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To: cosmicforce who wrote (5631)	2/13/2001 7:50:56 PM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) of 82486

Right now we subsidize locking youthful offenders in prison. That certainly has provided us with more youthful offenders locked up in prison. We should try something different IMO. Agreed. All most people will learn in prison - at least, most 'rightfully' convicted of serious crimes - is to resent and cheat authority, and how better to subvert or avoid it... it's hardly likely to reform them. History and current reality show that. So, if they're going to be released at all, prisoners need to be supplied (indoctrinated? hmmm.) with the skills and mindset to live lawfully... which, of course, is more expensive - in the short-term, government budgetary sense - than simply locking them away for the duration and punishing them, and generally less satisfying for their victims... I don't claim to have answers here. And however civilised I claim to be, I'd like to see criminals suffer for their misdeeds (especially if I've been a victim of them). But rationally I agree that re-education has to be a better long-term solution... even if the costs fall on me rather than a future generation, and I must forgo a second-hand revenge... Interesting point, IMO :)

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