(urth) This Week in Google Alerts: Home Fires

[David Stockhoff]

On 4/12/2012 3:52 PM, Lee Berman wrote:
> David, as I said, I don't know the answer to the supermax problem. What DO you
> do with a prisoner who is a ticking time bomb, inevitably engaged in either
> killing someone in prison or being killed by another? Do you have any ideas?
> All I can think of is more money allocated to make humane conditions even for
> these lost souls.  There must be some way to allow for some limited, safe
> human contact. Even Hannibal Lector needed someone to talk to and have a meal
> with....um...erm..never mind

As long as they get out of their cells daily and have some daily contact 
with humans, confinement under those circumstances is not inhumane. This 
doesn't require unsupervised access to the community.