| Community Leader Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Ann Arbor, MI, USA Gender:  Posts: 834 Level up: 52%, 73 Points needed |  |  Hm... define mental affliction. One person in the article was quoted as saying, Quote: |
"We have to ask ourselves why we're doing this," says psychiatrist Stuart Grassian, a former faculty member at the Harvard Medical School and a consultant in criminal cases. "These aren't a bunch of cold, controlled James Cagneys. We're taking criminals who are already unstable and driving them crazy."
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Part of the reason we build prisons at all has always been the retributive urge. Those who do very bad things while they walk among us should lead very hard lives after they have been removed. That makes a lot of emotional sense. Whether it always makes practical sense is something else entirely.
| So, if we follow the dictum of the Seven Habits of Effective People, and begin with the end in mind, what end do we have in mind??? |