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Ohio Prison System Bans Java Computer Manual, But Allows Hitler’s Mein Kampf
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We do a bunch of shit in Ohio that doesn't make sense.
The medical cannabis market is regulated to sell cannabis flower by tenth ounces. If you don't know why this is weird, that's okay. If you know why that's weird, it's fuckin weird right?
That's not comparable to this example though, our prisons should be a place for growth and rehabilitation, this is just sick and twisted.
Who cares if an inmate even wants to pursue software engineering as a career? Anything that could be used, by them, to enhance their education in some way, no matter how useless it may seem, should be allowed.
Damn jails are capturing groups of people and forcing them into vicious cycles of recidivism.
I'd argue that it makes plenty of sense when you see it through the lens of terrible people profiting from human misery wanting to hold onto those profits: letting prisoners learn useful skills leads to lower recidivism which means fewer dollars going to the prison industry in the future. Meanwhile more racist books in the library means less hassle to prison guards when the prisoners turn on each other, boosting gangs that alighn on racial lines, instead of pushing back on the assholes actually making their lives worse.
Well, yeah, to a psychopath it makes "sense" but I suppose that's the point haha