Originally published at: Jail rewarding inmates with free ramen if they get vaccinated | Boing Boing
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Wait… so the state can take your physical autonomy away by locking you in jail and denying you basic human comforts and freedoms—to the point where even ramen noodles are a luxury—but they can’t compel you to get vaccinated against a contagious disease that has ravaged imprisoned populations across the country?
The US penal system is weird.
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Those three exclamation points at the end make me feel such a dark, confused jumble of emotions.
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Right?
The real story here, seems to me, is what this offer says about how horrible food, and maybe the lack thereof, normally is in this jail.
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And not included in the story, the price of those 10 ramen soup packets in the commissary is very likely between $30 and $50. The system is a huge grift.
(That article doesn’t include prices on ramen, but does include discussion of the prison diet that is quite depressing.)
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Yea, His Noodly Appendages reach verily unto the US prison system, too.
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I’m sure that there will be some creative cooking going on.
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It is weird. But also, uh, kinda a good thing. I mean this vaccine is safe and tested, but theoretically they could use prisoners as a guinea pigs for untested treatments if they had that power.
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I believe many jurisdictions already require prisoners to be vaccinated against things like Measles for the sake of community health. I frankly don’t see the difference.
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This is the county jail, not the state prison. A lot of these folks won’t have been convicted of anything yet and so that may have some control over whether the state can force them to get a vaccine.
Plus, it’s possible that the warden is thinking it’s just less of a PITA for his staff if these guys go in willingly and leave with some ramen instead of having a big throw down.
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I’m gonna guess you’ll see some states shifting to mandates for it now that pfizer has gotten full approval.
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I was going to do an Everybody Loves Ramen joke, but then I googled it and apparently I am the last person to think this up…
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And the first person to admit it. These are the Boing Boing Boards, and we love you because of that! 
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Monosodium Glutamate is a powerful motivator.
The extra exclamation points ups the ante from ACTUALLY REAL MEATLOAF AND REAL MASHED POTATOES NITE!
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