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All Games Banned From MO Prisons
A while back we mentioned that Missouri pulled violent games from prisons on the basis that hardened criminals shouldn't be practicing their sharpshooting technique. Now, the new governor has removed all video games from the MO prison system. From the AP story: "Blunt, a Republican who took office two weeks ago, called video games 'a luxury that inmates should not be allowed to enjoy.'"
They presumably did something quite naughty, so they're now being punished. When I was little, my mom would take away my Atari 2600 if I was bad. What do you want to bet that some of these people didn't even -have- video games until they got to prison?
Bleh.
Yes, because pushing a button on a gamepad trains you to handle a real gun more effectively, right? Especially since games offer such realistic bullet physics, right?
I don't see this as bad at all. They're in prison for a reason. Why should the tax payers be footing the bill for this?
It's commonplace for AP articles to distinguish political affiliation for anyone in elected office when referring to him or her.
/. summary is a valid concern though.
The exceptions usually being President and VP.
So, no, there's no backhanded motivation in including this in the AP article. Whether or not it should be including the
Dude, I know it's ultra-cynical, but Machiavellianism tells me a government should not be educating people who will most likely be inclined to criticize and even try to overthrow it.
The American revolution happened only because educated and highly eloquent people wrote and spoke openly against the British Crown, seeking at first only redress of grievances, not seeking independence until it was painfully obvious that the British monarchy wanted to retain complete power.
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Have you looked at textbooks recently? They're stuffed with photos licensed from third parties. And with every copy of the book sold goes a royalty to the owner of the photo.
My Political Science 110 textbook costs more than $90, and it's got more page surface covered with photos than with text.
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The only problem I have with that is that the book sale method would not allow standardized curricula. It's possible that locally printed digital textbooks could be used to save money and get fairly up to date and standardized material.
Overall I think you are dead on. Learning is expensive for reasons that don't need to apply to a prison school.
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As an add-on:
"Justice" has always been about punishment; be it either retributive (you hurt me, so I hurt you back) or preventative (if I hurt you, you might not hurt me any more.)
Punishments were generally of the easy-to-administer type; floggings, public shaming, banishment, confiscation of property, or execution.
One day, England decides to ship the buggers off to Austrailia and the like. Needed somewhere to hold them while the boats were in transit, so they built jails. Then some clever bugger thinks 'why not just leave them in jail?' And the penal system was born.
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True, but not easy to get into.
In my area to counteract the stigmatism of being for stupid people the tech schools started activly looking for better students and became more selective.
The very students that should be encouraged or even forced to go to these schools could not go if they wanted to. What we really need is tech schools to be the default for high school in this country and strait high schools to be only for academic life bound. The tech schools here have about the same college rate as the general high schools.
Even though people will not nessiserily be able to get jobs in the area they studied at tech school a work focused education would lead to a better understanding of what was expected of people when they worked. Of course better adherance to existing school policy would probably take care of that too. 40 absences a school year is bullshit.
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If we're going to kill people for sex crimes, we need to make sure that there are no more sex 'crimes' where everyone involved except the law is happy with the results. I am not talking about statutory rape here, though for cases where the age difference is 3 years that should not be a legal issue either.
I'm talking about stuff like it still being against the law in some states to use or possess sex toys.
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I agree with your comment completely, but it is rather odd that you would suggest that violent people have no place in the military...after all, violence is what they do.
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