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Subject: Re: Re: Bastille mentality (and moriarty's ?
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Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 10:59:48 EST
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Perhaps some people saw the news story a few days ago about a group
of prison inmates who were let out of jail early, due to a red-tape
foul up. Most of them went home and were doing a very good job of 
reconstructing their lives -- going back to school, starting businesses,
and so forth. Then the mistake was discovered and they all had to go back
to prison. I don't think this is fair -- the function of prison is
to rehabilitate and if it has worked (a rare occurence) why keep the
people in prison? The problem of punishing criminals is sometimes not
as black and white as some people would hope...

	Wayne