[Emperor Palpatine]

Prisoners deserve nothing.

No jobs, books, TV, sports, no visitors but their lawyers, No nothing.

Bread and water and that’s it.

This is a travesty.

[bigheadfred]

The travesty is sitting in the White Hut.

Yes. Let’s stop businesses from doing what they can to survive. Let’s make sure more fail.

And let’s increase the amount of cheap chinese crap we buy.

I’m sure lots of businesses would love to hire expensive union labor instead of hiring criminals.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Send all serious criminals to work farms in Alaska where they can grow and raise their own food, supplemented by wild game shot by tourist hunters who pay for the privilege. Hard work will reduce one’s sentence, laziness or trouble-making will lengthen it. Escapees will have nowhere to go and the problem of surviving. IIRC, the Federal government owns almost all the land in Alaska and can charge “rent” to the various states for taking on one of their prisoners. Might be a good job for a private firm.

[elkfersupper]

This is a travesty.

Yes, it is. We have more people in the criminal justice system than any other "civilized" nation on the planet and they still can't buy cigarettes or booze with the pittance they get paid for what union thugs outside the system would be paid $40 / hour and be free to wander around and spend their money however they choose.