The Dispossessed -
The classic tale of two planets torn apart by conflict and mistrust... and the man who risks everything to reunite them.
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Saturday, 27 May 2017
quote [ It is a chilly morning on the ferry to Bastoy, an island prison in Norway. Two burly ferrymen greet a visiting journalist with a hot drink. Asked if they work for a local ferry company, they reply: “No, we are prisoners.” One is serving 14 years for attempted murder. The other, nine years for “drugs and violence”. ]
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sanepride said @ 4:54pm GMT on 27th May
I've long been an advocate of the self-sufficient penal colony concept, and the model certainly has a long, storied history. Biggest problem is we're still so obsessed with punishment and retribution we can't easily look beyond to actually reforming criminal behavior.
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