Wednesday, December 26, 2018
Is it worth the (slight) excitement?
"Both" "sides" are making noise about the alleged prison reform act passed and signed this week.
Bishops like it, which makes me instantly suspicious. I had enough of forcible priest-type activities when I was in prison, and vowed never to look back. Aside from those basic vocational activities, modern priests and bishops work for Soros to obliterate civilization.
So let's check the actual text.
Most of the provisions are prima facie trivial and meaningless. Improvements in documentation, minor changes in good-time which probably won't affect any real inmates, free Tampax for female prisoners.
The only part that LOOKS like it COULD be meaningful is titled Expanding inmate employment through Federal prison industries. As I never tire of tiresomely repeating,
USEFUL WORK is the only rehabilitation.
Learning the intrinsic pleasure of COMPLETING A PHYSICAL TASK with a VISIBLE RESULT AT THE END OF EACH DAY.
Well, does this bill do anything toward the ONLY meaningful goal?
Here's exactly what it does:
(a) In general.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, Federal Prison Industries may sell products to— (1) public entities for use in penal or correctional institutions; (2) public entities for use in disaster relief or emergency response; (3) the government of the District of Columbia; and (4) any organization described in section 501(c)(3), (c)(4), or (d) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 that is exempt from taxation under section 501(a) of such Code.That's it. That's all. Nothing about training, nothing about the actual work methods. In short, the products of prison industries shall not be real and useful products. Prisoners will not get the experience of making things and selling them at a profit to real customers who enjoy using the products. So the whole pile of shit is absolutely pointless.
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