You can leave a convent. You can't leave a jail. I also don't know too many nuns getting shanked or brewing toilet-merlot in the convent. Also, most go on errands in the city without an armed guard and manacles.
Yes, you can. I did not claim you can't. But even though you can there are quite a few cases of institutionalization in convents. And the convent I visited had nuns that had not been out in society in a long time, quite possibly longer than the jail sentence mentioned.
> I also don't know too many nuns getting shanked or brewing toilet-merlot in the convent.
On the contrary, plenty of convents and abbeys engage in brewing! Trappist beer for one.
> Also, most go on errands in the city without an armed guard and manacles.
No, but back in the day they tended to be chaperoned. Nuns are a dying breed around here, the history I'm recounting is when I was 6, 46 years ago, but still if someone has made their vows and is reconciled to life as a nun I seriously wonder how effective jail would be, I'm pretty sure they would not be too impressed by it (compared to someone not used to solitude at any level).
Agreed. Trappist ale is phenomenal btw. Chimay blue is heavenly. As someone mentioned below, US jails are crowded, unsanitary, loud, and dangerous. But yea, I see the spirit of your point.
Except for the frequent use of solitary confinement. Adam Ruins Everything has a pretty shocking show on U.S. prisons. A prisoner might spend years in solitary going insane.
