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Gaawa_chan posted...

I don't have a problem with this. The restriction of their freedoms is their sentence, not the conditions of the place where they have been restricted to. It's not like living in an absolute shithole magically makes you a better person.

Pretty much. Prison as a punishment is a fundamental failure of an ideology that achieves nothing except momentary catharsis for the general public and to line the pockets of a few executives. It doesn't do a particularly good job as a deterrent, it does very little to prevent re-offending, and in many cases it actively pushes minor criminals toward worse crimes than they otherwise would have ever committed.

If nothing else, all of the "this is like being in prison!" histrionics (many of which came from the same sort of people that insist that prison cells should be miserable) in response to the Covid lockdowns show that most people understand that being unable to leave is itself a punishment. And that wasn't even actually being unable to leave, it was just not being able to go wherever they wanted but still having full access to anything they'd normally have done at home that didn't involve physically bringing another person there, which is substantially better than even the nicest prisons.

Zareth posted...

That's better accommodations then a lot of American apartments to be honest

Which is more of an indictment of the housing situation than anything to do with prisons.