SURE, BUT WILL IT BE RAPTURE PROOF?

[mburbank]

While I'm all in favor of getting non violent drug users out of our jails, your choice

" I'm willing to compromise my beliefs about church in state so that these people will get out prison and can become normal, productive members of society again (which a lot of druggies are). "

isn't what Jeb Bush is offering. He's talking about special treatment for christians and segregating prisoners based on religous beliefs. He isn't offering any kind of trade off, so saying you're willing to sacrafice one thing for another is in no way germaine.

As for both of your ideas about whipping inmates, while you may think you will never be on the wrong side of the law, you don't know it. I see compassion as a virtue, not a way to get what you want, or for that mnatter as a hedge against future ill treatment. My belief that prison should be about rehabilitatiion and not about punishment is in no way linked to what crimes I feel I may be likely to commit.