From: Randall Parker 

In , note these
cogitations from blucy{at}mediaone.net Bill Lucy:
> > So if parents get thrown in prison do you advocate putting their kids in
> > there with them?
>
> I heard a very interesting story on radio today that makes me think that it
> might be a good thing to do. A girl was sentenced to 9 years in an adult
> facility at age 14 because of armed robbery and aggravated kidnapping.

One wonders about her home life.

> The
> prison population ended up taking care of the girl.

How nice.

> I'm wondering if that
> having children in the facility might help the inmates.

Probably.

I saw a show once about prisoners (maybe in Illinois come to think of it)
at one institution that trained dogs for handicapped people. They showed
the dogs at the end of their time with the prisoners being taken away to
their ultimate owners and at the same time a fresh crop of 3-4 month old
dogs being brought in to be the next wave of trainees. One could tell the
prisoners just loved doing this.

Parenthetically, I think restitution type sentences are a really good idea.
Back in the less formal era of the 20s and 30s my grandfather use to
recommend restitution style sentences for some of the criminals he tracked
down and arrested. Since he knew the judges they went along with his
recommendations in many cases.

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