Prisoners Given “Hotel-Style” Surveys

Excerpt: “…a night in the cells is now followed by a ‘customer satisfaction’ survey, with those detained in custody asked to rate the ‘services’ on offer behind bars.”

Prisoners are given a forty-one-question survey asking about their stay at the prison. What is going on?

What do these people expect to get out of this survey? “Oh, I loved it. As soon as my sentence is up, I’m committing more crimes just to come back! It’s like a Holiday Inn Express!”

The article reads that, “One guard groused, ‘They are starting to treat the emergency cell buzzer like a room service hotline … We are getting asked all sorts — to get them celebrity magazines, to put air con on, to bring them a salad.’”

These prison are trying to earn a rating similar to “5 stars,” and the prisoners know it. These criminals are blackmailing the guards into serving their every command. Prisons weren’t invented to put criminals in a life of luxury. I don’t understand why prisons need a good rating by the prisoners. As long as none of them get killed or abused by the guards, it’s all good. If they wanted a good, whole life, they should have made better schoices in the first place. Prison is a terrible place, which is a good example of why not to commit crimes (I’d way rather live nowhere than a God-awful prison!).

(Via Asylum)