VT, your links are less than enlightening, imo

The first one is anecdotal, with no documentation.

#2 and #3 are by the same man, and the main discussion pertains to death sentencing; it glides over prison health care, making assertions but giving no particulars and with no documentation.

#4 disputes the Commissioner'z claim that prison health care is better than what prisoners enjoyed 'outside', saying that he had talked with many "white collar inmates" who had had better health care before they went to prison. (Quite possibly these white collar criminals had previously had health insurance. Eb)

The last one is anecdotal and creates more questions than it purports to answer. By the way, what is the "CCR" that her father pleaded guilty to in order to save the writer's sister from being tried? The closest I could come to it was 'Citizen Crime Report'.

By the way, Q, I'm shocked - you mean those hackers were not sentenced to death, as some Mudcatters would have it? I'm just shocked. (Thanks for that research)

I suspect that some of the posters who think that McKinnon's actions were of so little consequence are the same people who think of the creators of internet worms and viruses as being kind of funny and cute. I disagree mightily with that view.