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It all sounds good, until you get to the barcodes: > "Prisoners each have a bar code they can scan, ..." > "When an inmate’s bar code is scanned, prison offic
by holyjaw 13y ago
It all sounds good, until you get to the barcodes:
> "Prisoners each have a bar code they can scan, ..."
> "When an inmate’s bar code is scanned, prison officials would be alerted that they should receive a diabetic meal, or a Halal or Kosher meal."
- DanBC 13y agoI'm not quite sure what your point is?
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- downandout 13y agoUmm what? It's prison. It is 100% intended to be totalitarian.
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- bmelton 13y agoI understand your point, and this might just be speculation, but I would assume (with zero constructive knowledge on the subject) that prisoners would have to present the card in order to get food. At least, that's how my daughter's school lunch-line works.
- wisty 13y agoWell I think it's a worry that your daughter's school canteen is better run than the prison system.
- bmelton 13y agoI don't actually know that it is. I've heard a variety of complaints from her about it mostly to do with timing / waiting / etc. That said, she does have a card that she pays with, and it would be easy (at least in theory) to require that of prison inmates as well.
- jessaustin 13y agoIf possession of a card determines whether and how much one eats, then in violent environments we would expect some to eat a great deal and others to go without completely.
- jlgreco 13y agoI had a card with a barcode on it that I used in public school in the US for lunches.
- jack-r-abbit 13y agoEvery time I leave my office block, I have to use a card touched to a reader to badge back in. Oh... the horror!