@CP
Nope, we'll get two ex-cons with no idea how society should work, burdens on us all until they get killed themselves or die of natural causes.

You're right on that. And I think that it's damning of the prison system that that's the case. It has to be said, I think, that one of the reasons why prison doesn't work is because of the electoral popularity of the half-baked, quarter-informed hang-'em-and-flog-'em attitude to offenders.

Advancing a model for a prison system in which the central idea is that most offenders are no different from you and me save for bad luck and a catastrophic mistake or two would be electoral suicide.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 10:39, Reply)