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(...) It is hard for me to see how prison could be zero cost. Criminals tend to on the dim side and have low earning potential. How could one motivate them to work without rewarding them with (say) cable TV? In the UK, the cost of keeping a man (...) (22 years ago, 9-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) money, (...) their (...) work? (...) Hmm, I might still let them have slop... I would offer a variety of incentives. I don't see a problem with prisoners who are on their way to rehabilitation having access to TV and such. In fact, if they are (...) (22 years ago, 9-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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"lester Witter" <witter@erim-int.com> wrote in message news:HstoCt.1xzx@lugnet.com... (...) story (...) that if (...) would (...) man was (...) This is definitely a concern. I think I would be concerned even if it was done in such a way as to not be (...) (22 years ago, 9-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) releases a (...) the (...) You're speaking as if the only alternative to the death penalty is letting people free. If you can show me with reasonable certainty that a given person is a danger to society, then I am willing to put them in prison (...) (22 years ago, 9-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Didn't say that. In fact I do think there is culpability, if it can be shown that the state did not do its job in prosecuting the case. I can see the basis for a civil suit by the second victims against the cops that failed to properly (...) (22 years ago, 9-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) So you think that the state isn't in any way culpable for the murder of an innocent by a murderer who has been set free? (22 years ago, 9-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) You want the state to do it, that's the difference. (22 years ago, 9-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I fixed it, there is something there now if you click that ersatz link. :-) (22 years ago, 9-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Lester Witter wrote: <snip> (...) It was also used in "Lexx" the miniseries... THough in that series, iirc, almost any offence got you put up on the slab to be parsed (even being late for work!), and, again iirc, much (...) (22 years ago, 9-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Several, actually... you and I were posting at about the same time and I gave some suggestions for finding them. (...) There IS that tiny downside, yes. Hence another reason to oppose the death penalty. (22 years ago, 9-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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