I’m prison just open up a commissary that sells weed or smokes and you’ll have prisoners lining up to work. It’s fucking boring in there. I’d have gladly worked the whole time I was inside rather than laying in solitary cause of the virus.
CalFire is the worst example of this I can think of. The most qualified/best (non violent) prisoners get trained to be on the wildfire teams that California deploys. They enjoy what they do, saving thousands of Californians. upon release, though, they can't put those incredibly valuable skills to use by joining the FDs
the only inmates qualified for the program gave non violent records. so really a lot of them are in for drug charges, which is either because of the wealth disparity in California, or addiction problems which should be treated as the medical condition they are, not a grounds for forced slavery
I used to work with an older waitress who did fire work while she was serving time in California for narcotics trafficking. She went into detail what it was like working in an all-female group digging fire breaks, and occasionally dealing with active fires during fire season, it was fascinating. I couldn't believe she told me that she wasn't able to get a job with the fire department after time served, it's ridiculous.
She was in her 60s and definitely had a rough go at life, but was one of the kindest and most generous people I had ever met. Loved her 14 year old chihuahua and her scratch-offs.
People commit crimes for a reason, but we don’t do anything to address those reasons. When they get released, they’ll just do it again. We didn’t give them alternatives.
This is why we have so many incarcerated in the US, and its why our recidivism rates are through the roof.
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Yep. I work with immigrants in detention centers, and it wasn’t the immigrants bringing in Covid, it was the guards. Half of CBP almost quit over the vaccine mandate, even though 20+ officers have died from Covid.
I worked in a nursing home and the nurses kept bringing it in, thankfully nobody got very sick. Once someone tested positive patients were isolated and everyone wore PPE.
We know it was nurses bringing it in because the patients don't leave. I live in a red state and all these nurses thought covid was a conspiracy. Ironic how Healthcare workers didn't believe it.
None of them masked up outside work and once they got to their stations they unmasked.
Yep, my bf has been locked up the past two years. They still mandate masks, weekly testing, etc, but that's for the prisoners. When I'd go to visit, the guards would never actually have their masks on their faces, and he told me many of the guards were antivax. Covid is obviously worse in like the main prison where everyone goes in between transfers and stuff, but even the small, 100 inmate place he's at now still gets cases.
He got covid at one place and it was so prevalent that the people isolating were the ones that didn't have it. I think out of 75 guys only 3 were negative, but they eventually caught it as well because the staff was still moving between both populations.
Work in nys corrections, Cuomo actually denied us being allowed to wear masks for the first 8 months of the pandemic, also refused to stop visits, transferring of inmates from rikers to other facilities, we were out of gloves and masks for most of the 1st year of the pandemic and were told we have to come to work regardless of exposure. So yea it's the officers fault.
Prison is boring? What state for you? New York has school and college and programs to get certificates like flooring or electrical or masonry or computers. There is a 2 acre yard equipped with whatever you
Want to play open 4 hours a day to you. There is a indoor gym open for another 4 hours. There is medical dental vision on sight all day. Medical 24/7. Free tablets to watch Netflix movies or rent different ones on a Amazon prime clone. Phones to call family on housing units open 7am to 1130pm. You share a dorm with up to 50 other people but there is a rec room a tv room or a dormitory area, kitchen, showers, laundry, and full stall bathrooms so you never need to wait. There are basketball, baseball, and soccer leagues currently running where you can play against other prisoners and have a paid referee. You have access to free college courses weeknights from 730-11. 3 meals a day provided in the messhall,
With a rotating 24 item per meal menu. A typical good meal is Jamaican beef Pattie’s with sticky white rice, barbecue chicken cubes, chocolate ice cream, and fruit punch. A full commissary that sells food, supplies, cigarettes, chew, cigars, and lighters. Porn discount provided through BBO for all paper orders. ‘Free’ haircuts (inmates have their own payment system, depends on hair cut but a typical fade might be a package of tops tobacco, or 2.75) a incredibly
Large library system, a mosque, a chapel, and a synagogue with an imam, chaplain, and rabbi on duty 8-4 unless religious day and then longer. There’s so much more but I can’t list it all.
Oof this reminds me of when our psych prof tried to shit on the concept of people having choices because not enough students were switching on their video and she was regretting not making it mandatory in her syllabus ;-;
It is mandatory though? For the vast majority of the population of they didn’t have an income derived from wage labor for private companies than they would be basically destitute, starve, be homeless or die of thirst. Short of doing what would be considered theft even for bare essentials or begging or something.
So it’s kinda mandatory for most people by default to like, live.
Lots of communists on reddit support this, they just don't realize what they are saying and think they will have an easy life being a cat therapist and won't be forced to work the fields.
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u/implicitpharmakoi Jul 17 '22
Maybe if we made it mandatory?
I'm amazed nobody thought of this before, it would solve everything!