• cocosulmov@lemmy.world
    21·
    13 hours ago

    Nice joke, but learning coding it’s not a form of punishment, for some people is actually fun and productive. Prisoners must do some work-out, not get sedentary and grow a programmers belly. Open prisons it’s really open in Finland because your ass will be popsicles in no time if you try to run, and it’s just one direction for you to run, to South East cuz the other way it’s an freezing ocean, some big mountains that will make you a miner looking for heat, so i guess, learning to mine it’s the way to go …

  • MuskyMelon@lemmy.world
    23·
    1 day ago

    You are hereby remanded to upgrade a legacy Java 1 system, written by interns, to Java 8. May God have mercy on your soul.

  • S13Ni@lemmy.studio
    5·
    1 day ago

    I hear they do micro work for mechanical turk in some Finnish prisons. It is optional, but surely won’t teach you anything at all about tech.

      • S13Ni@lemmy.studio
        5·
        1 day ago

        Well maybe, micro work is really dehumanizing and cognitively rough. I hear some US inmates do work at McDonalds and if I had to choose between that and microwork, and if time I spent working was the same with both options, I would take the fastfood job any day. At least have done that before irl so I know what to expect.

        I’m ADHD in IT job, and my mind would explode if work I did with computer was just unskilled datasorting job.

        But I do know US inmates have basically slave conditions. But I read a book about microwork and it sounds like psychological torture to me. Like what they do in Severance.

        (Work without worker is the book)

  • funkajunk@lemm.eeEnglish
    721·
    2 days ago

    God forbid we actually rehabilitate people instead of profiting off of their enslavement and not actually giving a shit if they get better or not.

    • bleistift2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      50·
      2 days ago

      Paraphrasing a Scandinavian who gave an interview I once saw in a TV documentary about the correction system in some nordic country:

      Once that perpetrator gets out of prison and rents an apartment next to you, would you rather he was subject to inhumane punishment? Or would you rather he was treated like a human being and learned how to behave in society?

      • Kitathalla@lemy.lolEnglish
        6·
        1 day ago

        Heh, the amerikkkan answer is simple: don’t let them rent next to you. They’ve accomplished it by ridiculous rent prices, charging inmates to be in jail (so they come out with debt), and shackling them to low paying jobs.

    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
      15·
      2 days ago

      There’s gotta be less cruel ways to rehabilitate people, though.

      I’m kidding. Welcome reformed convicts, to the wonderful and awful world of coding!

      • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
        16·
        2 days ago

        A lot of people’s concept of justice isn’t based on logic. Rehabilitation makes more sense logically, but retribution feels better.

      • Asafum@feddit.nl
        241·
        2 days ago

        Ahhh a fellow American I see.

        Justice is “just us” and is exclusively meant to maximize misery.

        • Jesus_666@lemmy.world
          14·
          2 days ago

          Given that prisons are an industry in the States and that inmates are one of their main sources of cheap labor, the high recidivism rate is there to maximize profits.

  • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    46·
    2 days ago

    They’re not allowed to teach Java. Otherwise they’ll be referred to the ICC for crimes against humanity.

  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
    33·
    2 days ago

    The sentence should scale with the crime. Nonviolent burglars and minor frauds could be taught Python, more serious crimes could get Go, whereas the most depraved offenders could be sentenced to C++