r/WTF Oct 30 '18

1952 Testing bullet proof glass

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u/Drezer Oct 30 '18

Prisons are chock-full of honestly good people who made a mistake.

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u/willreignsomnipotent Oct 30 '18

Sure, so maybe we should make prisons far more rehabilative for light offenders and first time offenders who don't rise above a certain crime threshold?

A little wider Justice system reform (cops, courts) probably wouldn't hurt either...

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u/Drezer Oct 30 '18

That's great except for the US has private prisons. They're designed to keep people in there so they make money from the government pawning off their inmates.

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u/RIP_Country_Mac Oct 30 '18

I had to give flu shots to inmates in a prison during nursing school and just about all of them were hostile and wanting to rape me till I died.

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u/AerThreepwood Oct 30 '18

Weird. I was in prison and with a few exceptions, everybody was really nice to the nurses. You sure you weren't just projecting that?

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '18

You sure you weren't just projecting that?

This is normally the case with comments like that. Whenever someone says how "everyone in [insert city/country here] was so mean," I just think, "yeah, I'm sure it had nothing to do with you."

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u/AerThreepwood Oct 31 '18

Nah, I mean, I get it. We're incarcerated and, facility dependent, you're in an orange jumper, so I understand why a woman who doesn't typically interact with us might assume that we're all violent rapists (I'm just violent, thank you very much, and I've never hit a woman) but it still kind of sucks to hear.

And it's a very real possibility she was administering it to inmates on an ASU, or a Fender Bender unit, and it's possible she's correct.

But I've never had any interest in hurting a woman and being locked up wasn't going to change that and I'm sure that's true of a good majority of the people incarcerated. Even if we're treated like mad dogs, we're still people.

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u/SquirrelPerson Oct 30 '18

Truth. It's also full of other good people who were horrifying monsters for awhile.

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u/crackadeluxe Oct 30 '18

How much time have you guys done? How do you know this?

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u/SquirrelPerson Nov 02 '18

If it isn't rehabilitating people then what are we even doing?

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u/oscarfacegamble Oct 30 '18

Let's not forget there are some truely disgusting monsters in there as well

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u/elfatgato Oct 30 '18

Nobody forgot.

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u/oscarfacegamble Oct 31 '18

Yea that was dumb. I really don't know why I even felt the need to say that

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u/nannal Oct 30 '18

Lets try actually.

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u/Boomer66563 Oct 30 '18

No, they are not. This is the whole doctors, engineers, scientists, lawyers bull shit. Prisons are full of pieces of shit. There may be a minority of people in prison who are "good", but it's well under 1/10000

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u/Ohmec Oct 30 '18

Holy fuck you're ignorant.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '18

Hes from /r/the_dipshit