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From: drr@ihopa.UUCP (D. R. Rueckheim)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: Should rape trials be televised - (nf)
Message-ID: <199@ihopa.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 27-Apr-84 10:42:34 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 27 10:42:34 1984
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You are assuming that going to jail for a crime would be
a way to stop the person from committing the same crime
again when they were released. I dont know where your 
facts came from to support that idea. In my opinion jail
is a good place for the unexperienced criminal to find
out the "right" way to commit crimes. It also has the added
benefit that it makes the person resent society. I think that
tha average ex-con feels more that society was wrong for
putting them through the inconvenience of prison rather than
feeling that they deserved to be put there because they had
to pay for their actions. 
I am not trying to say that the 12 year old should be slapped
on the hand, not allowed to watch TV for a day and sent to
bed without dinner. Its just that I dont like the idea that
there is a possibility that my taxes are paying for the
criminal education of another person that might not have 
turned out to be an anit-social person. 
NOTE: The above is my personal opinion. All flames will be
      gladly accepted.
-- 
        D. R. Rueckheim
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	AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, Il.