[Buddha-l] Re: Buddhist social deconstruction

[jkirk]

 > 337 Once you have analysed the angry
> Murderers and recognised them well,
> You should banish them without
> Killing or tormenting them.
>
> -- 
> Metta
> Mike Austin
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Banishment is no longer a viable choice as it might have been in ancient 
times with smaller populations and kingdoms-----even deporting people (a 
version of banishment) can't be enforced today----they just come back.
The really dangerous criminals today should be locked up for life, but I 
agree with Jim that they should not be put in solitary......that's cruel 
(if common rather than unusual) punishment. It does not have a chance of any 
shade of reformation.  The fact that much of US prisons are farmed out on 
private contracts suggests that inside supervision of the 'custodies' is 
probably not adequate, according to any concept of sila anyway. (But then, 
maybe it never was?)
Joanna