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For any prison near a retirement home, hire a few old grandparents with a knack of lecturing whippersnappers for hours on end to deal with repeat offenders (people who keep ending up in prison for the wrong reason).
These prisoners will have a schedule time, (usually in the early early morning) where
these gramps will tell them what they did wrong in their life, and how the prisoner had it easy compared to them, and etc... This will go on, regardless of if the prisoner wants to end the session or not.
Of course they can choose not to listen to the gramps, in which case they will get sent off to the isolation ward.
Hopefully, the idea is that when they are released, they cannot have a single thought involving crime without the nagging voice of these gramps hovering over their head.
(Mis)prision
http://www.lectlaw.com/def2/m034.htm
All it takes is a little back-formation. [mouseposture, Oct 09 2010]
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Paging Dr. Ludovico, Dr. Ludovico .... |
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prision really should be a word. |
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"Silently to observe the commission of a felony, without
using any endeavors to apprehend the offender, is a
misprision." So, if a constable arrests a criminal in the act of
committing a felony -- that's "prision." Or
would be if English made any sense. |
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This stands a good chance of success. [+]. |
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By "success" you mean "promoting serial murder of elderly
pensioners?" |
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Well, yeah, there's that, [mouse]; but at least you know what will be tormenting (both of) them. |
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[Akimbo], I love this idea! Bun. [+] |
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Granny what big lectures you have. (+) |
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"All the better to scold you with, my dear!" |
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not sure this survives the cruel and unusual test |
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Cruel, possibly, but certianly not unusual to anyone who has ever been lectured at length by an older relative or friend. |
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"No! Not Ludwig Van! No!, No!, Nooo-o-o-o..." |
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<edit>Ah, it's just dawned on me who Dr Ludovico was. Excellent, [mouseposture]. |
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//the cruel and unusual test// |
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the thing about "cruel and unusual" is that the "unusual" part
can be dealt with by doing it often enough. Many
relationships exist on this basis. |
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I had a similar idea, but only about sending them to schools rather than prisons. |
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// schools rather than prisons // |
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Remind us again what the difference is... |
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Prisoners usually finish their stay with some new skill/s, be they mechanics, literacy or safecracking. Schools appear to be unable to impart any skills to their charges. |
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A goodly one; in which there are many confines,
wards and dungeons, Denmark being one o' the worst. |
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We too could be bounded in a nutshell and count
ourselves the kings of infinite space. |
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It's the bad dreams that spoil it all ... |
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This is torture. Sheer torture. + |
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