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Federal judge orders Texas to air condition all prisons by the end of 2029

120 points · 202 comments · bonefishgrill

  1. boredatoms · · focus · HN ↗
    The US needs to get over this whole ‘punishment’ view of prison. It either a social-safety quarantine, or a rehabilitation
    1. mrits · · focus · HN ↗

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      1. Glemmlko · · focus · HN ↗
        No it shouldn't.

        It should be the understanding of a society that no human being is just 'bad'. A human being became 'bad' by a definiton of a society due to circumstances like upbringing, environment etc. and a society which failed you.

        Prison is the removal of you from society due to impatibility of current values and should help you become 'better'.

        Be happy that you had good/avg parents, the mental strength to help yourself, money, luck, body strength, whatever it was which allowed you to comment on HN instead of being in a prison.

        1. nitwit005 · · focus · HN ↗
          If all it took to ensure a good outcome was to create good circumstances, we'd have fixed society in the prehistoic era. People would have figured it out and asked the good parents to raise all the kids one generation, and problem solved.

          Instead what you see is parents with five successful kids, and one that keeps ending up in prison, and no one can really explain how it went wrong.

          1. Glemmlko · · focus · HN ↗
            And you mean that?

            We have indigeous people and historic effidence, that kids with mental health issues were kept hidden from the rest of a village, sometimes in cages and on chains.

            We know very well that the education system around the planet cateres to the masses not to the ones with disabilityes, ADHD etc.

            Human beings are complex, any education system is not and its not reflecting the diversity of humans.

            In japan for example, kids have to cleanup there own class rooms, wonderful concept, any other real country which adopted that?

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