Prisoner Strikes

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(08-21-2018, 04:28 AM)Dill Wrote: I support most of the demands.  Ex felons should be able to vote. Not sure about people serving time. Rehabilitation should be the goal of incarceration.

The first impact the strike will have is to raise awareness of prison conditions.  Hopefully Trump will tweet something nasty and inhumane, and it will be covered on the news. Could be a wedge issue in the upcoming elections, though.

I don't have a problem with prison labor per se, but I do have a problem with others profiting off it, and perhaps driving up the inmate count.
And I agree with Benton--way too many people in prison for non-violent, especially drug-related crimes.

I sort of agree, but there's simply some people I am not sure I want to have the same amount of say as me when it comes to deciding a county/state/country's future.

I mean, do you really want a convicted child pornographer to have the same vote/voting power as you? Or do you want Bernie Madoff to be able to have an equal say as you on any matters that involve money? That white nationalist who murdered the girl with his car in Charlottesville would get the same vote as you when it comes to who should lead our country.

In the end, I don't really see a good way to split the ones you don't want from the pack.

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As for the rest of your post, I think rehabilitation only works for those who want it, which isn't as much as an optimist might like to believe. If you found it morally easy to rob a bank/mug a person/rape a person/whatever, I don't think there's a whole lot you can do. It would work for the people who had like crimes of passion, or driven to sudden impulses, but there's also just a lot of naturally bad people out there. You also can't cure stupid.

I think this strike will probably have the exact same effect as the 2016 one that I feel like the vast majority of the country didn't knew happened. Nothing. Regular folk have enough crap to worry about in their own lives to worry about a carjacker/drug dealer/fraudster/manslaughterer/etc complaining about things.

I do agree that prison labor shouldn't be a for-profit venture, but I fully agree that prison labor should be a thing to offset the cost of their incarceration. I also think that some prisons are already too soft with TVs, gyms, libraries, multiple hot meals a day, free education, hot water, fresh laundry... those are things that not even everyone who isn't in prison get to enjoy.