[Lazamataz]

The commercial begins with the sound of wind whistling over a lonely prairie. The camera pans to cyclones of razor wire atop the high walls of a federal prison outside Yankton, South Dakota. It then cuts to an intake area inside the prison, where a newly arrived inmate is processed. Two guards walk him down a long hall to his awaiting cell. Other prisoners catcall and whistle at him.

Words flash on the screen: "Think carrying a 9mm makes you a man?"

There is a pause, and more whistling.

"Lots of people in federal prison find that attractive."

Greeeeeat. Prison rape as a punishment tool.

I am losing some of that gusto for Project Exile that I first had. The original concept was good but it sounds like -- as happens almost all the time -- it is being corrupted.

[Dimensio]

I heard about a case -- I don't have any specifics, so I'll have to dig it up -- where a store clerk grabbed the gun of a robber (who stupidly set it down) and foiled the robbery, only to later be charged under illegal posession (simply for grabbing the gun) because of his own past criminal history. I think that sounds like corruption.

[Sandy]

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[helper]

I think the origional idea behind Exile in Richmond was good and worked. As I understand it was to get the drug dealers off the streets, and to send them to a distant prison so they would not be able to run their empire through "family visits". It seems that when the druggies were arrested on drug charges alone, they requested a O.J. jury and were out in no time. In VA Exile guaranteed 5 years even if they got O.J'ed on the drug charge.

I notice many of the people sited where drug related convictions. What's the difference between a user and dealer, they both perpetuate the drug problem?

[MileHi]

Greeeeeat. Prison rape as a punishment tool.

Yes, that implication is sick. Exile is promoted as a way to get violent felons off the street, yet very few picked up under Exile have any violent history.