney, Richard McLeese, declined
comment.
Unbehaun's most recent stint behind bars
ended in 2011, when he was released after serving 10 years for a 1998 bank robbery. His
Illinois record alone includes multiple other felonies dating back decades.
Unbehaun made an initial court appearance Monday in Chicago and was ordered
to remain in jail pending further court procedures. No additional hearing dates
were set.
If he is eventually convicted on the new bank robbery charge, he could be
sent to prison for up to 20 years.
http://news.yahoo.com/fbi-elderly-ex-con-robbed-bank-hopes-prison-010514734.html
