The purpose of a penitentiary…

The purpose of a penitentiary… 2014-12-29T01:47:14-07:00

…used to be, as the name says, penance.  That’s when we had something of a Christian view of the human person.  Now, in our new, improved culture, our badly broken prison system is simply a place of mindless cruelty.

That is, when it is not part of a monstrously evil scheme for jailing kids for fun and profit.


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