From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!rabbit!jj
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Re: Replying about Hinkley Re: utzoo!Laura among others.
Article-I.D.: rabbit.602
Posted: Mon Jul 12 12:37:07 1982
Received: Tue Jul 13 06:26:33 1982
References: rabbit.601 harpo.853

	Well, the chance of a novice getting killed in a penitentary is
about 10% according to some folk's statistics.  Assuming that they are
wrong, and that the chance is 1%, the risk of death still is very 
large.  I grant you that asylums are NOT great places to visit, even as
an observer, but they can, to a person willing to shuffle along and look
lost for the requsite period of time, be safe.  I certainly couldn't
stand an asylum, but then I wouldn't get myself put there either...
	Besides, the reply assumes that you will get out of prison alive and
sane.  Alive maybe... Sane, never.  The only kind of sanity that I can see
being generated in prison is hate driven revenge.  Whether or not that
is sane is another  question, i.e. do prisons drive the
prisoners insane?  I could muster arguements either way, myself.
	By the way, there are enlightened asylums, even those for
the criminally insane.  A person who has money, or fame, behind him could
most likely chose the asylum that he winds up in.
It's certainly punishment, but for a lesser time (1-2 years vs. 20 yrs)
and with a lesser chance of bodily harm.