Internet for prisoners

It really depends on the crime the prisoner is in for. If someone gets busted for soft drugs, or something of that ilk, I don't think computer privledges are too bad of a thing. For one, it would probably keep the inmates under control if you had that to hold above their heads.

If we're talking about serial murderers and rapists, though, I don't really think they should be given internet time.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

People forget that not everyone in prison is some fucking hardened criminal. These people are human.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

If people here are going to argue the fact that this is a senseless waste of taxpayer money, I have a whole other argument about who this country sends to jail. Just remember, the US has the highest inmate-to-population ratio in the entire world. Over half of those people are in there for non-violent crimes.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Sixty billion bucks a year is spent on prisons in the US.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

It goes up every year, thanks to a rising population and inflation. With the internet it would undoubtably be more, but at $60 billion already it's not going to make too much of a difference.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Selective privledges and use of the internet as a reward for good behavior could both be implemented, though.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Gechmir

Time in prison is meant to be long and dull. It is in theory supposed to feel ridiculously long and cause folks who get out to not wanna come back.

This obviously doesn't work.

Originally Posted by Wiki

A survey showed that among the nearly 300,000 prisoners released, 67.5% were rearrested within 3 years, and 51.8% were back in prison.

Anyway, again, I'm not talking about giving the prisoners in some Supermax facility these privledges. Non-violent offenders aren't inhuman scum. They deserve something. Being locked away for such extended periods of time is punishment enough.

FELIPE NO

Edit: Nevermind. I'd rather not.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Originally Posted by splur

The minute you commit a crime, you lose all rights. And when prisoners demand cable, internet, etc, I find it a bit wrong and that society shouldn't give into what they want. They're in jail for a reason. The only access to a computer they should have is for educational purposes connected only to the jail library and nothing else.

I know the term crime is subject though and that it's hard to say who really is a threat to society and shouldn't recieve any rights. But once you allow some prisoners to use the internet, you'll have to allow the others.

No, you won't.

Jam it back in, in the dark.