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Originally Posted by Bill O'Rights
That's where we part company...and that's cool. See...I don't see prison as rehabilitation. I see prison as just punishment for offenses commited. This, I suppose, is where the neo-con in me comes out. (shutup Ustwo) In BOR world, prison is such a miserable fucked up shithole that it is an actual deterent to crime. Consider this...the little gangbangers, up in the 'hood, consider prison time to be somewhat of a badge of honor. WTF is that? Make it so horrible that people will want to do anything they can...to stay out. Playboy? Penthouse? No. In BORland, the prisoners are going to be so exhausted from working 16 hours in the fields, growing the crops that's going to feed thier sorry asses in a few months, that porn is going to be the absolute last thing on thier minds.
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I agree whole heartedly. Chain gangs, and forced work is an excellant idea. Force those who take something away from society to give something back. Hell, if we're getting enough out of them we can even pay them a meagar wage, so that once they do serve their time, and get out, they a little something to start on.
Even if it was only a 12 hour day, 5 days a week, and we alotted a wage of say $2 an hour, (as a reward by the way, they shirk their duty, or in anyway fuck up, it disappears), provided they did enough work, I imagine we could still save our civil system money. And that would give them, over say a 5 year sentence $2500 bucks to go find an apartment, and support their own asses until they can get a job.
Maybe I'm too nice, I don't know.
On the explicit material issue... That's a really tough one, but I say they do not have a right to have a penthouse and playboys. Explicit detailed letter from hubby back home? I'll let that slide. I'm all for having reading material available, but it has to be useful reading material.