Has it ever existed?
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I hope you’re right. I plan on trying out the razor blade cut garlic to see if it dissolves as described in the scene.
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Can we start posttending?
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Mmmmmm. The ‘rustic’ walls go nicely with upholstery and rug. Quite tasteful.
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Safe, comfy jails?
Humane stir.
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ran networking cable! 
(which is trickier then you might think with the ways the walls are constructed and the fact that you can’t just make holes.)
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See, this is where I would get in trouble.
I have an impact hammer in my car at all times.
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Road Rage Pro™ remind me not to cut you off…heehee.
Or is that just in case a bakery truck flips on the highway, so you can rescue all the fresh baked breads?
(…of course in my mind, it is an industrial size impact hammer, and you are wearing a ghostbuster costume.)
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I carping wish. It is a small one (15 amp I think?), but it isn’t the size of your impact. It is the… Wait, I crafted that joke wrong.
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It pays to be wealthy in American justice.
That’s a crime.
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There’s a chapter on that in one of Mayhew’s books. Probably London Labor and the London Poor. We’ve come full circle to Dickens’ England.
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Is this distinct from the sponging house?
True. Justice for all doesn’t apply to all.
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It would be nice if there was some kind of a merit system for the nonviolent offenders to work their way up to better facilities and amenities. Someone really commits to making themselves a better person when they get out, perhaps they should get better amenities. Remember I said nonviolent. I’m very much a “law and order” kind of guy but I never understood the acceptance of inmate on inmate violence, rape and murder as part of the system. Mostly used to comedic effect by the so-called “enlightened” Hollywood entertainment industry.
Exactly - I don’t think prisoners should be allowed any kind of luxury at all. Unless it was something like drug use, petty theft, or something non-violent anyway. Thugs, wife beaters, child molestors, murderers all deserve to be treated like that garbage they are.
Because our goal is to make them into recalcitrant garbage in time to be released back into society?
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There often (but not always) is. What people who complain about “luxuries” for the incarcerated are missing is that those are tools of control. You fuck up, you lose TV privileges. You fuck up more, you lose commissary access. You fuck up real bad, you get sent to the hole.
Good behavior on the other hand can get you a little more freedom, maybe your psycho murderer cellmate gets swapped out for a milquetoast embezzler, maybe you get trusty duties, maybe you get time off your sentence.
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Which is why, in my neighbourhood, the Corrective Services Union usually objects strenuously whenever there’s a push to remove such “luxuries”.
Guarding prisoners ain’t much fun at the best of times. Guarding prisoners when they’re bored out of their minds is even less fun.
The prisoners will make their own distraction if they have to, and if the only way to relieve the boredom is a prison riot, that’s what you’ll get. Similarly, if the only compliance tool available to the guards is violence, then escalating brutality is what you’ll get.
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How do you imagine we get thugs, wife beaters, child molesters and murderers in the first place?
Do you think some people are just born as monsters beyond redemption, or you think maybe their environments contribute to the situation?
And who the fuck are you, or anyone, to claim you’re qualified to judge someone a lost cause? A society that dodges its responsibilities like this by washing its hands of its failures, blaming individuals for being forsaken while refusing to invest in people, is revoltingly hypocritical and fucking barbaric.
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