At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt

Re:At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt by superchroma on Saturday August 27, 2022 @03:51PM (#32622518)

It can't work. Prisons in places like Indonesia and the Philippines are objectively degrading and inhumane. That's not winning, and that's not a working system. That's focusing on one aspect of a greater whole at the expense of our humanity.

America has had more than a fair go at a heavy handed anti-drug policy and it was and continues to be a spectacular failure. To sit here at the end of it and say that they didn't go hard enough, (particularly after horrific actions such as poisoning marijuana and therefore smokers with paraquat) is monstrous.

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Re:At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt by etaioinshrdlu on Saturday August 27, 2022 @03:53PM (#32622543)

I was thinking more about Japan, Singapore, China, Taiwan.

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Re:At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt by tluyben2 on Saturday August 27, 2022 @04:54PM (#32623101)

Outside Japan (I haven’t been there often enough to know), the others it’s definitely not true. It is easy to get, many people use, foreigners and natives. I got offered (I stick to beer) on many business meetings. It’s not so public probably, but what does that say?

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Re:At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt by superchroma on Sunday August 28, 2022 @07:20AM (#32627466)

I was definitely under the impression that some american fentanyl is coming from china.

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