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Pretty sure this violates the Yelp TOS. Certain it violates good taste. Friend works as a psychiatric counselor in a max security facility for 20 years. Commutes 2 hours to and from work for safety reasons. Amazingly decent fellow. Really cares. Really tries to do the right thing. I showed him this and his reply? "Fuck those guys." From a job description: "Specific safety and security duties for wardens include appro…
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Off the top of my head I imagine that most prison administrators are political appointees and probably know far less about the actual conditions of the prison and are less removed from the day-to-day running than one might expect. They have the ability to enact top-down changes in operations, but generally have no motivation to do so. I would think feedback like this would be quite valuable to them, so they could gai…
that's quite an imagination you have.
But I'd say a good imagination is a necessary tool if one wants to understand the world. Without it, I wouldn't know where to start a search. Here I made my work available for others who might want to build on it, since I'm not all that interested in it.
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I'm pretty sure that every company with a fax machine whose number isn't private is accustomed to receiving "automated unsolicited faxes". At $work, we receive just as many (if not more) spam faxes as we do legitimate ones. People just toss 'em in the trash and don't think twice about it.
I worked for a few months in a research facility in the UK, and had a fax machine on a desk next to me. Once a day, it would turn itself on and print out an ad for a car, or insurance, or something. I was shocked to discover that spam is a thing on fax machines.
Cute, but I'd be concerned that automated unsolicited faxes are not necessarily something that people want to receive.
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that's quite an imagination you have.
Thanks. I don't particularly care about the topic, otherwise I'd go about fleshing out my musings with actual information. In this case I might use Quora to validate the basics and then spend some time on Google to answer particulars as I think about them. But I'd say a good imagination is a necessary tool if one wants to understand the world. Without it, I wouldn't know where to start a search. Here I made my work a…
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Thanks. I don't particularly care about the topic, otherwise I'd go about fleshing out my musings with actual information. In this case I might use Quora to validate the basics and then spend some time on Google to answer particulars as I think about them. But I'd say a good imagination is a necessary tool if one wants to understand the world. Without it, I wouldn't know where to start a search. Here I made my work a…
Hey, don't let your absence of caring about the topic, or lack of "actual information" stop you from sharing on HN the things you imagine based on no actual information or experience! You might not care to spend the time to learn anything about what you're talking about, but you can still spend time sharing your uninformed 'musings' on things you "aren't all that interested in" with HN! Keep on rocking!
I wonder if this use falls under those rules?
I think this is really great. How often do we as a society take the voices of prisoners seriously? It's kind of interesting to see a "view from below." Very cool work.
I think this is really great. How often do we as a society take the voices of prisoners seriously? It's kind of interesting to see a "view from below." Very cool work.
Do you expect people should like prison? Prison would not be much of a deterrent if it didn't get 1 star from just about everyone in terms of the experience. In terms of dealing with actual abuse of prisoners, the courts are a far more robust system for dealing with complaints.
The US also has a huge prison population and recidivism is high, so the brutality of the system doesn't seem to work much as a deterrent.