In a message dated 4/19/2000 12:21:40 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
bbrown@transcient.com writes:
>
> 2) Make the punishment for "stealing-a-living" crimes like burglary
> significantly less pleasant than working a menial job. Personally I favor
> replacing our current prison sentences with much shorter terms served in
> strict solitary confinement
Solitary makes crazy people. They go apeshit and beat people up and become
more irrational than before they went in. We don't want that.
One comedian had the best idea I have ever heard. Make inmates peddle bikes
all day and night to provide electricity for the whole nation. No one will
ever want to go back after ten years of that.
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