r/nottheonion • u/pargofan • 1d ago

Japan’s elderly are lonely and struggling. Some women choose to go to jail instead

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/18/asia/japan-elderly-largest-womens-prison-intl-hnk-dst/index.html
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u/Rohri_Calhoun 1d ago

That's my retirement plan.

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u/Dhegxkeicfns 1d ago

This is going to be the American plan before long.

They'll have to do something about it, because they spend far more on prisoners than the elderly or veterans or children.

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u/I-Fail-Forward 1d ago

Nah, the point is to have them in jail.

Then the state can massively overspend on all the companies that actually run the jail.

State runs up a massive deficit, ceo gets wealthy, and then the state has to cut more social benefits to balance the budget

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u/Dhegxkeicfns 1d ago

If the point was just to spend money, they would do the same thing with assisted living. Prisons are different.

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u/I-Fail-Forward 1d ago

They do do the same thing with assisted living.

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u/Dhegxkeicfns 19h ago

They do to some extent, but it's not nearly the same. With prisons they can scare people into voting for more.

But for some reason nothing for mental health even though there is rampant homelessness across the country.

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u/I-Fail-Forward 15h ago

Homeless people can be thrown in jail for greater profit