Several years ago I lived in a 150 year old farmhouse. We had a modern forced hot air furnace installed in a side building attached to the house. During a power failure an eighteen year old student could not light the ordinary fireplace to keep warm "because there was no kindling". We had paper and cardboard galore, and twenty cords of wood cut and split.There were four axes of varying size and a machete in the shed. Approximately 10% of the wood was Birch with plenty of bark for peeling. There were metal shovels and buckets to carry hot coals from the furnace to the fireplace but the student (wrapped in blankets) could not figure out how to stay warm. The house was just above freezing when my wife and I arrived back home. Thats when I knew Common Sense had died; and that our education system was seriously flawed. As for the inmate issue Whistle Stop, the vast majority of repeat offenders are there by choice; the rest may be salvagable, society does try hard to keep them out in my opinion. Yours, Aye. Dave