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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)22. Well, I know for a fact they are not serving catfood in nursing homes...
They'll keep cutting everywhere if they get their way.
Either way, the elderly in prison is just absolutely cruel and should be unthinkable to any normal person. A nursing home, retirement apartment, assisted living is always better and will always be better no matter the cuts made. You can't expect a prison guard to take the place of an aide and get the same level of care.
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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