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To: Elsie
If you ever get to London, visit the London Dungeon it talks about crime and swift punishment in old England. Maybe we should use this sort of rule--hang or flog criminals and let them go--save momey on prisons. Or we could send them someplace--the English used Georgia--we could use---say Haiti?
19 posted on 02/19/2004 3:18:06 PM PST by Hollywoodghost (Let he who would be free strike the first blow)
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To: Hollywoodghost
If you ever get to London, visit the London Dungeon it talks about crime and swift punishment in old England. Maybe we should use this sort of rule--hang or flog criminals and let them go--save momey on prisons. Or we could send them someplace--the English used Georgia--we could use---say Haiti?

I beg to differ, Ma'am! Georgia was a debtor's colony, not a penal colony. And after 231 years, we still haven't out of debt.

I believe Australia, Tasmania, and possibly New Zealand were truly penal colonies.

37 posted on 02/19/2004 7:45:02 PM PST by night reader
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