Prison in Kumamoto starts sheltering quake evacuees

Imagine losing your house or livelihood, then ending up sleeping in prison. I feel bad for these folks.

This is disgusting. Japan has learned nothing from the disaster in Fukushima.

Send these people to HOUSES in other parts of Japan!!

Dan : They could send them to the dreadful corrugated temporary homes no longer used by the lucky Tohoku refugees who now have a home. Cold in winter, leaky, ridden with inspects and hot in summer. These people want to stay together as communities so if prison is that only option, they will take it. They probably will not commit suicide or resort to alcohol so much either.

Send these people to HOUSES in other parts of Japan!!

They don't want to go to other parts of Japan.

The prison might actually be the strongest building in the area.

one reason not to own any property in japan.... rent!

Disgusting ! Why is not the govt prepared, after 3/11, with evacuation plan for people (those who have no place anymore) in the surrounding region temporary while SDF are making the basic repair to roads so food and water can be transported again ? Why no extraordinary plan for extraordinary situation like doing requisition of all hotels available around 200 km radius to provide decent night sleep to the homeless is not ordered ? On a govt can do that ! What I am seeing here... is the total failure of a govt to respond to a disaster and a govt that learnt nothing from 3/11.

Again, who wants to go 200 km from home to stay in a hotel? With the roads gone and bridges down, who can travel 200km with any kind of frequency? I have friends in Kyushu, and even less than an hours' drive away, people can't get to each other. The hotels in the Kumamoto/Miyazaki area also have no water and food.

You won't get people away from their homes, that's human nature.

Prison in Kumamoto starts sheltering quake evacuees

As long as the government doesn't forget they are supposed to be temporary "inmates".

That's the kind of things you CAN do when your prison system isn't overcrowded. Good stuff, better stay close to home than be sent far away.

1) don't mix the inmates and the evacuees lest there be lookalikes that are forcibly switched or incompetent guards who can't tell the difference. 2) don't drop the soap.

the prisons in Japan are clean and well maintained.

Heiddy, how do you know???