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by DarthMader 3546 days ago
The goal of our penitentiaries isn't rehabilitation or to prepare inmates for a life outside of jail
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And more to the point, taxpayers don't want their money to go towards enriching the lives of inmates, only their punishment.

"Why am I paying to have rapists, killers and thieves jerk around on the internet all day," they'll say, while voting out the party responsible and voting in the party promising to take the computers away and make the inmates break rocks in the sun until they drop.