Hmm, maybe that's the case in US, but here in India, it is seen as a training programme, so they have necessary skills to make a decent and honest living when they get released from the prison. It's called the rehabitalation programme. Between what do you think would be a good use of these prisoners? We can't obviously feed them for free. Personally I think, instead of testing drugs on poor people or people of third world countries, better test on these prisoners, to make their life worthwhile for others.
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Well I believed the same thing you stated about India is true for Germany. They can even get a (non-college) degree in our prisons. The truth is tho that they are forced to work for 9% of the normal wage, this is actually a law of our constitution that I was not aware of until I googled 2 hours ago. Also our private manufacturers feel a lot of pressure from the cheap labor out of prison.
Ya here also they are allowed to study and get college degrees. Some of them end up getting real good jobs after coming out of the prisons.
I do not think the working and learning of the convicts is the problem. It is rather the infrastructure around it. You could easily prevent the pressure on the free market, by in example putting an extra tax on prison produced products or make a law that companies are only allowed to produce max 10% of their goods in prison.
Hmm, I guess conditions are very different here and in West. Here we tend to increase their production more and more, and people also support products made by prisoners in order to encourage them. And the big fact is that most of the prisoners are only for some months. Out of them many are involved in the regular jail tasks only, like cooking, cleaning, serving etc. And the rest work in the factories. So not much impact on the outside labor force.
where do you come from, if I may ask?
India.
ah yeah, you mentioned that in the beginning. I often spun an idea about getting rid of prison completely. Monitor, coach and punish the people in the real world.
10 years in prison are not that good of a preparation for a normal live and it can also lead into a downward spiral, because they might get criminal connections to other inmates.
In the US once you are released from prison you have a permanent black mark. It can be very difficult to get work. In fact some people end up committing crimes to intentionally get thrown back into prison as they can no longer survive very well in society.
Hmm, well yes black mark remains. After all being in jail is not an achievement to celebrate (except for politicians)!!! ;)