[muawiyah]

I would hazard a guess that the prison/jail murder/homicide rates are high enough to make it look like recidivism rates can be reduced with tender loving care and teach-ins.

[Gaffer]

I believe here in Georgia an inmate has been granted a stay of execution (I think for a prison murder) because of some legal question not having to do with the real problem, proponents say. Proponents are saying he’s ‘intellectually challenged’ with an IQ of about 70 and can’t be executed.

So the question is, if you’re an inmate already in prison for murder (not executable), and you got life, what is the deterrent from doing it again? Jail? If you could do it without being called ‘premeditated’, ‘race-based’, etc.?

[allmendream]

You take a dangerous animal and put it into a cage with other dangerous animals for a couple years - who expects to get out of it a well behaved animal ready to interact peacefully with society?

Prisons are for punishment - not rehabilitation.