Three meals a day, a bed, showers and TV. For a lot of people here in the US, that would be better than they have on the outside. As long as you don’t bend over in the shower.
Escaped inmate returns to prison
Feng Junqiang, who escaped from prison 22 years ago, surrendered to police and returned to his cell in Liuzhou, the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, after learning that conditions in the prison had greatly improved.
Feng, who was sentenced to serve five years in prison, escaped in 1985 because he could not tolerate the hard life.
Now Feng is able to visit a supermarket, participate in recitation contests and play chess and basketball after finishing his work at the prison.
It was the first case of a prisoner willingly returning to jail in the city.
I happen to be in China right now. Manchuria, in fact. I think I can say with some certainty that I would not want to be in a chinese prison.
Nope, not my idea of a good time.
By the way, I have found my access to Dvorak Uncensored to be blocked at odd times. I am thinking it is because of too many of you foreign devil bourgeoisie capitalist swine plotting/saying/thinking bad things about the great republic of China!
#1,Ah Yea,
Maybe the interwebtubes have salt water in them.
I hope you’re enjoying your trip.
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Rehabilitation helps keep people from returning to jail. Maybe he just needs some rehabilitation.
Thanks! I appreciate it!
The food’s real good!
And you get free health care too!
Why it’s just like Cuba, complete with security forces who will shoot you if you try to leave.
(My story is set in the United States.) Reminds me of a felon who’d served his time and stayed with me for 2 months several years after his sentence ended. He’d lost his job at the barbecue restaurant and had quite the hard time finding another – it seems with the abundant supply of migrants, nobody wants to hire a convicted felon. So at the end of his stay at my house, he absconded with my wife’s engagement ring, pawned it for $100 in his own name, and committed 3 other felonies of the same magnitude during his stay at my house. I think the problem here is that there is no work for felons who’ve served their time.
See, I think this kind of ignores the reality of the situation for a lot of people. A lot of convicted felons (at least, I will say, a lot of convicted felons in Boston, which is where my legal experience lies) are really people who have been in some form of trouble with the law since they were young, for primarily economic and societal reasons. (Whether or not that’s as it should be is a different matter altogether.) What happens is that these kids accumulate a fairly long record of minor offenses such that when they commit their first (adult) offense, they’ll get a fairly large sentence. Imagine being 17 and suddenly getting 10 years – that’s your entire young adulthood gone without any ability to form true social roots. Then they’re ejected into a world which, as noted above, more or less unabashedly rejects them and the only thing they know, the only thing they’re accustomed to, is prison. It’s not that it’s a good life by any stretch of the imagination (although, it probably is better than transciency for almost everyone), it’s just that it’s all that they can do, and they know they will at least be able to survive one more day.