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In the wealthiest country on Earth.
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Kinda sounds like a win-win for her when you think about it. The state isn't gonna stick her in high security prison, more like minimum security, so it's basically just a retirement home but this time she doesn't have to pay rent, and under the 8th amendment, prisons in the US are required to provide medical care to inmates (it's not always the best care, but they do get it), which isn't actually the case with poorly funded or greedy retirement homes.
There comes a point when you're old enough that going to prison is actually a better alternative to retirement homes, because a retirement home will actually take your assets so you have no wealth to pass down to your kids, but a prison doesn't do that. if you go into prison as an elderly person, your house is still yours, your bank accounts are still yours, you just can't access them while you're in prison.
if prisons weren't so inhumane and degrading
Imagine a country where going to jail is a good thing
Norway?
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Minimum/Open prisons probably aren't so bad, or at least are about the same as retirement homes. Abusive prison guards hitting you? You get that from 'care' workers every day anyway, except this time you don't have to pay for it.