Does anyone find it ironic that two news articles appeared on June 8th, 2009 that dealt with prisons, prison life, and judicial sentencing? This demonstrates a huge contrast between different country's sentencing styles and the expectations of prison life.
One was about the possibility of closing San Quentin, but the inmates (including murderers) don't want to leave as they want to maintain their lifestyle of the Shakespearean drama program, football, baseball, basketball, soccer and tennis teams, and the Prison University Project.
The second article was about North Korea sentencing two journalists to twelve years of hard labor for encroaching on North Korean soil for reporting on human trafficking by Kim Jong Il's regime.
Maybe these two articles illustrate some of the differences between rehabilitation and punishment/deterrence.
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