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Originally posted by MagiK:
State penetentiary in State College Pennsylvania (along route 322) is not too bad compared to some of the military barracks I have lived in. Cells are clean and not as cramped as some, good lighting, a tolerable amount of personal space, prisoners have access to cable TV (52" screen) computer work stations, a top of the line Library, they receive 3 meals a day and have both AC and heating when appropriate.
They have new nautilus equipment, a golf driving range, several basketball courts, a football field and a dairy farm that prisoners may work on.
Of course they have no control over their daily schedule, they get up when told, they go to bed when told ....how exactly is this different than being a kid living at home? or enlisted in the Navy?
Ok when your a kid living at home your parents love you....but still I think there is little room for complaint by those prisoners.
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One prison does not a penitentiary system make.
Many prisons all over America are cramped and crowded, with people living in terrible conditions, often locked in cells for more than 18 hours a day.
Besides why should prisoners be treated badly? What they receive in that prison sounds perfectly reasonable to me, since they still have human rights.
And before you go moaning about how “innocent people starve on the street” consider WHY these people starve on the street,
If you want lower taxes and more free market and capitalism, (therefore less of a welfare state), that is the price you will have to pay. For that will be an inevitable result of capitalism and the free market, under capitalism & free market at least you simply cannot escape people starving in the streets.