Disagree. Prisons should be for rehabilitation, not punishment. You shouldn’t want to go to prison, but you should come out better than you went in.
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MisterMoo@lemmy.world 5 days ago
This only bothers me to the extent that it affects the innocent who are in prison. For the rest, this inconvenience is part of the punishment you’re serving.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
I would say this punishment would be both cruel and unusual.
gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Also, it’s arbitrary and capricious - this is hitting everyone in the prison, regardless of their sentence, just because they happen to be incarcerated at the wrong place and time
Brownboy13@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Shouldn’t the point of prison rehabilitation be that the inmates be encouraged to build stronger social connections to reduce recidivism? Isolating and further punishing them like this seems like it’s going to make it more difficult to rebuild their lives post incarceration.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 4 days ago
Author of this article is serving a life sentence. He’s been in prison over 10 years so far, and won’t be eligible for parole for another 52 years. “Post incarceration”, he’ll be mailed to his next of kin in a tiny plastic bag.
I do think he should be earning at least minimum wage for his work while imprisoned, but $6.25 of his $7.25/hr wages should be garnished and divided among the estates of his victims.