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> although that privilege would be monitored and revoked Monitoring video-chat would require more guards, not fewer. Delivering food to each cell would take m

> although that privilege would be monitored and revoked Monitoring video-chat would require more guards, not fewer. Delivering food to each cell would take more staff, not fewer. > it would certainly be more pleasant for first-time offenders who don't fit into key prison demographics like the senator or probably you or I. Are you proposing "enhanced solitary" for all inmates, or just the ex-senators?

hugh4 11y ago
> Monitoring video-chat would require more guards, not fewer. >Delivering food to each cell would take more staff, not fewer. I looked up "guard to inmate ratio" and apparently about 1:5 is standard. So that's what we're trying to beat. Delivering food to each cell takes very little manpower. You'd only need to drop food once a day -- a hot dinner, plus some cold food for breakfast and lunch. (See? We're already teaching our prisoners important life skills, like thinking ahead -- don't eat all that food immediately or you'll be hungry at lunchtime tomorrow! They'll learn that one in a few days.) One guy could easily serve hundreds of cells, over a period of a couple of hours. (Think about flight attendants... heck, think about mailmen.) As for monitoring video chat, that would take some manpower, but you wouldn't need to monitor every chat all the time, you'd just pop in every now and then to make sure people weren't forming the wrong kinds of relationships. > Are you proposing "enhanced solitary" for all inmates, or just the ex-senators? All inmates. There's probably some for whom it would be less pleasant -- e.g. the gang leaders who currently enjoy high status among their fellow prisoners. It would be a lot more pleasant for those who don't come from traditional prison demographics. That's fine, we're trying to make prison equally pleasant/unpleasant for everybody.

hugh4 11y ago

> Monitoring video-chat would require more guards, not fewer. >Delivering food to each cell would take more staff, not fewer. I looked up "guard to inmate ratio" and apparently about 1:5 is standard. So that's what we're trying to beat. Delivering food to each cell takes very little manpower. You'd only need to drop food once a day -- a hot dinner, plus some cold food for breakfast and lunch. (See? We're already teaching our prisoners important life skills, like thinking ahead -- don't eat all that food immediately or you'll be hungry at lunchtime tomorrow! They'll learn that one in a few days.) One guy could easily serve hundreds of cells, over a period of a couple of hours. (Think about flight attendants... heck, think about mailmen.) As for monitoring video chat, that would take some manpower, but you wouldn't need to monitor every chat all the time, you'd just pop in every now and then to make sure people weren't forming the wrong kinds of relationships. > Are you proposing "enhanced solitary" for all inmates, or just the ex-senators? All inmates. There's probably some for whom it would be less pleasant -- e.g. the gang leaders who currently enjoy high status among their fellow prisoners. It would be a lot more pleasant for those who don't come from traditional prison demographics. That's fine, we're trying to make prison equally pleasant/unpleasant for everybody.