The Rehabilitation of Prisoners

[Liann]

I just read his bio. and all I can say is wow. I just don't know what I would think if I was the parent of one of those children he murdered. I would have a hard time caring what amount of childhood trauma he had been through. Your husband must have the hardest job! I can't imagine being able to stay objective especially if you have children the ages of the victims your client hunted down. And then to see this other side of them and know what could have been if someone would have stepped in earlier in that person's life. So tough...

 

[My2girls]

Just wanted to thank you and your DH for sharing all this. I have seen that movie years ago and it was very disturbing. Your and your DH's "inside" view of all this is indeed a call for me to give it all much more thought before making a hasty judgement about people I know nothing about.

Mary

 

[LaughingWater]

Thank you for all of the thoughtful replies.

On the less emotional subject of tax money, I was referring not to trial costs (though they are impressively large) but to the cost of housing a murderer for a life term. I wonder how that adds up.

I can't whittle it all down to money, of course. I don't know what to think about the rest of it. I'm still not sure allowing a prisoner to sit in prison for life is any more compassionate than humanely ending it. I'm not saying we shouldn't make the effort to intervene in lives before it gets to that point, but once the violence is committed...then what? What should society do with them?