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Originally Posted by BrotherEastman
Okay, when we spend taxpaying dollars for them to go to college, watch movies, have a rec room, and excersize equipment (among other things), its like not being in prison. Just because they have a fence with barbed wire on top, doesn't mean that they aren't treated well. I understand that it costs taxpayers $30,000.00 to house one prisoner for a year, this is justice?
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Dear BrotherEastman
I believe you may be expanding the argument slightly to include all prisoners. You know in old England there were two types of crimes misdemeanors and felonies much like we have today. The difference was death was the only punishment for felonies. It did not matter if it were rape, robbery, or merely pouching one of the king's deer.
As far as them being treated well, they are not. Perhaps a tour or two in a real prison ministry would change the view which is acquired by watching tele er sorry, by watching videos.
Also as a "christian" nation (which I would maintain we no longer are but that would be a topic for a different thread) are you honestly proposing that rehabilitation should be totally foregone??
Without vocational training, counseling, and the such how could you possibly hope that there would not be repeat offense??
Without being foolishly naive on the one hand, is it impossible to show love on the other?
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