Ben Carson: American Federal Prisons Are Too Comfortable

Republican candidate Dr. Ben Carson recently spoke at a Young Republicans conference where his remarks rose a number of questions when he defended Donald Trump‘s dismissal of John McCain’s war heroism. Moving on, Carson talked about how he, like President Obama, has visited federal prisons, and has grips with them for being too comfortable for their inmates’ own good.

“I was flabbergasted by the accommodations — the exercise equipment, the libraries and the computers,” Carson said. He went on to say he was told that “a lot of times when it’s about time for one of the guys to be discharged, especially when its winter, they’ll do something so they can stay in there.”

Afterwards, Carson elaborated at a news event that “a lot of people that we incarcerate don’t need to be incarcerated,” but continued to insist that such comforts were non-conductive to rehabilitation.

“I think that we need to sometimes ask ourselves, ‘Are we creating an environment that is conducive to comfort where a person would want to stay, versus an environment where we maybe provide them an opportunity for rehabilitation but is not a place that they would find particularly comfortable?'”

This is not the first time Carson has spoken about prisons, having previously said that incarceration proved homosexuality as a choice because inmates would enter straight and come out gay.

[h/t Washington Post]
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