Re: FORWARD: "Prison Blues"

From: Michael S. Lorrey (mike@lorrey.com)
Date: Tue May 18 1999 - 17:18:02 MDT


DouglasWhitworth wrote:

> >In a message dated 5/17/99 1:41:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> >david_musick@juno.com writes:
> >
> ><< Besides the fact that you can go home at the end of the day, what is the
> > real difference 'twixt gov't schools and gov't prisons? >>
> >
> >Pretense.
> >
> To the above 2 institutions you can add a third, compulsory military
> conscription.

Not quite. You can always get cashiered from the military, and if you are bad enough, expelled from government schools. The only ways to get kicked out of a prison are to either do your time, or be even worse to get sent to a worse prison.

Mike Lorrey



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