Fried dough, pig fat, molasses, and grease. What the hell? Would it have been to expensive for the state to have provided grits, oatmeal, bread, and beans for them to eat? Would have been a hell of a lot better! Hell, even if you ate all they gave you, you were still being starved half to death!
shareYou're absolutely right - prisoners deserve steak dinners, air conditioned rooms with king sized beds, color TV with cable, and internet. I suppose you wouln't mind your taxes going up - where do you think states get there money? You liberals are so backward thinking to the point of insanity. I say let them eat slop - maybe they'll think twice about committing crimes. Prison should be a place nobody wants to go. You idiots think they should live like retirees in a luxury hotel with free room and board.
shareUm, air conditioning, color TV's, and of course, internet, didn't exist in the 1920's when this was set! Not even TV itself! And nobody had air conditioning in their homes until the 1950's. I live in Alaska and few people have air conditioning in their homes today. Anyway, I'm just saying if the food was stepped up a notch and maybe work hours for 10-11 hours instead of 15, it would have been more reasonable. Beans, corn mush, and grits is not exactly pricy and would have been adequate to sustain them.
Cool Hand Luke is a good example of how it should be!
Let them eat slop; does that mean they need to die in prison of malnutrition and overwork? Prison is supposed to build character and rehabilitate, not destroy them!
Or perhaps do what they do in Malaysia and Singapore and just whip their asses with a pole 10-20 times and a small prison sentence with it.
Why does everyone become so obsessed with friggin' cable tv & air conditioning when talking about prison? Who DOESN'T have cable or air conditioning in this day & age? I'd gladly trade both to avoid prison rape! Prisons are not dungeons & many prisoners are actually innocent. Something to think about if you're ever a victim of mistaken identity. I'm just sayin...
shareI don't have air conditioning in my home and it's a 2100 square foot home in the suburbs worth over $330K. But it's also just outside of Anchorage, Alaska. Weather up here in the summer is maybe in the high 70's at the most for several days a year, but unlike last summer when there were continuous 75-85 degree temperatures for weeks on end, we were dying, considering the homes here are built to retain heat.
We don't have cable TV, either. Netflix and Amazon takes care of that.
But yes, they went WAY overboard in this. People's thinking, particularly authority figures, was rather skewed, close-minded, and backward. If you were in the wrong place, with the wrong person, and at the wrong time, you were screwed!
I live in inland southern California. If we had 75-85 degree temperatures for weeks on end, we wouldn't even know it was summer, and nobody would need air conditioning. I spent a year near Anchorage one July, working outdoors, and it was sweater weather.
shareRe: The food eatenStupid post. The other poster was not suggesting luxury; s/he was suggesting a basic but decent diet. It's one thing to inflict punishment and a deterrent; it's another to be less human than the criminals.
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by guy_in_west_houston » Thu Feb 21 2013 10:46:20
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You're absolutely right - prisoners deserve steak dinners, air conditioned rooms with king sized beds, color TV with cable, and internet. I suppose you wouln't mind your taxes going up - where do you think states get there money? You liberals are so backward thinking to the point of insanity. I say let them eat slop - maybe they'll think twice about committing crimes. Prison should be a place nobody wants to go. You idiots think they should live like retirees in a luxury hotel with free room and board.
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The powers that be in the Georgia prison system back then were illiterate, inbred crackers that were not about rehabilitation or instilling character in the men, but treating them worse than animals and destroying every fiber of their being. Most people that had sentences more than a year or two died in the prison
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