PRISON IS A PLACE OF PUNISHMENT

‘Prison was not designed as a quaint stopover, a benign banquet facility, or a Boys Town recovery home’

‘Samantha’, a PACOVILLA reader, sympathizes with California’s hunger-striking inmates. When Marshall Ragan said - “It’s not a hunger strike, it’s a state meal boycott. They all have lockers stashed full of canteen food that they gleefully scarf down on, while watching us dispose of uneaten state prepared meals.” – she said most inmates did not have the funds needed to stash any food and she criticized the callous attitude of correctional officers. Samantha said: “All they want is a fair chance out of the SHU (Secure Housing Unit) to prove that they can do well as they do not want to be in solitary . How would you like it if you were in their shoes? Think about that for a while .”

Here is Greg ‘Gadfly’ Doyle’s response:

Samantha, it is not a hotel, it is prison (a place of punishment.) Political hacks and progressives deem it “rehab for reprobates”, but the reality is it is a “warehouse for wrongdoers.” And considering how well American inmates are housed and fed, and allowed certain privileges for following rules, an organized hunger strike by inmates is unconscionable. Prison was not designed as a quaint stopover, a benign banquet facility, or a Boys Town recovery home.

You seem ignore the audacity of prisoners staging organized hunger strikes in order to further manipulate their environment. Your comments gloss over the reason those folks have been incarcerated by complaining about their canteen privileges.

Perhaps if convicted felons (i.e., adept system manipulators) pondered the joys of prison life and truly desired rehabilitation over their prison-pyramid schemes, they might not feel inclined to return to those harrowed halls as repeat offenders (as so many of them do) by their continued manipulation and victimizing others. Obeying the law keeps me out of their shoes.

Be wary of being manipulated by yet another “con job”, please.