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

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