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Japanese retirees are committing crimes in purpose to get sent to prison so that they can retire for free. Japanese prisons are apparently safer, cleaner and provide substantial quality care for inmates, including comfortable living quarters, food, recreation, healthcare and so on. All paid by the government.
Japan’s Prisons Are Turning Into Nursing Homes - Bloomberg
Japan's Elderly Are Committing Crimes As a Way to 'Break Into Prison' - Fortune
Starving pensioners in Japan responsible for shoplifting crime-wave / Boing Boing
What a way to beat the system. It is a common perspective that most retirees in developed nations don't have enough savings or a stable fixed income over the retirement age to support themselves. Any thoughts?
The reason for this choice is that life in Japan is simply unaffordable for retirees, says Hansen. According to Custom Products’ report, the state pension is 780,000 yen ($6,885) per year, but the cost of living is actually about 1,003,000 yen per year ($8,854), making it nearly impossible to get by on the pension alone.
“Some prisons have become like nursing homes,” said Ryotaro Sugi, who was given the honorary title of special corrections officer by the Justice Ministry in 2008 to advocate for prisoners’ welfare after visiting jails over almost five decades. “Many need assistance for walking, bathing and eating. Some groan at night from pain, throw their excrement or wander inside cells because they’re suffering dementia.”Criminal offenses by those age 60 and over have quadrupled to 46,243 cases over the two decades that ended in 2014, according to Japan’s Ministry of Justice.
Japan's crisis is badly exacerbated by runaway xenophobia, which makes immigration reform a no-go area. Without a cohort of young workers from elsewhere in the region, there are just not enough people paying into the system to support the aged. This problem is in turn magnified by the need of young, productive workers to divert themselves from waged work to look after their elderly parents, which has the double effect of reducing their ability to support children (who will provide the labor to support their pensions) and reducing the present-day tax-base, increasing the pressure on yet more elderly people and thus more young workers.
Japan’s Prisons Are Turning Into Nursing Homes - Bloomberg
Japan's Elderly Are Committing Crimes As a Way to 'Break Into Prison' - Fortune
Starving pensioners in Japan responsible for shoplifting crime-wave / Boing Boing
What a way to beat the system. It is a common perspective that most retirees in developed nations don't have enough savings or a stable fixed income over the retirement age to support themselves. Any thoughts?