[lbo-talk] Close the Prisons Re: Irish priests beat, raped children

Sheldon humanist.observer at gmail.com
Fri May 22 14:21:13 PDT 2009


On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 8:30 AM, ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:
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> I think the pro-prison crowd will have something to stand on if the subject
> of this thread read "child rape reduces to zero as imprisoned population
> grows". Except it doesn't. And so the righteous hand-waving and tough guy
> rhetoric flows aided by the echo chamber. ;-)
>
>        --ravi

Nobody's "pro-prison", or at least I am not. I am actually quite supporttive of radical prison and judicial system reform. I just think it far too simple to say lets abolish all prisons.

Sheldon



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