7. Legalize drugs, empty the prisons, employ every released prisoner, and lock down the borders.
He said that they should not be used to empty overflowing prisons or redress trial delays.
Some may accuse him of being a liberal reformer looking to pour scorn on the penal system and empty the prisons of criminals.
Fidel seized the occasion, not only to rid the island of "malcontents" but also to empty Cuban prisons of many criminals, whom his security agents ferried to the waiting boats.
It was this accusation that led the Iraqi leader to virtually empty his prisons on Oct. 20, giving Western reporters, admitted that day to Abu Ghraib, a first-hand glimpse of the slaughterhouse the country has become.
From his account, you could see how it could halve the crime rate, eliminate burglary, empty the prisons, dismantle the base of organised crime, reduce the num- ber of addicts and Class A deaths, swell tax revenues, sort out Afghanistan, and clear the deficit.
They have asked to empty the prisons.
(And god knows they're not about to end drug prohibition and empty our prisons of nearly 40percentt of the young, male African-American population).
Two weeks after Mr. Bradbury sent his letter, President George W. Bush emptied the prisons, ordering the C.I.A.'s remaining 14 prisoners transferred to the American military's detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
He made some silly suggestions early on, such as using empty prisons to house homeless people.
