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To: arno who wrote (365642)	5/22/2010 9:19:54 PM
From: alanrs	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793931

"Well then...just lock the felons up 24/7/365 and allow NO other contact with other inmates." Doesn't eliminate contact with the guards. Probably some cruel and unusual punishment issues. Probably foster a fair amount of insanity. Not to mention the prison building. That would be a construction boon, although along the lines of the WPA since little of productive value would be created. Still, if we expand the slave labor aspect of prison, even the economic waste objection could be overcome. Might be able to rent some Siberian gulags that aren't being used right now. Stalin did it, why should we presume to be better than Stalin, cultural relativism being all the rage. So, some millions of people living in solitary confinement, fed by a conveyor belt system, stuffing mother boards for Intel. I know that's a direction I can get behind. Just club 'em to death get it over with. I know, OVENS. No muss, no fuss. Why didn't I think of that sooner. ARS Edit: Other things come to mind, Gypsies, galley slaves, proven technology, used equipment, along with an "astoundingly cruel" echo I vaguely remember. I'm too lazy to string them into a semi-coherent paragraph.