Prisons | Prisons Should Punish Inmates
About the author: Rowland Nethaway is the senior editor of the Waco Tribune-Herald, the newspaper of Waco, Texas.
The porno videotape of mass murderer Richard Speck taking drugs and living it up in prison makes a piercing argument for the death penalty.
Speck says aloud what many law-abiding Americans fear most about their prison systems.
‘‘If they only knew how much fun I was having in here, they would turn me loose,’’ Speck said. Actually, had they only known how much fun he was having in prison, a lot of people would have wanted to take...
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- Introduction
- Are Prisons Effective?
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How Should Prisons Treat Inmates?
- The Treatment of Inmates: An Overview
- Prisons Should Punish Inmates
- Prisons Should Rehabilitate Inmates
- Inmates Should Not Be Coddled
- Prisoners Should Not Have Access to Weight Training Facilities
- Weight Training Is a Valuable Rehabilitative Tool
- Violent Inmates Should Not Be Placed in Super-Max Prisons
- Should Prisons Be Privatized?
- Should Prisons Use Inmate Labor?
- Organizations to Contact
- Bibliography
- Copyright
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