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[–] MelonYellow@lemmy.ca 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You gotta feel like such an asshole for confiscating that

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 13 points 5 days ago

The surf and turf after getting stoned likely takes the edge off the guilt.

[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

I'll be real: if our goal is to make prison a place of rehabilitation, I don't see why we would restrict access to meal prep stuff. Cooking is obviously good for inmates.

And while we're at it, marijuana and tobacco should be available too, without having to pay exorbitant commissary fees.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 16 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Prison is not designed to be a place for rehabilitation. Prison is designed as:

  • A profit center
  • A method for people who want to exert control over the populace to do that

It is, as you said, actively hostile to the goal of rehabilitation. Some of that is deliberate, because recidivism is further profit for the people involved in the system, and some is just how it happens.

The system also happens to occasionally fulfill a useful goal of keeping violent or dangerous people off the streets, but almost every single other thing that it does is harmful.

if our goal

Sooooo, about that...

[–] theangriestbird@beehaw.org 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

that's some Avon Barksdale lvl shit

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I’m just recently started watching the wire and 100%

[–] theangriestbird@beehaw.org 2 points 5 days ago

haha i'm in s03 of my first ever watch. this headline felt like the show jumped out into RL

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 7 points 5 days ago

Sounds like a better holiday meal than I'll be having!

[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 days ago

Is that brown stuff meant to be weed?!

It looks like rolling baccy