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What happens when the maintainer of a JS library downloaded 26m times a week goes to prison for killing someone with a motorbike? Core-js just found out (www.theregister.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Semi-unrelated, but isn't it ridiculous that they'd take away a persons ability to be productive while in prison? Give the lad a computer to work on if he wants to while in there.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago)

isn’t it ridiculous that they’d take away a persons ability to be productive while in prison?

If he's in the US, he's probably in a private prison being forced to work for free. So he's definitely being productive in the money machine.

Cynicism aside, prisons in most countries are just meant to punish (it might even be said they're a form of revenge), not rehabilitate, no matter what their propaganda tells you. There's a reason reoffending rates are so high especially in the US, because their prisons basically do nothing to prevent crimes other than instill fear of going to prison.