About Prison Conditions (long)

[Lady's Human]

It should be. There are many crimes that shouldn't be jailable offenses, though.

[Catlady711]

I had a cousin that got nabbed (I can't remember for what but it was serious) in FLA quite some time back. He got put on a chain gang cleaning up along the highways and other such manual labor. After he got out he made a point to never do anything like that again, and never did.

I think what most people think of as above and beyond 'humane' conditions for prisoners are what they are protesting. Prisons like this (found in Austria according to snopes) are just plain ridiculous. It's supposed to be a prison not a freaking resort!

http://www.snopes.com/photos/architecture/prison.asp

[RICHARD]

Let's put this b&w issue into a more relative term.

Economy.

People are really hurting at the moment because they choose to live over their means at the moment.

I don't feel sorry for them. As a matter of fact THEY are the reason we are in this hole.........Poor judgement?

NOPE, the same stupidity that puts people into jail.

What jails or prisons give the inmates more than what we on the outside have?

TV? A gym? Food? Medical care?

They don't have cable and the movie channels. Most of us go to a doc that is covered by the insurance our employers have. We buy a year's worth of 24 Hour Fitness! They are served slop that the city/county buys for them.

We can leave our homes, jump into the car and get a few things off of the dollar menu of the local fast food joint, when we decide to forgo the manicure, hair cut or latte.

It's just the level of stupidity that steers our ship. It's all about dumb choices and paying the piper when they knock on the door.

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And isn't it amazing when we hem and haw about a death penalty case comes up. Someone is put to death for killing another person - but we ignore the fact that this system puts to death an average of one person a month in the four years since 2004 -for nothing more that being a low level criminal?

Don't get me wrong-screw up and pay the price - and people do.

MSNBC runs a series on prisons and inmates.

Having caught a few episodes I can see that the basic needs they get while in the can are nothing that I can get for myself. I don't have to share a closet to live in, I can come and go as I please and I am not looking over my shoulder at all times.

If the arguement is that inmates have it better than people on the outside, the problem rests with the people who can improve their status, but do not.