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I don't understand why they don't give inmates access to a computer for a few hours per day. When they're out the hard working ones will have programming skill
by VertexRed 10y ago
I don't understand why they don't give inmates access to a computer for a few hours per day.
When they're out the hard working ones will have programming skills which will help with the job hunt.
- DarthMader 10y agoThe goal of our penitentiaries isn't rehabilitation or to prepare inmates for a life outside of jail
- krapp 10y agoAnd more to the point, taxpayers don't want their money to go towards enriching the lives of inmates, only their punishment. "Why am I paying to have rapists, killers and thieves jerk around on the internet all day," they'll say, while voting out the party responsible and voting in the party promising to take the computers away and make the inmates break rocks in the sun until they drop.
- givinguflac 10y agoI couldn't agree more, he's told me stories of people there for decades to whom he has attempted to explain what computers or the Internet are like. But, it's basically like telling a fairy tale as everything, down to the concept of a mouse or GUI is imaginary to someone who hasn't seen real world technology in a long time. It's really sad.