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Originally posted by texas*princess
Just FYI no i don't have "extensive experience in dealing with inmates", but it's human nature... some people feel remorse .. some don't.. maybe it's a psychological thing, or an emotional thing, but it's life. All people don't have the same personality, so while one person may later regret what he/she did to put themself in prison, another person may not.
And thanks for the info, but I am well aware that prisons do provide cheap labor, but really think of everything else they do there.. some prison imates may be eating better than other citizens in this country. Some prison imates get higher education as "rehabilitation" while some people can't even dream about going to college due to financial reasons and can't get assistance.
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Where is this all coming from? I'd like to see exactly where it says that most inmates sit on their ass and don't feel remorse. The fact is that you and I are just in college; we don't know jack shit about life let alone human nature.
Also, rehabilitation such as getting your GED and getting "higher education" are apples and oranges. How many inmates do you know that get their college educations?? And generally it's the areas in this country where people can neither afford to eat three times a day nor pursue "higher education" that provide the most crime and murder...doesn't that mean anything to you?
And in the end there is that list I provided of men in this thread that have been released and many more are being released each year because they are found to be innocent while the charges brought against them were false.
Furthermore, if people are deserving of death, what do YOU people who support the death penalty feel YOU deserve if someone is executed in a program that YOU supported? How about the prosecutors that pushed for the death sentence? How about the judge and jury that handed that sentence down? They clearly did murder an innocent man. How about executions that are clearly infractions of human rights (such as executions commited until the recent Supreme Court decision on the mentally retarded or those of children which are not banned in several states)? Texas has sure had it's share of such executions that even China would not perform (China does not execute children).
I guess for me the debate is truly solved in my first two posts to JustAMom. Perhaps they will clarify my position even more.
-Rudey
--Just another case of a powerful administrative constituency