Rioting prisoners
Sir, —Would Margaret Moir get off her soapbox for just one minute, to consider now she would like to eat, sleep, and perform bodily functions in a small room and to share this room with another person? Would she, at the end of a working day, like to wash or bathe in washrooms (no doubt antiquated) . provided for approximately half the number of persons, then be locked in a cell, to sleep in a sheetless bed, and have no recreation of any kind, year after year? No, of course she wouldn’t because she isn’t a criminal, except that she shows a criminal lack of compassion. I agree the prisoners are there as a punitive measure, but to' state they have no right to the ordinary decencies of life and to suggest they should be turned into vegetables during the period of their sentence is carrying her condemnation of the malefactors too far.—Yours, etc., HUMANIST. March 28, 1971.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32567, 29 March 1971, Page 14
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