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It's really hard for an audience on HN to truly appreciate the situations incarcerated people find themselves in. I think it's fine to "teach prisoners coding" as along as the people involved are aware that to even get to that point, how much BASIC education has to be re-done or done for the first time. Moreover, things like resumes, job hunting, and relating to people in a work environment is something that these fo…
It's hard to improve the situation without people screaming about how you're CODDLING MURDERERS ! Especially when it involves spending taxpayer money, even if it saves enormous sums in the long run due to reduced recidivism. Many voters are unhappy with anything less than recreating Dante's Inferno, so it is politically risky to implement these reforms that have been so successful in other countries.
Who? Twitter idiots?
If you're going to take the weakest of strawman arguments for the opposing side, you're not going to get very far in your thinking.
There are plenty of ideas that aren't politically risky that don't get implemented, that would positively affect criminals and non-criminals alike - what's your explanation of such phenomena?
Blaming voters for the deeds of politicians has got to be one of the weakest strawmans I've heard in a while. It is the job of the politicians, domain experts and the media to present viable options for the populace to choose from. If the option chosen is shit, it isn't the person working 9-5 and raising a family that was asked to choose who is at fault, I hope that much is obvious.