{"id":10542,"date":"2016-08-27T14:58:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T06:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/?p=10542"},"modified":"2016-08-27T14:58:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T06:58:51","slug":"institutionalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2016\/08\/27\/institutionalized\/","title":{"rendered":"Institutionalized"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry likes RES-keyNav-activeElement\">\n<blockquote class=\"reddit-card\" ><p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/singapore\/comments\/4zmncg\/local_man_gets_released_from_prison_quickly\/?ref_source=embed&amp;ref=share\">Local man gets released from prison, quickly proceeds to attempt to throw himself into path of bus to extort money from driver, eventually gets sent back<\/a> from      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/singapore\/\">singapore<\/a>    <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.redditmedia.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"tagline\"><a class=\"expand\">[\u2013]<\/a><a class=\"author may-blank id-t2_dnqfi userTagged\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/NO_LAH_WHERE_GOT\">NO_LAH_WHERE_GOT<\/a> <span class=\"flair flair-green\" title=\"@visakanv\">@visakanv<\/span> <span class=\"score likes\">55 points<\/span> <time class=\"\" title=\"Fri Aug 26 05:53:33 2016 UTC\" datetime=\"2016-08-26T05:53:33+00:00\">1 day ago<\/time><time class=\"edited-timestamp\" title=\"last edited just now\" datetime=\"2016-08-27T06:56:51+00:00\">*<\/time><\/p>\n<form id=\"form-t1_d6x6hbu7pq\" class=\"usertext warn-on-unload\" action=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/singapore\/comments\/4zmncg\/local_man_gets_released_from_prison_quickly\/#\">\n<div class=\"usertext-body may-blank-within md-container \">\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>I used to volunteer at Prisons. Some of these older guys\u2013 they&#8217;ve been there for decades. Their family members are either dead or estranged. They don&#8217;t really know what a computer or the Internet is, and will have a terrible time finding any sort of job. Their siblings etc might not care about them, or actively hate them. The only people they know on the outside might be their drug kakis, or gang kakis, and even those are usually gone. Some of them openly say, when I get out I&#8217;m just going to do drugs again and come back here where my friends are.<\/p>\n<p>EDIT: Noticed a few well-intentioned comments saying things like &#8220;free food, free housing&#8221; \u2013 TECHNICALLY true but doesn&#8217;t capture the whole picture. It&#8217;s not that they learn to love the prison environment, it&#8217;s that the environment outside of it is especially harsh to them in ways we can&#8217;t even begin to imagine. We all have things we take for granted that help us survive\u2013 jobs, family, friends, savings, etc. These guys \u2013 and I&#8217;m guessing this is definitely the case for the 60yo dude in the article\u2013 have none of that.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"child\">\n<div id=\"siteTable_t1_d6x6hbu\" class=\"sitetable listing\">\n<div id=\"thing_t1_d6xaej5\" class=\"thing id-t1_d6xaej5 noncollapsed comment\" data-fullname=\"t1_d6xaej5\" data-type=\"comment\" data-subreddit=\"singapore\" data-subreddit-fullname=\"t5_2qh8c\" data-author=\"NoFollyoftheBeast\" data-author-fullname=\"t2_xc61v\">\n<div class=\"entry unvoted\">\n<p class=\"tagline\"><a class=\"expand\">[\u2013]<\/a><a class=\"author may-blank id-t2_xc61v userTagged\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/NoFollyoftheBeast\">NoFollyoftheBeast<\/a> <a class=\"voteWeight\" title=\"your votes for nofollyofthebeast: +2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/singapore\/comments\/4zmncg\/local_man_gets_released_from_prison_quickly\/#\">[+2]<\/a> <span class=\"score unvoted\">17 points<\/span> <time class=\"live-timestamp\" title=\"Fri Aug 26 09:13:54 2016 UTC\" datetime=\"2016-08-26T09:13:54+00:00\">21 hours ago<\/time><\/p>\n<form id=\"form-t1_d6xaej53jl\" class=\"usertext warn-on-unload\" action=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/singapore\/comments\/4zmncg\/local_man_gets_released_from_prison_quickly\/#\">\n<div class=\"usertext-body may-blank-within md-container \">\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>Wow. That&#8217;s&#8230; depressing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard of halfway-houses for ex-convicts, and establishments that provide employment to them. Are these helpful?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/form>\n<ul class=\"flat-list buttons\">\n<li class=\"first\"><a class=\"expand\">[\u2013]<\/a><a class=\"author may-blank id-t2_dnqfi userTagged\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/NO_LAH_WHERE_GOT\">NO_LAH_WHERE_GOT<\/a> <span class=\"flair flair-green\" title=\"@visakanv\">@visakanv<\/span> <span class=\"score likes\">21 points<\/span> <time class=\"live-timestamp\" title=\"Fri Aug 26 09:49:56 2016 UTC\" datetime=\"2016-08-26T09:49:56+00:00\">21 hours ago<\/time><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"child\">\n<div id=\"siteTable_t1_d6xaej5\" class=\"sitetable listing\">\n<div id=\"thing_t1_d6xb0oz\" class=\" thing id-t1_d6xb0oz noncollapsed   comment \" data-fullname=\"t1_d6xb0oz\" data-type=\"comment\" data-subreddit=\"singapore\" data-subreddit-fullname=\"t5_2qh8c\" data-author=\"NO_LAH_WHERE_GOT\" data-author-fullname=\"t2_dnqfi\">\n<div class=\"entry likes\">\n<form id=\"form-t1_d6xb0ozf01\" class=\"usertext warn-on-unload\" action=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/singapore\/comments\/4zmncg\/local_man_gets_released_from_prison_quickly\/#\">\n<div class=\"usertext-body may-blank-within md-container \">\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>I think they try their best, and it does well for some of the younger guys\u2013 but for the really old guys in their 60s etc, there&#8217;s really not much you can do for them also. Become toilet cleaner? Work McDonalds? (And even then idk, with jail history etc&#8230; might not be able to get). Pick up cardboard? Then go live with strangers you don&#8217;t know? Or alone in some desolate rental flat? And commute in a strange world where people are on their phones all the time? Might as well go back to jail where your friends are. At least that&#8217;s how a couple of them put it to me.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local man gets released from prison, quickly proceeds to attempt to throw himself into path of bus to extort money from driver, eventually gets sent back from singapore [\u2013]NO_LAH_WHERE_GOT @visakanv 55 points 1 day ago* I used to volunteer at Prisons. Some of these older guys\u2013 they&#8217;ve been there for&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[828],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5gxNz-2K2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}