Re: Prison would be a LOT more effective if....
 

Lady Sidhe has been pushing this idea for years, but I don't think it's practical because you have no way to measure or control the quality of the research subject. You can't control their drug intake or have any idea of their medical history.

Yeah, but who needs a medical history to find out if, say, the eyeliner irritates their eyes or the perfume makes them break out in hives?

That'd be DAMN funny, inmates forced to walk around wearing experimental-formula makeup.

Re: Prison would be a LOT more effective if....
 

Actually, my father used to be part of a company that did just that. They tested the effectiveness of over the counter drugs past their expiration dates at prisons and colleges.

It consisted of subjects being paid to take aspirin, anti-histamine, etc and allow blood samples to be taken.

I think it works well as a deterrant. If it wasn't for prison I wouldn't put half as much effort into covering my traces.

Re: Prison would be a LOT more effective if....
 

FINALLY! Someone who agrees with what I've been saying for years!

I also think that prisons should be self-sufficient, like Hunt Correctional Center here in Louisiana. Why should we have to pay for these people? I'm all for the Gov. in Arizona who put the inmates in tents in the desert.


Hunt is also a "deadline" facility, in that there are no fences. There are field workers and armed guards on horseback, and if anyone tries to make a run for it, they shoot them. Hunt, however, isn't a "prison." It's more of a "boot camp." You have to be a trustee to go into the Impact Program, and every two days there takes a day off your sentence. They get up at the ass-crack of dawn, do PT, run a few miles (or if they piss off their guard, they duckwalk for a few miles--got that straight from the mouth of a duck who spent over a year there. They grow beans, so that's what the inmates get to eat. He swears he'll never touch beans again.), then they go to work doing whatever it is they're told to do. Not a whole lot of tolerance for bullshit at Hunt.

And hell, inmates get free schooling anyway--I think that a useful degree should be a requirement for parole/release. That way they have something they can use to support themselves when they get out.

And last, but not least: put executions on pay-per-view and donate the money to the prisons. Then the anti-death-penalty whiners won't be able to say that it costs more to execute someone than keep them alive.....

Well, that's all from me tonight...I've been up since 6am, and it's midnight. I have to get up in six hours.

Night, all...



Sidhe

confirms my feelings about work...a prizon full of deadlines.....

Once upon a time, they did do medical experiments on prisoners.

There is a book about the studies done at Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia.

And, if needed, prisoners would be able to get an organ transplant sooner than *I* would! :mad: