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I do believe that prisoners deserve basic human rights. What I wonder is how do we define those rights? Is it truly a basic right to have cable tv in your rooms (true in a prison in Oregon.)? Is it basic rights to be allowed conjugal visits, when possibly the reason you are in prison is for killing the spouse of another person?
Basic rights, to me, are food, water, and shelter. The rest is icing on the cake.
That said, I'd love to see rehabilitation work; but where things currently stand, it doesn't -- at least not for the major crimes. I don't know how to change that reality, just think it would be nice. Maybe tecoyah is correct and we need two types of prisons.
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