[chadAnon69]

hopefully the prison reform bill helps

Although an interesting though I've had is that in the future people might get sent to jail on purpose for a non-violent offense because they'll essentially educate you while providing free room and board. There was a 60 minutes episode on an inmate who essentially was able to educate himself enough about the law to help appeal other convicts sentences and he became a lawyer when he got out.

I know if I was homeless I would consider it

[harlanji]

I joke about this. 3 years ago I was giving conference talks, now I am seemingly chronically unemployed and homeless in Silicon Valley, working odd jobs (eg. Christmas tree lot, trench digging). Jail sounds nice.

[elcomet]

That's why free education is important. It's crazy that people would go to prison on purpose to get it.