"Joan Moyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hello Sue,
That's where my feeling about life imprisonment comes from. Rehab is a
different issue if you are not going to be released. The question then
becomes punishment and justice. What best serves those two goals? I think
sometimes LWP and sometimes the DP.
Joan
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> From: Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: L&I Justice
> Date: Monday, April 27, 1998 11:28 PM
>
> Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
> Hi Sody:
>
> A district attorney, the other night on Nightline, said that the law and
> prison aren't about rehabilitation. They are about justice and
> punishment.
>
> Sue
>
> > Bill :
> > How can you justify putting anyone in a cell for twenty five years??
I
> > see no sense in our present system of criminal justice. Prisons if you
> > must have them should be a sincere effort to reform the individual and
> > getting him back as a productive member of society. If that is not
> > possible than dispose of him so that he is no longer a burden on
society.
> > I can't imagine anything more horrible that sentencing a young person
( or
> > an old person either) to Life Without Parole, really Life Without
Hope.. On
> > one hand we talk of assisted suicide and euthanasia as a relief for
such a
> > life and on the other condemn people to that very thing in the justice
> > system.
> > Someone suggested twenty five years for a thirteen year old. In jail
until
> > thirty eight?? What kind of a person will he be and what kind of life
will
> > he be able to lead??
> > I guess I am the Dr. Kevorkian of law and order.
> >
> > The dirty old Gandy Dancer
>
> --
> Two rules in life:
>
> 1. Don't tell people everything you know.
> 2.
>
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