From: jc (jcpryor@nccn.net)
Date: Wed Aug 03 2005 - 06:27:44 BST
<Arlo>
>
>Bravo. Why we don't make prisoners work is a mystery to me. Well, on
>second thought, it's no mystery. The labor unions object, falsely
>believing there's only so much work to go around. If nothing else, prisons
>ought to be run like Mennonite communities to be self-sustaining, lowering
>the cost to taxpayers.
"work" need not be a matter of pure economic value either. If
somebody hurt one of my loved one, and spent the next 20 years
thinking and writing about their crime, perhaps they would come up
with some kind of intellectual insight into the sources of rage and
crime and discover mind cures that would never occur to the moral
judge or scholar.
I would still be upset over my loss, but I would feel some sense of
rightness in their effort. It would feel like true justice.
jc
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