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To: PROLIFE who wrote (17068)4/17/2000 11:25:00 PM
From: Dayuhan  Respond to of 769667
 
Are you prepared to say that you endorse a program to keep them not only alive for 40-50 years, but to keep them in internet capable computers, nice clean bunks, cable tv, more hot meals than probably half the nation, access to drugs...

I have no experience of maximum-security prisons, are they really such pleasant places? I'd be interested in hearing some descriptions from people who know something about it.

It is a tough issue, a hell of a tough issue. There are some who deserve to die, and some who don't. I'm just not sure I trust anyone - least of all the government, acting through a system which can only be fallible - to decide which are which. When it comes to allowing the state to deprive people of their most fundamental right, I would rather err on the side of conservatism.