[SAD] Texas prisons deny dentures to inmates with no teeth, claim chewing 'isn't a medical necessity'
wnct.com/news/national/texas-prisons-deny-den...Posted Oct 5, 2018, 3:45 PM UTC
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If I lived in America I don't think I would follow through with my age old plan of going to prison if I become homeless.
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With you on that one.
Edit: wouldn't want to go to prison either way, i'd rather try to get back on my feet, but i'd probably rather be dead than go to an american prison.
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It's incredibly difficult to get back on your feet like you say. In a worst case scenario with no place to go, I'd sooner steal a large amount of money and plead guilty.
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I bet it is, i was just trying to say, i'd rather try getting back up than waste other peoples money on housing me in prison.
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My point was that with no address you can't get a job, and without a job you can't get money, and without money you can't get an address. I'm sure you know this but I see very very little chance of making your way back to normality.
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I think that's the point. The idea is to make prison so shit that you'll do everything possible to avoid going there. It's not rehabilitation, it's a punishment.
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I know I know but prison is pretty sweet here compared to starving on a wet pavement
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I already have a low bar for Texas so this doesn't surprise me in the least.
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Texas is a shithole state
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Isn't it important to continue to chew so you don't lose bone in your jaws?
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I'm sorry Triarag, but I'll have to remove your submission from r/ShitAmericansSay because one or more rule was broken.
The content you submitted doesn't quite qualify as "funny".
Thank you for your effort and your service! O7
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Why is this less funny than the million boring posts of people saying the US should take over the world or its important to have guns? This sub is going to shit lately.
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Srsly American prisons are fucking gulags
The better ones are. There are ones (and used to be even more) that make gulags go "wow dude, chill the fuck down".
Guantanamo Bay comes to mind. Not in the US, but run by them, so it counts.
Historically, there was also Alcatraz, but that's a museum now.
Like, if this was news coming from a "bad country" the headlines wouldn't hesitate to call them something like that.
I believe the scientific term is a shithole.
( insert something about USSR here )