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Old 12-06-2007, 18:06   #9
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Re: Prisoners and the Internet/ PCs

Errr...

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to entertain them during the tedium of the lock-up hours.
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help to keep prisoners occupied, entertained,
This is prison we are talking about? The place where people go when they decide to not live by the same laws as us?

You can tell a lag wrote it. Laptops with broadband and webcams, TVs, all paid for by us mugs? I'm not sure how keeping lags 'entertained' fits in with the Incapacitation-Deterrence-Restitution-Retribution-Rehabilitation paradigm. I don't get free Internet access and laptops, why should criminals? I don't know how he has the front to suggest it. It was probably the same front that made him thought to hell with laws, i'll do what I want.

Prison should be punative and rehabilitory. They should be taught how to use computers and the Internet, but not have access to the real Internet, only a closed LAN that has a small selection of pre-approved webpages on something uninteresting. Its for education, not entertainment.

Prison should be fun? Whatever next. I think I have heard it all now.
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