[RavenATB]

"No, I said I ran out of sympathy. In other words, I don't give a damn about him or the plight he placed himself in."

I must say that I, too, find your comments more than simply inhumane. As a conservative I always thought that my contemporaries were concerned with the concept of justice in our judicial system.

Unless we're willing to apply a certain set of moral standards to the way our prison population is treated and housed, we really don't have a system of justice for criminals, anymore, but a system of revenge.

To take your concept of "if he didn't do the crime he wouldn't have suffer that fate" philosophy further down its own path, shall we all say that a young girl who gets raped after sneaking out of the house at night "deserves what she got," because she did something wrong?

If I see your wife walking down the street in a low-cut top and barely enough to cover her ass, and she gets pulled into the bushes by some rapist, should I walk away and tell myself that she got what she asked for?

Do we really want inmates to become part of the punishment process, thereby being able to set up a secondary system of punishment within prison walls. Do we want hardened criminals to have that much control over the lives of someone else?

[P-40]

I must say that I, too, find your comments more than simply inhumane.

That is probably because you are just simply misreading what I wrote.