Yo Readwulf:

Practice makes perfect. The time is right for another try at a private/public patnership but it has to be done with a few changes. First, inmates arre to be treated as regular folks. Second, there has to be a lot of emphasis put on counseling. Third, it must be sold to society as a way of reducing recivitist rates. Fourth, the particpants should be thought of as just that and not crimals or inmates... This is a biggie and is going to have to take some good Pr work....

But this system is very humane and do-able, and economical, and pro-human and, and....

And I'm speaking not completely as an outsider in that I was a jail house teacher in Richmond, Va. fir a few years and have seen first hand what we are doing to folks in jails across America....

Bobert