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Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
Might be a bit daft.
BUT, at least the homeless guy is going to have somewhere warm and dry to sleep at nights. Three square meals a day. Medical care. Access to library and possible education. TV. Radio. Clean laundry.
We have a similar argument in England.
Pensioners are so hard up some eat every other day. Don't put their heating on. Maybe don't see another soul for days !
Our doctors are so hard pushed pensioners would be lucky to see one within a week !
Yet crooks get free bed and board; socializing with fellow inmates; earn a small wage for doing little; free access to doctors and education etc.
Something is severely fucked up in the world !
BUT, at least the homeless guy is going to have somewhere warm and dry to sleep at nights. Three square meals a day. Medical care. Access to library and possible education. TV. Radio. Clean laundry.
We have a similar argument in England.
Pensioners are so hard up some eat every other day. Don't put their heating on. Maybe don't see another soul for days !
Our doctors are so hard pushed pensioners would be lucky to see one within a week !
Yet crooks get free bed and board; socializing with fellow inmates; earn a small wage for doing little; free access to doctors and education etc.
Something is severely fucked up in the world !
bijouxbroussard · F
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
Pureblossom · 22-25, F
@Picklebobble2: that's a another way to look at it 👍it's positive . However prison can also be hell , the guards might be cruel and power hungry making the inmates suffer cause they feel like it and they will be no one to report it to.Not to mention the other prisoners would be actual criminals lord knows what they will do to an unfortunate man who found himself locked up .
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
@Pureblossom: I'm a sociologist. Qualified. I track and watch human and economic trends with interest.
It always fascinated me how America seems to build ever bigger prisons without ever attacking the cause of whatever it is that causes so many to re-offend and subsequently go back to jail.
I read a report by an American sociologist recently, who believes that America builds prisons like the Brits. used to build Workhouses, back in the 18th century.
Because it's the cheapest way of 'looking after the poor' in the southern states !
That's a shocking indictment on the 'Land of the free !"
It always fascinated me how America seems to build ever bigger prisons without ever attacking the cause of whatever it is that causes so many to re-offend and subsequently go back to jail.
I read a report by an American sociologist recently, who believes that America builds prisons like the Brits. used to build Workhouses, back in the 18th century.
Because it's the cheapest way of 'looking after the poor' in the southern states !
That's a shocking indictment on the 'Land of the free !"
bijouxbroussard · F
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M