(March 4, 2015 at 2:37 pm)robvalue Wrote: I may be a bit naive, but the prison system in England seems like a bit of a joke.
I know nothing of your prison system, but I can't imagine it being anywhere near as bad as ours. Calling it a joke would be fitting except for the seriousness of its flaws. Despite our relatively meager population, we house 1/4th of the world's prisoners.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell