Hamilton and Bonus went to Five Points prison to interview Joseph, and Hamilton tracked down Belgrove.
Once the state's Five Points prison opens here in August, Romulus will be home to 3,200 free-ranging souls and 2,200 inmates.
Frankly I don't see the point to prison, I never have — if prison is to exist as some sort of punishment for the harm one has done to others, it seems to me that until Orval Faubus has twenty years in the can, no one can argue convincingly that Pound deserves twenty minutes.
The first and most obvious point about prison is that we need prisons; there are some very nasty people for whom treatment is not going to work and freedom in society will result in havoc for free citizens.
A case in point: the prison system.
"The whole point of prison terms is to deter conduct in that community, and we know jail sentences are an effective deterrent," Mr. Welch added.
At one point, a "prison cell" was set up in a TV studio, windowless and cramped, similar to the one in which Gilad was presumed held.
Shifman said that at one point the prison — its women scarred from puberty by the inextricable triad of poverty, prostitution, and drugs — had the highest percentage of staff sexual misconduct of any prison in the United States.
"Marrying at Rikers: Few Frills, Many Rules" (news article, May 10) makes an important if unintended point: Although prison nuptials are grim and cheerless, the civil right to marry is so fundamental that it is not denied to inmates convicted of very serious crimes, even if they will not be free to live with their spouses for years, if ever.
Up to a certain point, long prison terms increase, they do not reduce, recidivism.
