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You are correct, Stalin and his kind never locked anybody up. They either shot them to save incarceration expenses, or banished them to Siberia where they either were worked to death or died from the elements.

I appreciate you keeping me informed how my tax dollars are spent in order that extremists like Ms. Davis might air their hate of our form of government. I know you do this intentionally just to keep me in a boil.

I do have a suggestion, in order to counter Ms. Davis' extremist views, I would recommend inviting Pat Robertson to speak at UNCG in order that he would pray down upon her all the Old Testament plagues that would smite and rid her from the earth.

As far as I know, Ms. Davis is in fine health. That must confound Rev. Robertson.

I think the time has come to abolish all crime. Whatever anybody wants, take it. If you get away with it, it was meant to be. We have to get more Zen about this stuff. People are such whining babies.

You prison industry boys are a little rough on the sister socialist aren't you? I guess you correction industry growth folks or " prisoner of interest " boys never heard of this Russian Red!

" The degree of civilization can be judged by observing it's prisoners" * Dostoyevsky

I believe the sister was refering to the number of prisoners that this country has behind bars as the highest on the planet, and that over 70 % are related to drug control laws not counting that 70 % are black! God knows how many other prisoners the CIA, NSA, and whatever other spook sub contractors operations that we have out there waterboarding them to death in order to spill the beans on a camel driver north Afg.

Maybe the sister and the Rev Pat can "duke" it out on campus next week on who is the toughest dude with AK-47's as the final solution?

Note! In the above statement " The degree of civilization can be judged by observing it's prisoners" * Dostoyevsky

I left out the part about brother Dostoyevsky making this statement after doing a little heavy time in th e Tsar's Imperial detention system

Good Lord, I thought this gun totin, pinko dingy was dead!
Oh well, someday.

Connie,

In light of the "country club atmosphere (color TVs, climate controlled environments, sports complexes, access to illegal drugs, etc.)" of many of our prisons, I think the observer would note that this is the greatest disincentive against crime.

Without respect to ethnicity and intending to be color blind in all matters as we all should be, if you do the crime, you do the time.

Just imagine, a guy does a crime, he's sentenced to prison where he undegoes intensive testing to determine the root causes of his abusive nature. Then he enters a program that brings him around to the point of acknowledging the harm he has done, and takes personal responsibility to learn his crime-cycle and interventions so as to not reoffend again. He then has only a 3% chance of recidivism versus 80% for untreated population. Imagine that! Well, it exists and has been for ten years. It's the SOAR program at Harnett Correctional (Sex Offenders Acknowledgemnt of Responsibility.) The thing I would have you consider, as would Angela Davis, if such a thing can work, instead of 72 guys a year getting it, why not the rest of General Prison Population? Why aren't the victims, their families and potential victims of crime and their families, churches, community groups, service clubs, Congressmen and Senators up in arms and demanding that this happen? Are the Judges, Lawyers, DA's, Sheriffs and Parole Boards worried about being put out of work? If this is available and has a ten year track record of success, I would ask our Christian Nation, just why do we not do this? Is locking a man up, to not treat him, Christian? Is locking a man up to re-offend on release an example of the Christian Walk for the victims? Do you ever wonder why so many blacks in this country are converting to Islam? Well, it's plain distasteful to be around some of those who pass themselves off as a Christian, but think nothing of killing a man who had been tea-bagged in and out of prison and recieved no true treatment. As a potential solution to the crime problem who, after treatment, could have worked in the neighborhoods and help prevent youth and adult offenses, became just a another problem for his victim as well as himself, and we're off the hook because he's "guilty" and we killed him for revenge.

Hello. Do you see this as 'just'? Is this what Jesus actually preached? Have you ever just read the red words? Preachers and Ministers, am I actually far off-base with this?

The victims pay the real bill for the failure of our prison system. Polite Society doesn't begin to pay what they do. It's time that those of us in the 'Real World" acknowledge and take responsibility for our lack of true Christian Works and demand for everyone's sake, victim and offender alike, that rehabilitation begins.

Jimmy Carter wrote that true Christianity is love for the unlovable. Ok, where is it? Show me what you are working with, either you're about locking people up or you're about rehabilitation and reconciliation. Guess which attitude will go over best, when you actually meet Christ in the hereafter? Guess which one will have him pulling on the Handle to Hell. Think on that one, it's your own soul that's in peril, and have a blessed day.