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Sir Taliesin · 12-03-2003, 10:39 PM

You also get piss poor work, because they aren't going to give a crap about how they do things. It would be like a draftee army trying to do the job of professional army. Professional is always better.

There is also that little thing called Public safety. Would you feel comfortable in letting Crips, Bloods, Vice Lords, Mexican Mafia, Neo-Nazi riff-raff out working on the street in front of your home? Most people are probably going to be a little leery of that. Most states have work details. I was in Stony Fork, Tennessee three weeks ago and saw a prison crew digging a grave. There were 7 or 8 prisoners and one guard armed with a pistol. Now these guys aren't rapists and murderers, which is what we are talking about, but probably theives, forgers or drug dealers. They don't allow the Death Row guys or the lifers out to do that kind of work, but that's what you are advocating.

If you want to reform prisons and make them institutes for rehabilitation, then in my opinion, you have educate the convicts. If they don't have a high school diploma, then they should be required to get their GED and then either take college course work or some sort of trade school, before they are allowed out on the street. At the sametime they should also take socialation courses, anger management courses and/or drug rehabilitation ( if they need it). Then they should be required to find a job and pay the Government for their education... like a student loan. They could remain on probation until their "loan" is paid off.

But that still doesn't take care of the death row inmates or the lifers. IMO, if they are sentenced to life in prison or death, then that's where they stay. They have been judged a menace to society and they should remain behind prison walls till they are dead one way or the other.

Which brings me to another point, Isn't a life sentence the same as death? Either way you ain't going to get out of prison alive. One is more cruel than the other. Care to take a guess which it the worst sentence? Some of you here say a Death Sentence is just a form of revenge, but isn't locking some one up in a 6'x9' cell for the rest of that their natural life and never letting them out revenge also?

12-03-2003, 10:39 PM	#56
Sir Taliesin Silver Dragon Join Date: March 4, 2001 Location: Knoxville, TN USA Age: 62 Posts: 1,641	You also get piss poor work, because they aren't going to give a crap about how they do things. It would be like a draftee army trying to do the job of professional army. Professional is always better. There is also that little thing called Public safety. Would you feel comfortable in letting Crips, Bloods, Vice Lords, Mexican Mafia, Neo-Nazi riff-raff out working on the street in front of your home? Most people are probably going to be a little leery of that. Most states have work details. I was in Stony Fork, Tennessee three weeks ago and saw a prison crew digging a grave. There were 7 or 8 prisoners and one guard armed with a pistol. Now these guys aren't rapists and murderers, which is what we are talking about, but probably theives, forgers or drug dealers. They don't allow the Death Row guys or the lifers out to do that kind of work, but that's what you are advocating. If you want to reform prisons and make them institutes for rehabilitation, then in my opinion, you have educate the convicts. If they don't have a high school diploma, then they should be required to get their GED and then either take college course work or some sort of trade school, before they are allowed out on the street. At the sametime they should also take socialation courses, anger management courses and/or drug rehabilitation ( if they need it). Then they should be required to find a job and pay the Government for their education... like a student loan. They could remain on probation until their "loan" is paid off. But that still doesn't take care of the death row inmates or the lifers. IMO, if they are sentenced to life in prison or death, then that's where they stay. They have been judged a menace to society and they should remain behind prison walls till they are dead one way or the other. Which brings me to another point, Isn't a life sentence the same as death? Either way you ain't going to get out of prison alive. One is more cruel than the other. Care to take a guess which it the worst sentence? Some of you here say a Death Sentence is just a form of revenge, but isn't locking some one up in a 6'x9' cell for the rest of that their natural life and never letting them out revenge also? __________________ Sir Taliesin<br /><br />Hello... Good bye.