[LAF] Guardian website article:Breaking the mind-forged manacles Abolish prison?

[Volodya]

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  Breaking the mind-forged manacles

Abolish prison? Unthinkable. Unless you look at how badly custodial
sentencing fails us - then it starts to make a lot of sense

In January last year, an organisation calling itself No More Prison
<http://www.alternatives2prison.ik.com/> was launched. Their aims are
precisely what it says on their tin: they call for an end to the
building of more jails. But they go further, seeking the abolition of
the current penal system. Off the wall? Suggesting the mass release of
murderers, rapists and terrorists? Not quite; the group's main
proposition is that prisons are failed institutions and that the time
has come to seek radical new ways of dealing with offenders.

Full article.....

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/eric_allison/2007/11/breaking_conceptual_shackles.html

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