On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:10:22 -0500, "Gig 601XL Builder"
wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in
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Here's the problem Larry. If the criminal justice system were to do what
would be required to stop prison rapes and other assaults and crime in
prison, the liberals in the country would be calling that and assault on the
rights of those in prison.

What is it that YOU feel would be required to enforce the laws in
prisons?

Prison is a bad place and it is supposed to be.

Are you able to cite any authoritative or even credible information
that supports your assertion?

It is full of bad people and it is supposed to be.

Of if it were only so simple as you paint it.

There are a lot of people incarcerated for possession of illicit
substances who don't belong in prison; they belong in rehab. In fact,
it is my understanding, that over half of our nation's prison
population are there for violations of drug laws.

Do you feel that Scooter Liby, Duke Cunningham, and Paris Hilton are
"bad" (whatever you definition of 'bad' is) people, and that it's
appropriate for them to be anally raped as part of their sentence?

Personally, I would classify Charles Manson as bad, and John Hinkley
as deranged, not necessarily bad, drug users as sick, and a good
portion of those in jail as mentally defective. Each classification
requires different treatment, but none deserve to be abused.

The only real fix for prisoner on prisoner crime is to work them so hard
that when they are not working they sleep.

Perhaps.

The real fix is to purge the jails of those inmates who are
incarcerated for victimless crimes, so that there would be adequate
penal facilities to separate the violent criminals from the general
inmate population and it would free prison personnel to enforce the
laws. But that's not going to happen as long as the religious right
is in power, Congress is corrupt, and the general population is so
uneducated and apathetic as to be unconcerned with injustice.