March 2, 2007

Camp Cupcake or Club Fed?

An article from the Financial Post regarding incarceration of federal prisoners includes comments from professor Peter Henning of the Law School. He said a prisoner cannot know for certain which facility he will be assigned to. "You're playing the lottery," he said. Although some federal prisons have been criticized for their laid-back atmosphere, Henning points out that a prisoner's life is regulated and is not dignified. It is also a life filled with manual labor, even for prisoners in what are considered the better camps. "You could be raking sand traps (on a golf course)," he pointed out.

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