[jimmydean]

Man robs bank to get medical care in jail

Because he only asked for $1, Verone was charged with larceny, not bank robbery. But he said that if his punishment isn't severe enough, he plans to tell the judge that he'll do it again. His $100,000 bond has been reduced to $2,000, but he says he doesn't plan to pay it.

In jail, Verone said he skips dinner to avoid too much contact with the other inmates. He's already seen some nurses and is scheduled to see a doctor on Friday. He said he's hoping to receive back and foot surgery, and get the protrusion on his chest treated. Then he plans to spend a few years in jail, before getting out in time to collect Social Security and move to the beach.

Verone also presented the view that if the United States had a health-care system which offered people more government support, he wouldn't have had to make the choice he did.

I know from a friends relative that in Oregon you only get 2 years if you do not have, use, or even say you have a weapon.

 

[stoney]

Heard about this yesterday. Not a bad strategy, but shows just how poor out prison/social structure is laid out. You should have less in prison, not more.

I still say we bring back chain gangs and get them out there working. God forbid a lesser criminal learns a secondary trade while in prison.

 

[Toshi]

Given that he gets free room and board, insurance premiums for a decent "plan" entirely covered, and has relatively low co-pays (low in absolute terms and decent when compared to the pittance he gets paid for working while incarcerated) he actually may have made the rational choice.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Given that he gets free room and board, insurance premiums for a decent "plan" entirely covered, and has relatively low co-pays (low in absolute terms and decent when compared to the pittance he gets paid for working while incarcerated) he actually may have made the rational choice.

This is not a new behavior. I worked one summer in the early 1960s doing fill-in tasks at a manufacturing plant (remember them?) in Hartford, CT and received instructions from people in the shipping department on how to get arrested in order to receive room and board in the event of hard times.

 

[Westy]

Same sex marriages are also accepted in prison. More free than the outside world?

 

[dante]

Heard about this yesterday. Not a bad strategy, but shows just how poor out prison/social structure is laid out. You should have less in prison, not more.

I still say we bring back chain gangs and get them out there working. God forbid a lesser criminal learns a secondary trade while in prison.

Instead of lowering the standard of living for prison inmates, how about raising the standard of living for the rest of us instead?