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I'd like to underline that the impersonal nature of imprisonment (as opposed, particularly, to the torture-by-vicitm scenario) is a partof the message..it signals that a crime is a crime against society...

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" Yet our society considers it barbaric for a criminal justice system to deliberately torture criminals in ways that may well impose less physical and emotional costs than rape does.

How about climbing *up* the slippery slope, by no longer tolerating prison rape?

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