# Genocide?? Solution to over crowding in Prison

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genocide-solution-to-over-crowding-in-prison/222577>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 4, 2004, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genocide-solution-to-over-crowding-in-prison/222577 "2004-01-04T03:24:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genocide-solution-to-over-crowding-in-prison/222577/21 "2004-01-07T22:34:18Z")

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> \*Originally posted by gluteus maximus \*  
> \*\*Considering the demographics of American prisons, ‘genocide’ is exactly what JoeBitt the concerned high school teacher is talking about. \*\*

That’s kind of what I was thinking he meant, too. That kind of thing definitely shapes how you look at a new Doper…

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**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genocide-solution-to-over-crowding-in-prison/222577/22 "2004-01-08T08:33:07Z")

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Well, if we’d be willing to go as far as genocide, simple _brainwashing_ might be a viable option, too.

The prisoners might be able to rejoin society then…or at least, used as docile zombie slaves.

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**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genocide-solution-to-over-crowding-in-prison/222577/23 "2004-01-08T21:11:16Z")

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> \*Originally posted by JoeBitt \*  
> **There are some prisoners who have it easier in prison rather than on the streets. Prisoners have some privileges being in prison: cable TV, three meals a day, a bed to sleep on, a toilet, clothing on their backs, etc. Grant it, its not luxury in prison but it is better than worrying about your life on the streets.**

I don’t think you have a clue what life in prison is really like.

Neither did I, once upon a time. Then I signed up for a program where I actually got to go inside a maximum security prison (not supermax), meet inmates, and find out what the experience really was. It’s messed up, definitely. And it’s about as far from “luxury” as it’s possible to imagine without having a crocodile chomping on your barbed-wire underpants.

Get some actual experience based on reality, not from watching “Oz,” and then we’ll talk.

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