5 Jul
2001
5 Jul
'01
4:13 p.m.
On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Sandy Sandfort wrote:
Anyone who can be safely paroled, should probably not have been convicted.
I don't see how that follows, but in any case, it is irrelevant to my point, that from the individual's point of view, parole is better than incarceration.
The difference is that most of the people around here seem to be arguing from the societal point of view. (Cheap) parole, even if sheer bliss for the felon, is a bad thing when thought about with due respect to what it does to whole communities. Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy, mailto:decoy@iki.fi, gsm: +358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front