JasenComstock

January 27, 2012

"So let’s have a jail retirement age. Everyone out the door at 65. Goodbye and good luck. Health care costs are highest in the final years of life; there’s no reason for these men to spend those in a cell, in a government jail. For Republicans: this plan will save lots of taxpayer money. For people who are not cold-hearted bastards: this is the right thing to do. A couple of decades in jail is punishment enough. These people’s criminal careers are over. There is nothing to be gained by forcing more and more people to die of old age in prison."

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Let’s Let All the Old People Out of Jail

I finished the Gopnik New Yorker story [which I URGE you to read] about our prisons on my way in this morning and can’t stop thinking about how wrong we have it in this country.

(via peterwknox)

how would this save money? we let them out of jail right when they get on medicare?

Old people should be killed and eaten if they are in jail. Skin them and use their pelts for the homeless.

(via peterwknox)

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