> Unfortunately try getting it allowed. Scott Geller, a professor of mine at > Virginia Tech, has set up a behavioral economy at a local prison. The > program worked great for a while. There was significantly less violence, the > day to day conditions improved considerably, more prisoners were attending > classes, etc. The big problem with the program was that it ended up > regulating things like cigarettes and other things that were used in the > prison economy. One of the power brokers, as Geller called the guy, talked > with his lawyer and managed to get an injunction stopping the entire > project, on constitutional grounds. Within days of the program's withdrawal > things were back to what was happening previously - lots of violence, low > turnout for classes etc. So the best thing that you can say about the > program was that it worked.
This is really interesting - are cigarettes a constitutional right? ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
