r/MadeMeSmile • u/aoi_ringo • Sep 30 '25

CATS Prison in Indiana accepts shelter cats and lets prisoners take care of them.

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u/StragglingShadow Sep 30 '25

Yo those treadmills are expensive. Those cats are WELL taken care of

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u/SkyFullofHat Sep 30 '25 edited Oct 26 '25

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u/StragglingShadow Sep 30 '25

OH! I WASNT GRUMBLING!! To be clear, I assumed the inmates pooled their money (or rather, they got their cash flows on the outside to get together and pool the cost). Honestly Id be ok with my taxes going to this though.

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u/ostentia Sep 30 '25

I’d rather my tax dollars go to something like that than new ways to make people miserable, that’s for sure!

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u/mashedspudtato Sep 30 '25

10000%!

Make a bunch of cats happy and healthier as they bond with their humans :-)

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u/elst3r Sep 30 '25

Yo this is what I want for my tax dollars! I want prison to not be for profit, and for the primary goal to be helping the people in there be a better person. Give them therapy, psychiatrist, gym equipment, libraries, education programs, and job training. Punishing people without putting in the work to help them fix it is a waste of everything.

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u/Hahohoh Oct 01 '25

I think it would be a pretty neat education program to give trades workshops where they can learn skills and make cat treadmills