Are prisons good for the environment?

[Robert Urbanek]

As prisons severely restrict the consumption of resources and fossil fuels by inmates, they would seem to be a benefit to the environment. They are the exact opposite of the car-centered suburban sprawl of single-family homes that environmentalists constantly complain about.

Incarceration provides other environmental benefits. On the outside, criminals. like most people, rely too much on plastic packaging when buying food. Prisons are more likely to buy food in non-plastic bulk containers such as sacks of rice or potatoes or very large metal cans.

More can be done, of course. We could adjust prisoners to a vegetarian or semi-vegetarian diet that would reduce pollution related to livestock. To save the planet, we need to put more people in prison, not less.

 

[Calypso Jones]

Fema Re-education camps will be more eco-friendly.

 

[EMH]

There is precisely zero evidence that co2 in any way is a cause of earth climate change.

Every time brain cells are wasted thinking about it is one more cost of algore's fraud.

 

[westwall]

As prisons severely restrict the consumption of resources and fossil fuels by inmates, they would seem to be a benefit to the environment. They are the exact opposite of the car-centered suburban sprawl of single-family homes that environmentalists constantly complain about.

Incarceration provides other environmental benefits. On the outside, criminals. like most people, rely too much on plastic packaging when buying food. Prisons are more likely to buy food in non-plastic bulk containers such as sacks of rice or potatoes or very large metal cans.

More can be done, of course. We could adjust prisoners to a vegetarian or semi-vegetarian diet that would reduce pollution related to livestock. To save the planet, we need to put more people in prison, not less.

If you are so concerned you should do the right thing.

 

[monkrules]

Yes.

Prisons help the environment by keeping the very worst kind of human excrement off our streets.