On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 23:53 -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Firstly, Phil wasn't in prison. Certainly the US governments undue > harassment of him was a great burden on him, but it is not nearly as > harsh as prison would have been. That's a common misconception, prison would have actually been far easier for his classification type. He probably would have gone to minimum custody and work release right off the bat. Not being able to pay rent nor eat would have been worse. <g> The stuff you see on TV is mostly Maximum-Custody for the purely pathological. Only a few live like that when you consider that 2.7 million are locked up. The vast majority serve time in Medium or Minimum custody. Those will be released if they keep their noses clean, so they do. Ric > > ================================================ > My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: > "There are two Great Sins in the world... > ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. > Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. > Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ > http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar > http://www.wayward4now.net > ================================================ >
