[ansible]

> Free housing, food, health care ...

Shitty housing, unhealthy, often poorly prepared food, and frequently inadequate health care... when it isn't denied outright.

Being a prisoner in the USA, especially an elderly one, is terrible and shouldn't be joked about.

But being elderly and relying solely on Medicaid also sucks.

[hollerith]

>But being elderly and relying solely on Medicaid also sucks.

Agreed, but most US citizens who have worked at least a few years during their lives will get Medicare, too, which is significantly better.

[wisty]

Prisoners are more likely than the elderly to riot if their food is bad.

[aspenmayer]

Elderly are one of the most reliable voting blocs, whereas I’d argue most folks looking at long federal sentences are likely already convicted of at least one felony charge, thus stripping them of their rights to vote in nearly all states, at least while incarcerated.

If war is politics by other means, I suppose a prison riot is democracy by other means.