Not AMERICAN Jails!!You've never been to prison. My roommate in college was a nurse at a high security prison medical ward. The stories of what goes on in there are so disgusting I would get banned immediately if I told them on FR.
Cable TV, exercise rooms, libraries, three square meals a day, medical coverage, dental benefits - a lot of our inmates live better than the people paying the taxes to support them.
We should run our jails like the Romans ran their sulfur mines and quarries. Recidivism would be ZERO - for the survivors.
“You’ve never been to prison.”
No. But I have had experience in government I don’t care to elaborate on related to this subject.
I’m sure most of what you are referring to is due to the fact that we allow inmates to run the prisons. It isn’t the James Cagney days with the “hole” for trouble-makers.
Prisons and Jails should be tough - Joe Arapaio type tuff, where the control and discipline comes from the people running the jails not from gangstas and thugs who swagger around and runthings. And they kind of amenities I desscribed are available - all too often.
I guess there are some differences between states in this respect, but thanks to the ACLU and Court decisions, criminals aren’t treated as criminals by correctional facilities and the taxpayers bear the burden.