RB> had, since age  seventeen, undergone six years of "legal"
RB> physical and psychological torture,  degradation and
I.e. punishment for crimes committed.  I would think
being locked up and most of my freedom removed was
torture.  Then again I would think having to live
somewhere where I had to worry about having my kids
shot in a cross fire between drug dealers or gang
members as torture also.
RB> had once told the  institutional psychiatrist that the scars
RB> of cigarette burns on his penis,  inflicted by police in a
RB> forced questioning pertaining to the denunciation of a 
RB> major heroin dealer, had caused him to try and commit
And every person in the system has told someone that
they didn't do it.  Also 'ratting' out any prisoner who
might, or might not, have inflicted the burns could
cause the prisoner to have his penis removed in a
violent way, i.e. ripped out.
RB>                     - Yves Bourque, PRISON ABOLITION
And where does dear old Yves suggest we put criminals?
Send them to 'vacation' at his house?
                      Remember:  Freedom isn't Free!
--- timEd-B11
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