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Originally Posted by garinda
If prisoners wanted tobacco/phone cards/magazines/stationary etc. they'd work for them if they had too.
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And, provided that
all prisoners with reasonable behavior in lock-up can be provided with the opportunity to work, I'd agree with you. This does not seem to be the case. Based on the links I posted, jobs seem to be pretty scarce on the inside.
Also, I believe that any prisoner with reasonable behavior should be allowed to pursue further education. It's somewhat of a civilizing influence, and may help them to find employments at the end of their term. Not sure if I'd agree that all magazines should fall into the luxury category.
They've had an interesting program in one of our prisons. The prisoners work to train therapy dogs. It's considered a very high privilege among the inmates to be allowed into the program. Takes some seriously good behavior to get in and stay in, and the work is useful. As many of these inmates have real socialization issues, the work with the dogs sometimes has a therapeutic effect as well.