Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site tty3b.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!security!genrad!grkermit!masscomp!clyde!floyd!harpo!eagle!mhuxl!cbosgd!ihnp4!we13!tty3b!mjk From: mjk@tty3b.UUCP Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: prisons - (nf) Message-ID: <288@tty3b.UUCP> Date: Tue, 24-Jan-84 19:03:00 EST Article-I.D.: tty3b.288 Posted: Tue Jan 24 19:03:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 27-Jan-84 08:26:26 EST References: <4942@uiucdcs.UUCP>, <148@ihu1g.UUCP> Organization: Teletype Corp., Skokie, Ill Lines: 13 Yeah, the comment from the defense attorney on Sixty Minutes was pretty stupid. He even stuck to it when pressed. But I think there was more to that story than the stupidity of one man. It seems there is a very real question: does one solve a social problem by subjecting physically, mentally or socially retarded people to life in a physically, socially and mentally disturbed context? More succinctly, does one 'rehabilitate' rapists by subjecting them to (repeated) rapes in prison? Mike Kelly