From: ghost_of_morphy@killfile.com   
      
   On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 03:56:32 GMT, "Critter"  wrote:   
      
   >   
   >   
   >An excellent question.   
   >   
   >If the system is allowing and even encouraging sexual assaults in prison,   
   >then it - as a system - is acting criminally as a rapist etc,   
      
   There is a distinction between allowing and encouraging (which as you   
   have rightfully pointed is criminal and can and should be prosecuted)   
   and being unable to prevent.  Just as police in the free world, we   
   generally respond to crimes after they have been committed.  My own   
   personal opinion is that, at least until recently, my own department   
   has responded far too weakly in instances of assault and rape.  That   
   is bad; but I would not characterize it as criminal.   
      
      
   > and therefore   
   >should be UNEMPLOYED by it's own standards of discrimination against   
   >offenders.   
      
   Good Lord, critter.  Someone who permits and encourages a rape should   
   be locked up.   
   >   
   >In other words, prison should be shut down and terminated in accordance with   
   >it's own standards of legitimizing discrimination against offenders, because   
   >IT is an offender.   
   >   
   Can't we just punish the guilty and reform the system so it doesn't   
   happen any more?   
      
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