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In reply to the discussion: If you are elderly and poor, prison is better than a retirement home [View all]cynatnite
(31,011 posts)6. The article is implying that prison is better than a retirement home...
That is hogwash.
You generally do not need food stamps when you live in a nursing home or retirement home.
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If you are elderly and poor, prison is better than a retirement home [View all]
angstlessk
May 2012
OP
Hogwash would be more accurate to describe the way our society treats the elderly.
DontTreadOnMe
May 2012
#2
They cannot keep an elderly person for the long term in the infirmary...not even a young prisoner...
cynatnite
May 2012
#19
That still leaves the choice, prison food, or catfood. I would prefer prison food.
WingDinger
May 2012
#20
It's hard for many of us to shake they feeling we sentenced loved ones to prison-like conditions
Generic Other
May 2012
#41
One. She would share with ONE criminal. Currently, she shares with THREE mentally ill people.
Honeycombe8
May 2012
#48
It is hogwash because you can get health care in a nursing home or retirement home...
cynatnite
May 2012
#7
Bullshit on you...Federal prisons...which is why old folks are robbing banks and not 7-11's
angstlessk
May 2012
#12
The elderly do not deserve to spend the final years of their lives in a prison. n/t
cynatnite
May 2012
#40
That's because those places have nursing staff and other medical care workers...
cynatnite
May 2012
#8
Nursing homes are not there to care for the elderly..they are there for profit
angstlessk
May 2012
#13
If the elderly are committing crimes to go to Federal prisons...they speak louder
angstlessk
May 2012
#27
So your advise would be they should commit suicide..since their choice is NOT
angstlessk
May 2012
#29