My friends and I were chatting about the crime situation in our country when the discussion turned to the pubishment of prisoners. Somebody commented that one of the reasons why crime was not subsiding was that prison time was no longer a deterrent. He complained that prisoners had too many rights; that prisoners were doing better than the average law-abiding citizen in that they had three meals per day and had a roof over their heads, rent free. Somebody else added that prisoners watched soa...