Conflicted - yes bad on many levels - but - it does make them pay for their protective - maybe if the made them pay much more if they were very rich. Want seal beach hedge fund guy? congrats - you get to subsidize courses for other prisoners with your $2,500 a night stay.
This is the part I found most funny
“Equal” justice hasn’t existed in this country for over 30 years.
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The real story isn’t that rich people get to pay for better conditions – it’s that we’re perfectly fine with keeping any people in the sort of conditions that have remained unaddressed in LA County jails for decades.
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The LA Times reports that "allowing some defendants to avoid the region’s notoriously dangerous county jails has long rankled some in law enforcement who believe it runs counter to the spirit of equal justice.
To be clear, some law enforcement are rankled that not all defendants are sent to notoriously dangerous jails. Not that some prisoner’s get special privileges, but that don’t have to run the risk of getting shived in their bunk.
Yes, prisons and jails are meant to punish, but the punishment is supposed to be deprivation of liberty, not risk to life and limb. What kind of society are we if the people who are charged with enforcing are laws are disappointed that some convicted criminals will only lose their liberty, but don’t risk death or maiming as part of their punishment?
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What did you do?
you monster
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Maybe make the rich inmates pay for the poor inmates?
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Wrong thread?
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His accommodations in Alcatraz were notably less posh.
Of course by that point is brain was riddled by untreated syphilis so he may not have even noticed.
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Tumbrels.
Every day in every way we are getting closer to tumbrels.
Possibly for the best, really.
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It’s an update of a decades-old meme: ginning up outrage over prisoners having some “luxury” that most Americans took for granted. It used to be color TVs, even after that became the only kind that you could buy.
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But that would be dirty, naughty socialism!
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I’m reminded of the 1999 movie called Plunkett and Macleane that depicted an 18th century prison in England. The more upper class you were, the better treatment you got, but it cost you.
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Supposedly, the depiction of prison in Goodfellas is no exaggeration.
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I look at it from the opposite point of view. Why do we force the vast majority of prisoners to live in such dehumanizing conditions that people are willing to spend hundreds of dollars a night to serve their time in a local jail instead?
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That’s how markets are made.
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Better than “not… terrible”. His stay included food.
BTW: Try very hard to never get busted in LA.
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Yeah, yeah…
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There’s a portion of the homeless population that actively try to get arrested just to have “three hots and a cot”, (three hot meals a day and a bed at night).
In county everyone is forced to watch those new curved screen TVs that pick up every reflection in the room.
