Why isn't this obvious to anyone with a modicum of intelligence?Remember when Cheney shot his buddy Harry Whittington in the face in that hunting accident? Interesting to note that as a longtime member of the Texas GOP, Whittington was the only Republican to serve on the board of the Texas Department of Corrections. His experience led him to make an observation I’ve tried to make several times over the years.
While prisons get criminals (or “terrorists”) off the streets and dish out retributive justice, what about restorative justice?
We get so caught up in what criminals “deserve” that we lose sight of what Cheney’s buddy came to see: “Prisons are to crime what greenhouses are to plants.”
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Prisons
Please take a look at the article called The Gulag Americano by Sean Gonsalves Here's a brief excerpt:
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