Friday, May 27, 2005

Prisoners' property rights

Do prisons enforce the property rights of their prisoners? I assume they do, but what would happen if they didn't? If prisoners' personal possessions were kept in unlocked deposit boxes in communal areas, they could hardly complain when items disappeared. Rather than empathising with the victims of crime, they would be the victims of crime! Would this rehabilitate them more successfully than current schemes?

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