In prison you get three square meals a day.
At home, you cook three square meals a day and try to get your kids
to eat it.

In prison you get an hour each day in the yard to exercise and
mingle.
At home you get to clean the yard up so you can mow it so your kids
can spread more toys all over it so that you can go out and clean it
again because little Jr. can't sleep without his latest lego
creation.

In prison you get to watch TV, cable even.
At home you get to listen to your children fight over the remote
control and get treated to hours and hours of mindless cartoons
thanks to cable.

In prison you can read whatever you want and attend college for free.
At home you get to read weekly readers starring Dick, Jane, and Spot
and worry about how to send Jr. to college and still be able to eat
for the next twenty years.

In prison all your medical care is free.
At home you have to pawn your mother's silver and fill out trillions
of papers for insurance and hope the doctor will see you before you
die.

In prison, if you have visitors, all you do is go to a room,
sit, talk and then say good-bye when you are ready or your time is
up. At home you get to clean for days in advance and then cook and
clean up after your guests and hope that they will one day leave.

In prison you can spend your free time writing letters or just hang
out in your own space all day.
At home you get to clean your space and everyone else's space, too,
and what the heck is free time again?

In prison you get your own personal toilet.
At home you have to physically hold the bathroom door shut in order
to keep from having someone standing over you demanding to know how
long till you're done so you can do something for them.

In prison the prison laundry takes care of all your dirty clothes.
At home you get to take care of them yourself, plus everybody
else's, and get yelled at because somebody's favorite shirt isn't
clean.

In prison they take you everywhere you need to go.
At home you take everybody else where they need to go.

In prison the guards transport all your personal effects for you and
make sure nothing is missing.
At home you have to lug around everybody else's stuff in your purse
and then wonder who went in it and took your last dollar.