Jails and Prisons

[C-YA]

Let's transform them from institutions of punishment to ones of rehibilitation and compassion A-musem-ent Please reply via E-mail.This needs be posted to our inferno govt. (stop building more prisons and jails, instead of needed schools!!!) Prisoners can only make collect calls out. That's$3.22 the 1st minute, and$1.23 each following minute. Prisoners cannot make 2 calls home a day. That's at least $10.00a day cost to his happy family. And the Guards are getting rich off the telephone co. What's wrong with that picture? C-YA

[C-YA]

Let's transform them from institutions of punishment to ones of rehibilitation and compassion A-musem-ent Please reply via E-mail.This needs be posted to our inferno govt. (stop building more prisons and jails, instead of needed schools!!!) Prisoners can only make collect calls out. That's$3.22 the 1st minute, and$1.23 each following minute. Prisoners cannot make 2 calls home a day. That's at least $10.00a day cost to his happy family. And the Guards are getting rich off the telephone co. What's wrong with that picture? C-YA

[C-YA]

Let's transform them from institutions of punishment to ones of rehibilitation and compassion A-musem-ent Please reply via E-mail.This needs be posted to our inferno govt. (stop building more prisons and jails, instead of needed schools!!!) Prisoners can only make collect calls out. That's$3.22 the 1st minute, and$1.23 each following minute. Prisoners cannot make 2 calls home a day. That's at least $10.00a day cost to his happy family. And the Guards are getting rich off the telephone co. What's wrong with that picture? C-YA

[anonymous]

C-Ya, <BR> Thank You for your comments. Are you familiar with the Prison-Ashram program? The Human Kindness Foundation might interest you. Bo and Sita Lozoff {Authors of "We're All Doing Time" and Richard Alpert, also known as Baba Ram Dass, (Author of "Be Here Now"} have a very interesting website. If you do check it out let us know what you think. <BR> Anonymous

[steve]

who cares, they are being punished for there crimes to all of us,lets not start rewarding people to be crimminals.

[Nick]

Steve, keep an open mind about it. yes, they are locked up for a reason. however if you know some one who is incarcerated, or if you have ever done any significant amount of time behind bars, you would know that most of the time you come out more of a criminal then when you came in, there is no rehabilitation. now, if a person is truly trying to change, i believe they should have that option. and since 90 percent of the time in jail you are trying not to die of boredom, why not spend that time transforming your mind with programs like the brain supercharger or the ultra meditation or x-mind. the practice of meditation is already wide spread among prisoners, why not push them in the right direction. it is not up to us to judge and punish, that day will come for all of us, if you believe in the collective unconscious, then think of it this way, when we were born we came from something, and when we die we are going back to that something, bottom line is we are all innocent and pure when we are born, it is the world into which we're born that makes us who we are, and some of us really DO NOT have a choice, the choice is made even before we are born.

-nick