re: #180 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Well, I didn’t say it wasn’t used for punishment. It is—as I pointed out.

As a victim, I wouldn’t have given a flying fuck if my rapists had spent the rest of their lives in solitary.

After all, I’ve had to spend a lot of my own life in solitude. But I also enjoy my own company. People who can’t live with themselves usually don’t.

All prisons are not alike. Depending on where they are, how they are run, some prisoners have TV, they have books, access to legal research, job training, education, mental health therapy—many, many opportunities to better themselves, and sometimes, it’s far easier for them to get than on the outside. Prisoners have been known to get college degrees, even master’s, something a lot of us don’t have the opportunity for out here in the real world. Any prisoner who doesn’t take advantage of those opportunities that are offered to them are working against their own selves.