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> You can't give prisoners free, high-quality education, no matter how helpful it would be to prevent crime after they're released, if you're not giving it to t
by pxeboot 4y ago
> You can't give prisoners free, high-quality education, no matter how helpful it would be to prevent crime after they're released, if you're not giving it to the general public, or else the general public would commit crimes to be educated.
Doesn't the US do exactly that with health care? I have heard of a few people committing crimes to get free treatment, but it doesn't appear to be a widespread issue.
- Nasrudith 4y agoPrison healthcare exists but is by no means a gold standard. It just needs to be good enough to not be negligence or abuse in terms of obligations. The stories are still rare enough to warrant their own news articles. There is a long history of infamous "donut holes" in medical coverage via things like Medicaid on state by state basis. Even without the benefits people become better off as a write-off to collectors than to attempt pursuit, a state somewhat derogatorily called judgement-proof.
- t-3 4y agoYep. IIRC, if you've been incarcerated in the past year, that's an automatic in to state healthcare. They don't exactly advertise this, but it's pretty well-known.