On Jan 30, 2008 5:07 PM, Cory Doctorow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've started reading a couple Indian newspaper RSS feeds and I've hit an > acronym I can't seem to find a definition for, though I can winkle out > the meaning. > > The acronym is "RI" and it appears to refer to prison sentences. Is this > "remedial incarceration"?
Very few Indians would have come up with that particular acronym expansion -- the Indian attitude to imprisonment is that it is *punishment* not rehabilitation. -- b
