From: ghost_of_morphy@morphyisamongus.com   
      
   I tried to explain Stewie's concept of shutting down the prisons and   
   letting a just society come into existence to a convict yesterday.   
   His response was interesting.  He said that, while he felt that the   
   sentences of imprisonment being handed down were way to excessive,   
   that he felt prison in general served a useful purpose in getting the   
   convict out of society and giving him a chance to get his mind and his   
   priorities right.  He said that he knew that he had been on the wrong   
   track and that he certainly had needed to be imprisoned for a time.   
   This kind of demonstrates how far out in left field Stewie is, along   
   with the fadt that he appears to think that both allowing and denying   
   inmates access to TV are forms of control, as mentioned below.  Talk   
   about your wanting to have your cake and eat it too.....   
      
      
   On 11 Nov 2003 17:55:08 GMT, stewartconnor@aol.com (Stewart Connor)   
   wrote:   
      
   >Over two million in prison in the U.S.   
   >To keep them from complaining over and over to the media, the FBI, the DOJ,   
   >Amnesty International, et al, the Prison-Industrial-Complex is able to use any   
   >method it can, including murder.   
   >Various methods employed to keep prisoners off-balance and more worried about   
   >their own minute to minute survival than attempting to raise their voice in   
   >witness to what they know is criminal, inhumane treatment of themselves and   
   >those around them similarly victimized:   
   >Overcrowding-  Crowd the old with the young so that that older, more   
   >knowledgeable in who to write to about abuse are effectively made victims of   
   >the young teens and near teens who think of overcrowded dorms as their new   
   >territory and the old as easy prey.   
   >Dont allow too many older types to have ready access to each other, they will   
   >attempt to get attention from agencies outside the prison.   
   >Crowd various racially motivated antagonistic to each other's race together,   
   >thus the guards can simply observe the acting out of hatred rather than expend   
   >their own energy abusing.   
   >Give Television to those for whom it will keep them from noticing what is   
   >happening around them.  Take the TV away and break it(that is if the prisoner   
   >paid for it) if this prisoner is noticing the abuses and raising any kind of   
   >complaint about them.   
   >If prisoner is still attempting to get authorities outside prison to respond   
   to   
   >the crimes comitted agianst prisoners, put him in a supermaximum security   
   >prison where it is much easier to prevent him from getting any mail out and   
   all   
   >mail can be opened and read and phone use can be prevented.   
   >Raise the price that all families must pay for prisoners to call(the current   
   >rate averages $10 for fifteen minutes...they are trying to raise that)   
   >Do not allow prisoners to call anyone excpet those on a list which they must   
   >submit for approval, list can be no longer than ten(on average).   
   >   
   >This list goes on and on. Imagine how many ways you can abuse a totally   
   >defenseless person who is dependent on you for even water to drink(not to   
   >mention food)... any method you can imagine is used.   
   >   
   >IS IT ANY WONDER THAT PRISONERS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO VOTE... THEY WOULD VOTE   
   THIS   
   >CORRUPTION OUT...   
   >   
   >This is just a portion of the way this segment of society is silenced...  It   
   is   
   >not totally effective.  You reading this know.  Spread the word. Remember   
   >Winston Churchill's phrase: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."   
   It   
   >is up to all of us to end this scourge on our society, this fundamental cause   
   >of crime in our society is that society has become the criminal.   
      
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