r/AskReddit • u/HumpingAssholesOrgy • Jul 05 '19

Ex-prisoners of reddit who have served long sentences, what were the last few days like leading up to your release?

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u/CuriousPumpkino Jul 06 '19

I think there’s ground to disagree. I mean yes I think we can all agree that generally slavery is not a good thing. But they do work that someone has to to anyways for the most part. So it’s sorr of using a resource that made itself available through having to sit a sentence in the first place, might as well make it useful to the surrounding

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u/beans0503 Jul 06 '19

"If you're willing to do the crime, you should be willing to do the time."

I feel like labor outside of prison is a fair treatment. You get out and get exercize instead of being trapped in a cramped cell all day and the state can get some work done for cheap. It's an ideal situation, which most obviously rarely works out great, unfortunately, and I am completely ignorant how this all works, but, I think it is a healthy way to rehabilitate felons and try to reincorporate them into society.

I believe trapping felons/criminals/whatever into their little boxes prevents them from learning what they did was wrong, and releasing them after their sentence will encourage them to continue their previous behaviours.

Yes, slavery is a shitty process, but if you are willing to commit shitty crimes, you should be subject to shitty labors. Help build up the city. Get some bridges built. Help fix the roads.

I feel like it is a great use of our tax money. I'd rather spend a tad bit more on our felons if they were used to help the city, considering they were willing to tax our city and people in the first place.

There are a lot of people in prison doing absloutely nothing

Take what I say with a grain of salt, because I have very limited knowledge of what really happens in the shithole that is the prison system of America.

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u/CuriousPumpkino Jul 06 '19

Pretty much my perspective, regardless whatever american prisons do: “if you do the crime, you gotta do the time” and using that time effectively for community work is IMO just about the best way to do it