I am truly curious though, and my questions come as a result of a recent piece I heard on the radio. This is in no way meant to be disparaging.
For the long term prisoners, past a point, how compassionate is the release? Truly.
I'll use the example of a 75 year old man who has been in cpsince his 20's. At this point, it is very clear that any recidivism is probably approaching the probability of zero. But, the person that is shoved on the streets would seem to me (an outsider) to have nothing beyond the freedom it self going for them. Without contributing to social security, that man has no form of income besides the state. Medicare/Medicaid is a crap shoot for senior citizens to my mind (I worked in nursing homes for a long time), and the way that population is treated is often quite poor,
Does there come a point for a prisoner when the life inside is actually preferred to the unknown outside (and again, this is true curiosity, I do. It mind being educated)
I correspond with a man on these blogs who murdered a friend in cold blood, chopped him to pieces and desecrated the corpse. He's in his 40's now, and thinks he deserves a chance out side the walls. I disagree, as prison is literally all he has known.
OK.......I'll bite. I'm not the obese DOC employee that hates cons.....bit of "pot, kettle, black." there isn't it!
I'm not Mr. Paul Henderson Director of Security that you had so much evidence against that he would end up in C2 beside you, to be ridiculed by your fellow cons and you would have been elevated to immortality. Shame.
I am not some poor sub contracted, disabled counsellor that was your most recent fixation.
Hi Robert, well written. In reaction, I do not know much about Machiavelli, but it sounds he might have written "1984" (doublespeak). Then Foucault, unfortunately, isn't alive anymore, the book you quote is from 1975, also he died young. This is the beginning on him on wikipedia:
Michel Foucault (French: [miʃɛl fuko]; born Paul-Michel Foucault, 15 October 1926 – 25 June 1984) was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, social theorist, philologist and literary critic. His theories addressed the relationship between power and knowledge, and how they are used as a form of social control through societal institutions. Though often cited as a post-structuralist and postmodernist, Foucault rejected these labels, preferring to present his thought as a critical history of modernity. His thought has been highly influential both for academic and for activist groups, such as within post-anarchism. Have a good day and keep on writing Robert! Julia
& PS no comments from the peanut gallery. U don't know the facts of the case ergo you're in no position to judge.... Shoot even JUDGES are in no position to judge...
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I am truly curious though, and my questions come as a result of a recent piece I heard on the radio. This is in no way meant to be disparaging.
For the long term prisoners, past a point, how compassionate is the release? Truly.
I'll use the example of a 75 year old man who has been in cpsince his 20's. At this point, it is very clear that any recidivism is probably approaching the probability of zero. But, the person that is shoved on the streets would seem to me (an outsider) to have nothing beyond the freedom it self going for them. Without contributing to social security, that man has no form of income besides the state. Medicare/Medicaid is a crap shoot for senior citizens to my mind (I worked in nursing homes for a long time), and the way that population is treated is often quite poor,
Does there come a point for a prisoner when the life inside is actually preferred to the unknown outside (and again, this is true curiosity, I do. It mind being educated)
I correspond with a man on these blogs who murdered a friend in cold blood, chopped him to pieces and desecrated the corpse. He's in his 40's now, and thinks he deserves a chance out side the walls. I disagree, as prison is literally all he has known.
Am I in the wrong here?
I'm not Mr. Paul Henderson Director of Security that you had so much evidence against that he would end up in C2 beside you, to be ridiculed by your fellow cons and you would have been elevated to immortality. Shame.
I am not some poor sub contracted, disabled counsellor that was your most recent fixation.
So who am I now?
Paul
well written. In reaction, I do not know much about Machiavelli, but it sounds he might have written "1984" (doublespeak).
Then Foucault, unfortunately, isn't alive anymore, the book you quote is from 1975, also he died young. This is the beginning on him on wikipedia:
Michel Foucault (French: [miʃɛl fuko]; born Paul-Michel Foucault, 15 October 1926 – 25 June 1984) was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, social theorist, philologist and literary critic. His theories addressed the relationship between power and knowledge, and how they are used as a form of social control through societal institutions. Though often cited as a post-structuralist and postmodernist, Foucault rejected these labels, preferring to present his thought as a critical history of modernity. His thought has been highly influential both for academic and for activist groups, such as within post-anarchism.
Have a good day and keep on writing Robert! Julia