Just because one man who was about to be executed, ordered a large meal and then ate nothing, saying he wasn't hungry, all 'last meals' have been cancelled. That fact, as a way of saving money for more important 'long term' effects did not particularly bother me. If things have to be cut, let the cuts have a longer lasting effect on the receiver. The illusion of kindness to the person you are about to murder somehow does not make my pride rise in the justice system that put Troy Davis to death in Georgia though there was no proof he was guilty and maintained his innocence until he died.
It does seem that, in the interest of humanity and kindness, when the economy was good I had no argument about all the TVs, books, and many other ways to entertain and train prisoners to e their own legal advocates was money well spent. However. after few riots in prisons where all the goodies were ruined and 'do-gooders' forced the prisons to replace everything as quickly as possible, my sympathy waned.
Everything has a context and the current economy is the context in which we are all living in at present. All budgets, everywhere, have to be carefully studied to see that requisitions fit the current priority valences.
It does seem that, in the interest of humanity and kindness, when the economy was good I had no argument about all the TVs, books, and many other ways to entertain and train prisoners to e their own legal advocates was money well spent. However. after few riots in prisons where all the goodies were ruined and 'do-gooders' forced the prisons to replace everything as quickly as possible, my sympathy waned.
Everything has a context and the current economy is the context in which we are all living in at present. All budgets, everywhere, have to be carefully studied to see that requisitions fit the current priority valences.
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