Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/05/06/michael-cohen-checks-into-one.html
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Serving time with “The Situation.”
This closely resembles my idea of hell.
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The jail can’t be that cushy…
No one is surprised to learn that the “tough guy” is thriving in the new environment. His friend, Snooki , previously told E! News that Mike is “having the time of his life.”
She joked, “It’s like his in a senior home, he’s playing Bingo, he’s helping people recover in jail.”
Oh, it looks like summer camp complete with prisoners looking like they wear camp counselor uniforms.
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Michael Cohen is reporting to prison today to serve a three-year sentence for lying to Congress at the explicit direction of donald trump
there - fixed that for you
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The outrage here isn’t that Cohen and 115 or so American prisoners have access to these humane conditions - it’s that all the others don’t.
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Somehow I’ll bet the racial demographics at this prison aren’t the same as at your typical American prison.
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So - it’s basically like what all of our prisons should be?
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And Billy McFarland of Fyre Festival infamy.
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Oh, cool, my mom lives right near that prison!
It’s in a nice area. Forest covered “mountains*,” rivers, wetlands, etc.
I never knew it was a country club sort of place.
*Mountain in the east coast “kind of a tall hill” sense of the word.
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This.
It’s easy to turn a human being into an animal and have him/her behave correspondingly. It’s a lot harder to turn that animal back into a human being. The first step to the re-transformation should start with humane conditions, to remind each person that he/she has value beyond their ability to meet their survival needs, and to provide them the tools with which they can build a life once they complete their incarceration.
Unfortunately, the inmates in in the “cushy” prisons like these are likely to view themselves as above the law, and view their “imprisonment” as a punishment only for getting caught, and never for doing the enormous harm that they did.to all of us.
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So how is it decided who gets the cushy prisons? Is it judges or the prison service? Are there published regulations or guidelines?
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Well thank god he didn’t enroll his children in the wrong school district or he’d have done real time:
https://www.afro.com/commentary-the-black-women-jailed-for-stealing-an-education/
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One wonders what the penal system and recidivism would look like if all prisons in the US were this civilized. (Yes, yes, I know “civilized prison” is an oxymoron. You know what I mean. 
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Depends on the crime. Nonviolent white collar crimes with light sentences like Cohen’s usually go to the cushier places.
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Have fun Mike, and don’t worry about the tab, the US taxpayers are picking that up.
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Sounds like a great networking meet-up camp.
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Melanin content and size of your bank account.
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exactly this. And in Cohen’s case…it’s apt IMO.
It constantly amazes me that Trump and other Republicans try to discredit Cohen as a “convicted liar,” presumably counting on the fact that people don’t know for which lie he was convicted… I mean, sure, yeah, listen to Trump, not the guy who was caught in the lie of, “Donald Trump is telling the truth.”
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And there it is. The honest truth.
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