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In the discussion thread: If you are elderly and poor, prison is better than a retirement home [View all]

Response to angstlessk (Reply #3)

Fri May 25, 2012, 07:06 PM

cynatnite (27,377 posts)

7. It is hogwash because you can get health care in a nursing home or retirement home...

This article is pure bullshit. They are talking out of their ass.

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49 replies	Author	Time	Post
If you are elderly and poor, prison is better than a retirement home [View all]	angstlessk	May 2012	OP
This is probably the biggest pile of hogwash I've ever read on DU...	cynatnite	May 2012	#1
Hogwash would be more accurate to describe the way our society treats the elderly.	DontTreadOnMe	May 2012	#2
The article is implying that prison is better than a retirement home...	cynatnite	May 2012	#6
UM, if you are infirm, you will be in the infirmary.	WingDinger	May 2012	#16
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
Well, I know for a fact they are not serving catfood in nursing homes...	cynatnite	May 2012	#22
My sister is in a nursing home on Medicaid. The OP does make a good point.	Honeycombe8	May 2012	#35
So, do you think she'd be better off housed with criminals?	cynatnite	May 2012	#39
It's hard for many of us to shake they feeling we sentenced loved ones to prison-like conditions	Generic Other	May 2012	#41
I do, too. n/t	cynatnite	May 2012	#45
There was no choice. I work and am gone all day....	Honeycombe8	May 2012	#49
One. She would share with ONE criminal. Currently, she shares with THREE mentally ill people.	Honeycombe8	May 2012	#48
Not hogwash if you actually rob a bank to get healthcare	angstlessk	May 2012	#3
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
Federal prisons cannot provide the same level of care than a nursing home...	cynatnite	May 2012	#18
People in Federal Prison come up for parole.	Downwinder	May 2012	#36
The elderly do not deserve to spend the final years of their lives in a prison. n/t	cynatnite	May 2012	#40
oh nonsense. First of all the number of seniors robbing banks	cali	May 2012	#37
You seem to think EVERY OLD PERSON can enter a well run nursing home...	angstlessk	May 2012	#24
It is not acceptable and should never be acceptable...	cynatnite	May 2012	#28
I've been considering this lately.	Voice for Peace	May 2012	#4
I saw another one a week or so ago.....	Uben	May 2012	#5
That's because those places have nursing staff and other medical care workers...	cynatnite	May 2012	#8
Did you glue your hand to your face? I do believe it is cheaper than	angstlessk	May 2012	#10
Assisted living still requires health care workers...nurses...	cynatnite	May 2012	#14
Heck Motel 6 is even cheaper with the same amenities!...	angstlessk	May 2012	#9
Yep, they'll have free cable, but no nurse to dispense meds for them...	cynatnite	May 2012	#11
Nursing homes are not there to care for the elderly..they are there for profit	angstlessk	May 2012	#13
Motel 6 is cheaper for a reason...	cynatnite	May 2012	#15
I understand that the Motel 6 argument is bogus...but the prison debate	angstlessk	May 2012	#21
Prison will never be viable for an elderly person...	cynatnite	May 2012	#25
If the elderly are committing crimes to go to Federal prisons...they speak louder	angstlessk	May 2012	#27
Wow! There must be a surge of old people robbing banks?	cynatnite	May 2012	#30
This is drivel from people who believe prison is like a night in a motel	rustydog	May 2012	#17
If the alternative is to die of a disease that can be treated	angstlessk	May 2012	#23
It's not living...	cynatnite	May 2012	#26
So your advise would be they should commit suicide..since their choice is NOT	angstlessk	May 2012	#29
Are you completely bent?	cynatnite	May 2012	#31
Screw you too...folks ARE COMMITTING CRIMES TO GO TO PRISON for health care	angstlessk	May 2012	#34
You are advocating it without evidence...	cynatnite	May 2012	#38
From my own experience	vankuria	May 2012	#32
My mother recently spent two weeks in a nursing facility	aint_no_life_nowhere	May 2012	#33
I'm 100% with you on that one	Generic Other	May 2012	#42
My hope is for some one to break into my little house in the woods,	LiberalArkie	May 2012	#43
Finally somebody mentions the smell!	LeftyMom	May 2012	#46
I kept my mother at home for 5 years before she died	lunatica	May 2012	#47
I have been around nursing homes for many years now	Broderick	May 2012	#44

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