How Germany Does Prison

Re:How Germany Does Prison by JoeAltmaier on Friday October 23, 2015 @10:02AM (#10438573)

And yet...Texas made their lesser criminals plant potatoes in the hot Texas sun in the middle of nowhere. Recidivism dropped to almost nothing, for those crimes (petty theft etc).

Cruel? No, some folks line up to do those jobs. If its ok for Joe Shmoe to get paid minimum wage to do it, then its ok for inmates. Just hot and miserable.

Anyway, I'm 'incarcerated' in my cubicle for 8 hours a day. It definitely matters what treatment is inside the prison.

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Re:How Germany Does Prison by pstuart on Friday October 23, 2015 @11:26AM (#10439169)

> Anyway, I'm 'incarcerated' in my cubicle for 8 hours a day.

Really? You can't go to lunch when you want? Go for a coffee break? Call in sick when you aren't well? Quit that job if you find a better one?

Anybody who lines up for the opportunity to plant potatoes in the hot sun is clearly desperate for work. Desperate people will do lots of things that "normal" people would not.

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Re:How Germany Does Prison by OneTimePaddy on Friday October 23, 2015 @12:30PM (#10439638)

Thats what all the moral high horse talk boils down to- a revenge fantasy against those percived free

Thanks for proving a point i made somewhere up in the thread.

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