Jail as a Retirement Plan?

It is sickening. Too many prisons are nicer than they should be, that would encourage people to do that.

No luck in Italy, they do not put people in jail if they are 70 or over.

Just shows you would not be a hard issue to fix, but our leaders are to greedy. Sad to say jails are structured systems and while not ever the best living conditions but basic needs are met. Roof over your head, food so will not starve no matter how nasty. Hell even get healthcare. I know other countries cannot say that but even in the US I have heard people get locked up on purpose for a place to stay for a moment and to get a meal and are checked for health issues. It does not take a whole lot of money to make sure everyone's basic needs are being met and I can look around and see work needing to be done but no one just wants to shell out the money to pay people a living wage and fix a bunch of other problems at the same time. As far as people saving money, kind of hard for many to do even if they open some kind of retirement plan because they do not get paid a living wage so they keep having to take money out of their retirement plan. Then you look at how our society is designed to make people buy things they do not need so they can be part of mainstream society. Just leads to disaster for many for the youth, middle aged and especially our elders.

My daughter wants to live on a cruise ship when she retires (hopefully she's not serious,) but no, I sure don't want to retire to a prison!

@DeborahDiane I guess you could say I fall in the category that will have to work till I can no longer do it. It is very hard.

It is sickening that elders are regarded as disposable now on man occassions. And no how sad, I cannot imagine jail as an option. I have heard of this here even though.

I think it's unbelievable. I heard of these things from the internet. People around me will never choose that living way when they are old.

I hope their jails are nicer than ours, that sounds like a horrible retirement.

Room, board, medical care, company. I can see why many would choose that.

not all countries has a good retirement plan for their people. But is not good that senior citizen commit crime just to have stability and community.

That just shows that our prisons aren't places of punishment like they should be. If you can go to prison and live a life of ease, there's something wrong with our system. Jail should be punishment, and it should be a very uncomfortable place to be.

It's a sad state of affairs when it comes to that. I've visited several prisons and would rather not move in for any reason.

That is so sad, what about their families, don't they have family?

Ofcourse not.

Not the way I want to spend my retirement. Goes to show that the world is still a long way from taking care of our elderly.

What a strange social phenomenon ! Those senior citizens would sooner go to jail than live off retired pay.

I highly doubt that I could really retire somehow.

Surely they'd have to commit more than minor crimes in order to be in jail for any length of time? Anyway, it's a sad state of affairs.

It did cross our minds to retire to a cruise ship. Once you've been on it a while the fares reduce considerably. All your house-keeping and meals are provided; there is great entertainment and they'd probably dock in Melbourne and Dublin at least once a year so we could see our sons.

That's terribly sad. Years ago someone told me about an old fellow here in Australia. He had been in and out of jails all his life, and had nobody on the outside. So every year in the lead up to Christmas he would do some minor crime so that he could go to jail and not have to spend Christmas alone. A very sad indictment on our society.