Living Life at 70
Connie writes about the topics close to her heart, such as music, literature, ideas, people, life, and her undying love for learning.
I love literature, I love music, I love ideas, I love people, I love life, I keep learning.
I cannot helping thinking of the role of prisons in preparing prisoners to re-enter society?
I have been following the court case of three inmates who assaulted a fellow cell mate and inflicted the most degrading acts on a fellow prisoner and human being.
Should the objective of imprisonment be only punishment for the crime? If that be the only objective then these prisoners serve the term and re-enter society as more hardened criminals, judging from this particular incident.
I wonder too what the prison authorities were doing when these terrible acts were being inflicted on somebody in their charge? What is their responsibility?
Perhaps it is time that we, as a society, re-examine the role of incarceration and the role of prisons, the legal system and society in rehablitating prisoners.
I would worry, if any of these men, featured in this case ( Straits Times, 15 July ‘09, pg B6) live in my neighbourhood.
- Postscript, September 29, 2008
- Fearless Old Woman, September 1, 2008
- Confused “me”, February 12, 2009
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- The Joys of Aging, September 8, 2008
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