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On one hand, I agree with the majority of you -- sex changes while in prison? WTF? On the other hand, I agree with valkyrie -- someday, 99.9 percent of these prisoners will be released, and do you really want them coming out more embittered, angry, etc. than they went in due to the fact that they wasted years of their lives doing nothing but sitting around or fighting? I think more education can only be a good thing, although I'm on the fence about things like cable TV.
Really, though, I don't think it's a very important issue because most of our prisoners aren't getting adequate care as it is. There was a case here a couple years ago where an inmate died of an asthma attack (!) because the guards were too lazy to get his doctor so he could take his inhaler. Rape is a huge problem in jails and so is decent health care, and I'm sure there are other issues that we don't even know about.
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