it’s like that prison warden who made sure prisoners had good food, because it’s just objectively an extremely cheap and easy way to prevent unrest.
Bread and circuses, give prisoners good food and entertainment, and you won’t have to hire 5 guards per prisoner and deal with all the headaches that come from people trying to break out and whatnot.
Who the fuck argues that? If they’re locked-up, the least you can do is give them the best possible computers, gyms, and therapists…
Plenty of people would rather we throw prisoners into a medieval dungeon because they’re obsessed with “punishment”.
Some negligible minority, sure.
Not negligible enough. You think it’s a coincidence that “tough on crime” is a consistently successful angle to push?
You think we live in a democracy?
it’s pushed in literally every country
Well may be not he “latest” high-end for gaming 4k 160fps, but… floppy disks?
But yes your point stands, if you want to give social reinsertion a chance.
They want inmates for life, doing slave labor.
It’s weasel words. Nobody is arguing “the latest”, just something from this century.
I do think we should give them the latest. They deserve it.
it’s like that prison warden who made sure prisoners had good food, because it’s just objectively an extremely cheap and easy way to prevent unrest.
Bread and circuses, give prisoners good food and entertainment, and you won’t have to hire 5 guards per prisoner and deal with all the headaches that come from people trying to break out and whatnot.