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Why shouldn't prisoners receive their social security?

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

David Hinman, a prisoner in Iowa, wrote today and posed this question. He is 65 and when he was in the "free-world" contributed to social security. He is not eligible for parole for a number years. This is what he writes: "Currently the government will not pay people in prison social security. I am speaking about paying social security to those who paid into the fund. Payment is based on what they paid in. Even though I am now 65 and paid into the fund, since I am in prison I am not allowed to collect unless I am released from prison. By not paying inmates the social security to which they are entitled, I believe this is in some manner, theft. My question to readers is: should prison inmates who paid into social security and reached 65 be allowed to collected social security while incarcerated or not...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 09, 2009 (boomark / email).