NEWS: Cruel and Unusual?

CULTURE: Cruel and Unusual?

Imagine you're a criminal. You've been caught, prosecuted, convicted and imprisoned. You might be prepared for all of that; "If you can do the time don't do the crime." But now, while you're in chokey, you're going to have to buy your own coffee.

Sniffer dogs are being trained to find, and rip to shreds, anyone smuggling coffee into a prison.

It's going to jeopardize public safety to have hundreds of thousands of inmates quitting coffee cold-turkey, innit?

how much coffee will fit into a balloon?

I'm not going to Michigan for the next month. Man, the criminals there are gonna be PISSY.

Honestly though, $250,000 a year really isn't that much. I'd say that they should institute a program to occupy the prisoners' time in the meantime, but it's really not enough to do anything significant at all. I know, people seem to be against extra activities for prisoners, but I always figure that if idle hands are the devil's workshop, then we really ought to keep people in prison as busy as possible.

Coffee for the good life.

Great, now we will have pay for their liver transplants

Coffee is like tobacco or grass:......if you got it great, if not: no big deal.

[Edited on Feb 18, 2005 5:05AM]

depends...ground or whole bean?

They're crims. I for one don't give a rat's arse.

While we are at it, can we take away the cable TV too? It is frigg'n prison after all. My tax dollars should go to fixing the crap roads in Michigan not, passifiing a bunch of fiending baddies.

wrong.wrong.WRONG.

more than 250,000$ a year could be saved by not feeding the cops doughnuts!

What?

who are you? Gallagher? Terrible joke...

we coddle our prisoners too much.
im all for this.
they should take away some other things too.

Like butt sex and blow jobs.

Yes, but the cops were not convicted of any crimes (hopefully) like these convicts were. Any way we can make prisons less hospitable and more cost effective should help out the law abiding and cause criminals to think twice before committing serious crimes.

Where are you getting your "99%" figure from?

Ah what a bunch of assholes. Yes I'm talking to anyone who is like fuckem they are criminals. Some people are innocent in there. I'm people on these boards commit crimes everyday and don't get caught. what if you did? Could you do two years? Two years inside?

Fuckem they aren't like me.

oh shit I sound like that asstulip bikksu.

I'm just trying to say, having known convicts, I regret to inform you they are people too. and sometimes people do hard time for bullshit. and gasp sometimes people are treated differntly due to skin color. but for the record, fuck a damn peadophile

that is all.

shit, i can't even afford coffee and they were getting it for free?!

and in response to theseeman:

whether some one is "doing time for bullshit" or for murder, drugs, money laundering, etc. doesn't mean a damn thing. you don't get thrown into prison for following the law. those that are possibly innocent are the exception not the rule. a crime is a crime and the criminal should be punished. granted some laws are really shitty, hopefully a majority of them are for the greater good.

one last thing, i've also known ex-cons. as a matter of fact half my family are ex-cons and i'll tell you what, they deserved what they got.

I suspect that most cops feed themselves.

Why are we even giving these convicts water? FUCK THAT! That water costs money! It's not like these convicts are human or anything...

I'm sick of seeing my tax money go toward things like common decency for warehoused inmates, it should be getting stolen by politicians or used to fund bombs to kill more brown people.

Treating people like livestock and stripping them of any possible creature comfort is the only way to properly rehabilitate these people animals back into society.

Arpaio for President!