Comment on It's never been about helping people
Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
If a person has a criminal conviction for homelessness, how likely they are to pass the background check with that conviction?
It feels like poor->homeless->convict->unemployable->indentured servant is the expected career transition.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
It’s been known for 50+ years that incarcerating a person is the most criminogenic you could do to them. It increases crime. It solves none of the problems it uses to nominally justify its existence
LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 days ago
Can I have some sources? I believe what you just said but the studies might actually say something slightly different.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
Source is a college course from 20 years ago 😭 so I don’t recall specifics, but the idea is that prisons don’t so much as reduce crime as contain it, or shift it around.
Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
What I wonder about is how long would it take the modern right wingers to embrace mass forced labor for people in distress?
deaconblackhorse@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Yea in this case it would only make things bad. But maybe murderers and rapists deserve to be locked away.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
Some people need to be kept away from others for their safety yeah, but a high security medical facility is a better place for them.