• FaceDeer@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    “You can work and spend your entire pittance on ramen noodles, or you can go stir-crazy in your cell and eat stewed cardboard” is a voluntary choice only in the most strictly pedantic sense.

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      10 months ago

      That’s being a bit Hyperbolic, and these aren’t the types of prisons or jails where you’re stuck in a cell all day, that’s your misconception, the only people who are locked up like that are the ones that have proven themselves too dangerous to be around others, or at least that’s how it’s supposed to be when our prison system is working correctly, and the only prisons where that’s consistently their prison existence is the SuperMax prisons, because again, those people are too dangerous to let roam without supervision.

      Mostly it’s just a chance to get out from behind the walls and the fences, sure they’d rather be free, but I’m sure we’d all rather they not do shut that gets them put in prison, and regardless of your feelings towards prisons people who commit crimes, real crimes, belong there, or some form of prison that emphasizes rehabilitation.

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        10 months ago

        or at least that’s how it’s supposed to be when our prison system is working correctly

        Opinions on whether it’s “working correctly” is likely going to vary depending on whether you’re running a factory that depends on prison labor. Right now I think those factory owners would agree that it’s working correctly.