Um... pardon me, but if you commit a crime because you have a beef with society, then society throws you in a prison where you get raped and everybody knows about it / doesn't care, aren't you more likely to be angrier with society and thus commit more crimes once released?
The logic that this is what prisoners deserve is counterintuitive in that it works against the supposed end of prision, i.e. reducing / eliminating crime. If we are locking people up so they will come out worse off then before, perhaps we need to ask why are we have prisons in the first place. Further, if the conventional logic goes that whoever commits a crime is a criminal for life, the idea of temporary incarceration is insufficent for meeting the goal of destroying crime. I mean, the idea of punishment is great and all, but if doing time means more frequent and brutal crimes, I would be completely against the idea of prisons. At some point we must ask ourselves how bad we must make things for criminals to make them change their ways, not how bad we must make things for criminals. M > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 12:46 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: PREA - PRison Rape Elimination Act > > > I don't think I support this law. One of the great deterrents > against people going back out and committing crimes again is > prison rape. In addition, because it's so widely known, it's > even a deterrent before someone commits a crime in the first > place. If you knew that you'd be the sex toy of some 400 > pound slab of meat named bubba, you'd avoid crime like the > plague. "You do the crime, you get gang raped up the @ss. > Crime doesn't pay." > > > > > http://www.spr.org/en/pressreleases/2003/0904.html > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com
