You meet the nicest people in prison

[Hara!]

http://jimgoad.net/nicest.html?top

Why? Because they know what it feels like to be locked up and treated like an animal. Because they know that placing a human being in a cage is a crime in itself. Because, despite whatever they've done in the past, they've learned one ethical lesson that no District Attorney or scared mindless taxpayer ever learned; it's immoral to lock people up. Because they know that being locked in a box, day in and day out for years and years, is more destructive to the human soul than being assaulted or raped. Because, despite the fact that you're a peckerwood and he's a brutha, you're all wearing the same blue uniform and you're all soldiers against a common enemy. Because, in a weird way, you are brought together by compassion. The compassion of dudes helping dudes. I worried about the guards. I worried about returning to a society whose members would never understand what it feels like to be squashed inside a sardine can for 876 straight nights. But I didn't worry about the inmates." What does it say about SOCIETY that they need to see us as zoo beasts? It says they couldn't justify caging us otherwise.

[Vaikyuko]

Society has never exactly been the kindest bunch, but to say prison is immoral is stupid.

What do you punish criminals with, then? We could always fall back on older methods, like clippings hands off of thieves. Oh wait, that's barbaric.

[tenshi_a]

I think you miss the point... the point is, if a prisoner thinks that their punishment of being detained feels like being punished, well, it's supposed to, isn't it?

[Delta-Pheonix]

Boo hoo, If you can't do the time don't do the crime.

[Bernard_Monsha]

Because they know that being locked in a box, day in and day out for years and years, is more destructive to the human soul than being assaulted or raped.

I think they should be locked in a box, assaulted, and raped. That might make up some of the karma balance.

[kenshinbebop]

Tell me about it. I remember when I was in the state Pen.

I met such nice people! Oh the stories!

Especially my cell mate Bubba, he did such nice things to--for-- me.

:(

[Opium Tea]

----What are we supposed to do with the crazed serial killers then? Invite them in for tea?

[Samurai Drifter]

Yeah, prison is bad.

...If it were up to me convicted criminals would become the subjects of medical testing and scientific experiments.

[ecchi]

If I was to be trapped in a cage for years without access to the outside world then I'd rather die. Prison is developed as a punishment so I guess it's alright that the criminals recieve such punishment. At least they didn't get the death penalty...

[Opium Tea]

...If it were up to me convicted criminals would become the subjects of medical testing and scientific experiments.

Well now that's just awful---

---I'm pretty sure the Nazis did that XP

[ZeroRyoko1974]

Because they know that being locked in a box, day in and day out for years and years, is more destructive to the human soul than being assaulted or raped.
sounds like working in a cube farm :lol:

[lav2k4]

----What are we supposed to do with the crazed serial killers then? Invite them in for tea?

Kill them as soon as they are arrested.

[The Million Dollar Prons]

Why not, just, ya know, escape from prison?

[Samurai Drifter]

Well now that's just awful---

---I'm pretty sure the Nazis did that XP
Nazis did it to innocent people, not people who committed crimes. They'll be suffering either way for their wrongdoing; they might as well serve society at the same time.

[Ikari Warrior]

So, we are to debate the ethics of prison, now? Personally, I think SOME prison sentences are too harsh. Specifically with drug charges. Those people should be required to do community service, and get drugs off the streets on which they so willingly distributed.

I think society would benefit greatly from persons doing community service than rotting in a prison; I mean community service that makes sense. Some way to repair society in the same way these people damaged it. Or if these criminals have skills, they should be in the employ of the government or somesuch and use their skills to serve the public which they have wronged.

In this way, perhaps, prisons could be seen as a common dwelling for criminals who shouldn't be allowed to interact with society except through work-release. It's all very utopian thinking, and it will likely never happen.

So, in the meantime, prison is a necessity, and as one poster said - if you can't do the time, don't do the crime.

[earsofdoom]

My only real problem with prisons are they are soppoused to reform peaple so that they can rejoin society. most prisons don't really do that and instead just lock them up, and then release them and chances are they will be right back in the same month for the same crime. especially in the case of criminals whom have been in for 20 years or more (imagine going to jail in the 80's and then being released today? the world has changed quite a bit) and its hard to rebuild your life with a criminal record and a couple of dollars your given on your way out the door.

[Tuna]

He sure says "almost no", "seemed", and "I never saw" a bit much...
XD

I'm curious to find out what he did to be there in the first place, how large of a fellow he is, and if he's just one of those guys who can talk himself out of any situation - until then, I'm taking this with a huge grain of salt...

[goddessofanime]

Sure you meet nice people in prison when you bend over in the shower while a huge man named Bubba hands you some soap with his p*nis or a large lesbian as big as a pickup truck wants to 'cuddle' in bed.

[Hara!]

He´s not really complaining. He´s saying it´s nicer than expeted due to a combination of fear, common sense, and more people being sent to prison for smaller crimes.

[earsofdoom]

He´s not really complaining. He´s saying it´s nicer than expeted due to a combination of fear, common sense, and more people being sent to prison for smaller crimes.

He does kinda make sense (though i disagree with parts of what he says), prison is kinda its own little "society" in a way, my trip to one in law studies was very interesting when i saw first hand "prison justice" (you know, basically how child molesters and those whom commited crimes against the elderly are looked down upon and often assaulted) which made me interested in the whole prison society besides the don't-drop-the-soap jokes.

[Leinhart]

I can't believe no1 said this yet

Don't drop the soap

well goddess sorta did, but what i said is more direct!