Author Topic: Does temp Low wage work at new prison act of mercy? (Read 1267 times)

Ursus · « **on:** August 30, 2014, 12:57:58 PM »

I've never been to a prison. I've been thinking about trying to complete the list of corporal mercy.

A helper job installing cable tv in a new prison came up. Probably a week of work, but very low pay. Would this be considered consoling the imprisioned?

OHCA · « **Reply #1 on:** August 30, 2014, 03:39:04 PM »

No--more likely to be sinful for the $#!+ they'll be captive and exposed to on cable TV, than an act of mercy. Plus you're being paid, and, I'm guessing, it's about the best work you can find for the time being. If you can find a better job, then don't be lead astray by the idea that your helping your soul any by bringing the filth of the world into a penitentiary, where (think of the root words) people should be repenting/doing penance for their transgressions.

Now if you were only enabling strictly true Catholic programming as a volunteer, then that may be different.

RomanCatholic1953 · « **Reply #2 on:** August 30, 2014, 04:43:40 PM »

The cable TV I have seen spew out pornography and other filth.
Keep the prisoners in their sins and live an unrepentant life to
its end.
Many prisons today are privately owned where the Jews and
their freemason gentile friends can make money hands over
fists. The lawyers make money, and the judges also make
money.
The prisoner is just like a live human stock dividend that pays
money through his cheap menial labor to a corrupt
judicial system. Put people in jail for a long time for small
crimes. Cause them to break the rules, and their sentences
are increased. And the money keeps flowing in.

Marlelar · « **Reply #3 on:** August 30, 2014, 07:48:40 PM »

Nothing that you get paid for would be considered an act of "mercy". An act of consoling the imprisoned would be more like visiting a prisoner who had no family, or donating good books, or at least neutral ones.

Marsha

Ursus · « **Reply #4 on:** August 30, 2014, 11:12:58 PM »

Thank you for the insight. You're correct, it's a product/service that just wastes time and encourages sin. I don't watch TV.

It was presented to me as a way to "help" them be in touch with the outside world. Funny, how you think you're helping when in reality you're enabling.

No, it's not the best work I can find, it would be humbling and outside my comfort zone as how it saw it.

Any suggestions to fill this work of mercy?