I drive on I-5 in California, and the exit signs posts if there is a jail, state mental hospital, prison, detention center at that particular off ramp. Is there a policy where this is required? Why are incarceration centers posted on freeway exits?

edit: Can you please cite a policy that requires these detention centers to be posted? Is it a federal policy or a California State policy?

    • robocall@lemmy.worldOP
      9·
      21 hours ago

      I’ve seen some prisons with warnings that say “don’t pick up hitchhikers; may be prisoners” but not at most of the places with the freeway sign. Also they note detention centers. I think there must be some policy that mandates the sign.

      • DomeGuy@lemmy.world
        21·
        10 hours ago

        The typically white-on-green signs shown near US interstate exits are navigational aids, not public safety messages.

        If the local prison is on the exit, it’s just the single most notable landmark.

        • IronBird@lemmy.world
          2·
          10 hours ago

          yup, lot of these prisons are placed in the middle of fucking nowhere as a form of economic kickback essentially.

          local economy is non-existent so throw down a prison and bam, you got a bunch of cheap stupid employees and free slave labor for the local barons that run the county.

          • DomeGuy@lemmy.world
            31·
            10 hours ago

            Not a bot, just a guy whose been on the internet for years. Which means that, yes, I presume some people are ignorant of facts. (And that others are fucking stupid.)

            @OP posted about “exit signs”, which is not what your sign shows. Which is why I described the ones I did.

            Why did you assume that the black-on-white public safety signs like what you posted were what they meant by “exit sign”?