nullorchis (imported) wrote: Thu Mar 17, 2011 3:58 am Install bicycles or treadmills; have them pedal or run and generate electricity to help minimize the electricity cost of the prison.
If one were to look back in time when the Egyptians and Romans had slaves, a lot of work was done, with minimal cost and not that many guards. Not that they should be whipped, beaten or tortured. But then isn't mandatory castration a kind of torture?
Anyone who has intentionally caused bodily harm to anyone I think should be placed into isolation and not permitted to come in contact with other prisoners. They are beasts, and deserve to be treated like the beasts they are and never again see the light of day. If anything, give them rope and a cell with an eye hook on the ceiling and a wooden chair. Maybe they will do everyone a favor.
At what point do we decide that someone is less human than others? Have we given up on rehabilitation? Are some acts forgiveable and other acts are not? If a prisoner is cleared by DNA evidence and we have treated him in this way what have we created? Will this be the rule for women's prisons.
I have had to forgive not for them but for myself. I could not be as happy today if I was still carrying around all those negative emotions. Yes I was harmed and might even be happier if it had not happened. When you have healed it is easier to put the events into perspective.
and then into the general population