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Originally Posted by willravel
A healthy, well adjusted person emerges from the doctor's office, and then goes to prison a bit with a full understanding of what he or she did.
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What?
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Originally Posted by willravel
Prisons are intended to be places of rehabilitation; a big time out. The idea was to punish and isolate to allow for self reflection.
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I disagree with that.
Prison
may serve as rehabilitation, in
some cases. But, I think that the primary purpose of prison is to remove a dangerous person from the street. If you want to call it a warehouse, then that's fine, I guess. I don't really care much about that.
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Originally Posted by ShaniFaye
It offends me every day there is a person still breathing that was in our family that murdered someone sitting around getting 3 meals a day, not having to do a damn thing but sit on his ass all day
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OK...what if prison work farms were reinstated, and said murderer had to bust his ass, to earn his keep, for the rest of his life?