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To: haqihana who wrote (148152)	11/21/2005 3:40:06 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793745

Last night they had a woman on Fox promoting the sale of a childish painting of Christ done by some convict. She thought is was OK for convicts to receive pay for such things because it might rehabilitate them. I think convicts should get three squares a day, a flat bunk, a toilet and wash basin, and an hour in the yard every day. No TV, no weight room, no law library, no perks that the average citizen does not get and aside from the listed items no perks that the average citizen DOES get. NOTHING that they do in prison should enrich them. They are there for punishment, not rehabilitation, in my view. My brother-in-law considered, trained for, and qualified for a guard job in a county jail. He said the inmates are universally losers, bent on spitting, taunting, infecting people Hepatitis, and various and sundry misbehaviors. He turned the job offer down because he said he was not allowed to handle them with true authority but had to be completely professional, which meant he had to basically treat them with kid gloves.

To: haqihana who wrote (148152)	11/21/2005 4:26:56 PM
From: rich evans	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793745

I support the present system generally. If we are dealing with a rapid mad dog, excute him. For some others, life without parole and we bear the cost. For some crimes of passion, or whatever like my friend who killed his girlfriend in college for some crazy reason, he serve time-18 years , and was able to return to society. These are all hard calls. But no argument other then revenge supports the death penalty conclusively. The rest of the proposals- cost, protection of society, rehabilitation, are all debatable. Pure "pay back" is why we do it for the most aggregious murders. Europe no longer follows this , even England. Rich