Woman robbed bank to return to prison

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" A woman who was recently released from prison in Oregon robbed a bank in Wyoming only to throw the cash up in the air outside the building and sit down to wait for police…Investigators say 59-year-old Linda Patricia Thompson told them she wanted to go back to prison.
Thompson said she had suffered facial fractures after strangers beat her at a Cheyenne park last weekend.
She said she couldn’t get a room at a homeless shelter and decided to rob the bank Wednesday because she could no longer stay on the streets…"
yahoo.com/news/fbi-woman-robbed-wyoming-bank-return-prison-224157972.html

Life is very difficult for many people living in the USA.
 
Remember the story of the guy who found out he had cancer and decided to rob a bank so he could get free healthcare in prison?

Weird times.
 
Not so weird.

The American frontier is gone, but as long as we maintain the frontiersman attitude of “dying on your own two feet,” there will be some who unable to do so, will turn to the system the only way they know how.

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Geist said:
IMO simply cheaper, more humane, and efficient to roll back zoning laws and just give the chronically homeless a “tiny house”.

(thetinylife.com/what-is-the-tiny-house-movement/)

(and I’m as right-wing as they come)
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Municipalities generally hate the new tiny house trend because they want to levy big taxes on big houses. Whatever is humane never enters into their thoughts because the same people pass laws outlawing feeding the homeless. Greed, and lack of mercy abounds.
 
saellis said:
Municipalities generally hate the new tiny house trend because they want to levy big taxes on big houses. Whatever is humane never enters into their thoughts because the same people pass laws outlawing feeding the homeless. Greed, and lack of mercy abounds.
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Government is the problem 99% of the time. 🤷
 
She is what’s known as “institutionalized”. In prison they get so used to not having to do hardly anything to care for themselves that they begin to take comfort in it. Out in the world they then find normal aspects of life to be too “difficult”.
 
That’s a sad story, but it’s a fact that prison gives people companionship, warm shelter and regular meals, three things which many can’t get on the streets.

We are doing something wrong, that’s for sure. It’s a problem in every city in the world.
 
Isca said:
That’s a sad story, but it’s a fact that prison gives people companionship, warm shelter and regular meals, three things which many can’t get on the streets.
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Yes, that may well be a factor. But I wonder if her age was a contributing factor. At 59 years, she doesn’t have the physical vitality and the sense of open horizons that someone of 29 might have. The world may have seemed closed to her, and requiring an effort she was no longer capable of.
 
Ojo_Feliz said:
Yes, that may well be a factor. But I wonder if her age was a contributing factor. At 59 years, she doesn’t have the physical vitality and the sense of open horizons that someone of 29 might have. The world may have seemed closed to her, and requiring an effort she was no longer capable of.
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Just like Brooks in Shawshank Redemption. His character spent so much time in prison, he could not function out in the real world.
 
I am sorry for such loneliness having nowhere to go,outside prison,and it has to be terrible to have the face fractures by beating.
The sight of the trees… and the flowers…
I remember letting persons know about simply that…and they would ask,and I would just tell them about bluebonnets or the seasonal…simple little things one may not even notice.
Prayers for her …
 
Deus_tecum said:
She is what’s known as “institutionalized”. In prison they get so used to not having to do hardly anything to care for themselves that they begin to take comfort in it. Out in the world they then find normal aspects of life to be too “difficult”.
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And they find it too difficult out in the real world often because the world makes it difficult for them to adapt. It is hard to afford decent housing, get a good job, etc. when you have a record and a stigma as an ex-convict and you do not have the necessary skills for living and a support network.
 
meltzerboy said:
And they find it too difficult out in the real world often because the world makes it difficult for them to adapt. It is hard to afford decent housing, get a good job, etc. when you have a record and a stigma as an ex-convict and you do not have the necessary skills for living and a support network.
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Yes… Some people are very kind though and help out by means of jobs or connecting them to other persons outside their group who can help.
Also,some extended family members are very kind to receive them and help persons changing their environment and place where they lived and providing new oppprtunities.
It has got to be a very hard struggle,very hard for any persón of good will who wishes to start anew.
 
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