Prison Workers Should Have to Live Like Inmates For a Short Time
Removing programs and recreation time would probably stop.
When Demeter was researching another article, she ended up down a rabbit hole of other news stories, which happens quite often. One of them talked about rising healthcare costs in our state prisons. However, it wasn’t the costs so much as a comment made by a fiscal analyst presenting the statistics to an appropriations committee that stopped Demeter in her tracks.
He also blamed the incarcerated themselves, theorizing that perhaps some people are just looking for an excuse to inject some variety into the doldrums of prison life. “They’re bored,” Hamel said. “Offenders want a different setting. They want to talk and interact with other people other than those around them. And they do this by going and seeing the doctor.” — Sean Hamel source
When she read the direct quote to me I was just as annoyed by it as she was. I won’t lie and say there aren’t inmates who misuse the medical system. There are definitely some here at the camp where I’m housed who put in sick calls for numerous reasons who shouldn’t. Do some of them do it because they’re bored? Possibly. Do some do it because they want a different setting? It’s highly likely.
