Re: [Mpls] Incarceration the answer?

[Annie Young]

tI have been the silent lurker on this incareration - industrial prison 
complex industry that has encompassed our lives.  But I do recall hearing 
about the Boot Camp approach being used in Wisconsin and wonder how it 
worked.  (Anybody out there know. I always thought this might be a great 
solution and would at list give the offenders abit of manners and 
decorum.  Like getting up at some ungodly hour of the morning, making your 
bed, polish your shoes and march uniformly to the orders of your drill 
sergeant.  Now many of us assume and know that this is not a pretty picture 
for anyone those first few days or weeks but the old theory worked for 
many, taught a few manners and gave folks an education besides. And just 
think the weeks spent on "gun" training could be shortened since many of 
them already know that part. :-)
Anyway, I believe this truly might be one of the answers.
Wonder how much it costs in the bigger scheme of this industrial complex?
Annie

At 01:45 PM 8/19/03 -0500, Thomas T. Thai wrote:
<quote who="JIM  GRAHAM">

[...]
> A better suggestion is immediate corporal punishment at the public place
> where the crime was committed. Wet rattan across the booty, with all the
> world laughing at them.  No repeat for a year and it doesn't even appear
[...]
How about sending offenders to the military? I think that's a better way
of giving back to society rather than sitting in prison or corporal
punishment at the public place.
Thomas T. Thai // Whittier

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