I’ll admit, I can’t afford an apartment as nice as these prison rooms look and that kind of sucks, but we could definitely stand to move in the direction of how Norway handles incarceration considering the overcrowded, privately owned rape dens that we have (that are often occupied by non violent offenders). For a country that consistently ranks higher in standard of living, and jails a smaller percentage of its population, it’s not really surprising that their prisoners have it so well. I’d say Norway is doing a better job abiding by the 8th amendment than we are.
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With no assistance to keep the eyes moist, let them burst.
how bout we just take the criminal on his bluff and watch him starve to death.
Just give him a PS3 with PS2 classics installed with the same games he had before. He won’t mind
Well most crime in America is rooted in the disparity in wealth/ poverty, with a sprinkling of racism. The reason why the prison system works so well there is due to the very low crime rate overall, due to Norway being a Socialist nation, where every denizen is entitled to the same social privileges- most notably an access to free education and healthcare.
While I do believe that prison should be about rehabilitation than punishment, the societal structure of America doesn’t cater to such a grand reformation. The privatized prison industrial complex is more concerned with profit and politicians care about looking tough on crime.
El Salvador knows how to run prisons:
get him a ps2 with CFJ ONLY
wow cruel alert!
ugh, the prison system was created with the intention to rehabilitate, and those that pushed it here, pushed it for that.
We aren’t doing that. Maybe dialing back and reading that shit won’t make the prison sysem a steaming pile of shit whose only function is to make $$$ and career criminals.
give him a ps3 and misinterpret all his requests for games by giving him crappy ones
I hadn’t even considered that option. I like it!
I am going to go to Norway and just start robbing banks and shit so I can live in a nice Apartment for free.
Give him a PS3 and a copy of Lair in his solitary confinement…within minutes he’ll be begging for a Game Gear.
Moving to Norway. If that’s how the criminals live, I can only imagine how the citizens are doing. :tup: Probably rock a three-story with a landing pad in the back for parties.
-Starhammer-
Just to be silly, I’m going to look at this strictly from a gaming historian approach. He needs a PS3? Screw that. Purely on a ‘gaming as hobby’ level without getting into who should or shouldn’t have this or that in prison, I’m willing to believe that maybe he needs more than Rayman. I’ll play along with that premise.
However, I am nowhere near ready to accept that he needs a PS3 in order to have a good time. If his PS2 is still working and he absolutely has to have better entertainment on it, then there is no shortage whatsoever of good games on that system. Atlus’ catalog alone could keep him busy for a good while, with stuff like Steambot Chronicles, Samurai Western, various Shin Megami Tensei games, and so on. Hell, go beyond Atlus. Let’s look at Capcom and toss in Okami too. And the system’s backward compatible so load him up on some PS1-era RPGs while you’re at it.
Seriously. $75 in a PS1/PS2 used games bin could keep him entertained just fine with plenty of great single-player games. Even if you rule out all the multiplayer-focused titles and anything rated M, this still leaves an amazing back catalog to work with. Toss him some of those. If he really thinks he needs a PS3 to have fun, he’s full of it. The PS2 (esp. if you combine the PS1 library with it, and you probably should) was one of the best possible choices for solo gaming with no online play, easily ranking up there with the Super Nintendo for this purpose.
Overcrowded due to mismanagement. Two nearby prisons to me in Illinois closed recently.
Want to prevent overcrowding? Stop shutting down prisons, problem solved.
And the fuck out of here with the Eighth Amendment, want to see real cruel and unusual punishment? Read “Escape From Camp 14” by Shin Dong-hyuk. Nothing that America has, save for possibly Guantanamo, comes even remotely close to cruel and unusual punishment. No, not even, “Don’t drop the soap.”
That prison in Norway is not punishment, it’s rewarding prisoners for breaking the law. Would you punish your son for beating up his sister by taking him out for ice cream? Is he going to learn anything from that?
They could just smash up a PS3 and feed it to him bit by bit. Two birds.
Give him this game and only this game. The mere existence of this game in his “cell” will drive him into insanity.
His perspective of his room will go from a homely place to some Silent Hill shit with Owls and Christopher Robin’s head popping out of walls and twitching the fuck out.
At week 1, he’ll be talking to an imaginary friend named Chris.
Week 2, he’ll be telling the guard how Chris doesn’t like how he doesn’t play with him anymore
No one lives past week 2
Yo, we get fucking video games in prison now? After killing 77 people?
What reason does anyone have to even obey the law anymore…
prison just doesn’t make sense. At some point in the future people just need to realise there isn’t enough room or resources to take care of people at the tax payer’s expense. What is anyone hoping to achieve by putting Breivik in prison? Is he supposed to do a 180 and regret what he did? rhetorical question.