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- Harboggles, on 07/02/2008, -1/+27Good. Prisoners are so mistreated (I'm a Criminology minor) they need more things to do besides shank each other and do drugs. We create the prison environment. Look at Norways prisons and then compare them to ours. Ours are inhuman and degrading. Stop putting non violent offenders in the same place as violent ones. If you do you create a culture of violence and they just get worse when released.
- dalnet22, on 07/02/2008, -2/+16I don't know if their time is necessarily free.
- hokie47, on 07/02/2008, -2/+16It's always better to be the pitcher and not the catcher in prison.
I am just saying if you had to pick one. - ElTomacco, on 07/02/2008, -0/+11Actually a lot of prisons are kept running by corporations and private companies who pay the prisons to use their inmates for cheep labor. So I'd say they're the ones slaving for their food and baseball field.
- mderrick15, on 07/02/2008, -1/+12Anyone else smell a movie? The Longest Base?
- hakkola, on 07/02/2008, -1/+11Billy the rapist finally got to second base, and walked!
- inactive, on 07/02/2008, -2/+10I would love to watch prison league sports on ESPN.
Announcer-" Heres Chewy Hernandez up to the plate. He's currently serving 15 years for murder, and he's batting .300" - GarrettB, on 07/02/2008, -0/+8He dick, why don't you read the damn article before you blabber out acting like a savior. Everything is donated by people and by the San Francisco Giants, good job ***** tard. I would rather support this rather than the war in Iraq, so ***** you.
- kpmoore, on 07/02/2008, -1/+8I'd hate to be the pitcher that hits the convicted felon with a stray curveball.
- jgubbe, on 07/01/2008, -2/+9Gives "Home Run" a whole new meaning!
- lordtyros, on 07/02/2008, -15/+21***** that. I slave at work 50 hours a week so these ***** can eat for free and play games?
- Jexie, on 07/02/2008, -0/+6You want inmates to be released back to society less likely to commit another crime? or keep them in the criminal universities that prisons have become? Control your emotions a bit and look for results instead of the 'just punish em' attitude that's been failing America for decades already (and is more expensive too).
- kd420, on 07/02/2008, -0/+6You can always murder someone or something if you think they have it good.
- wex98x, on 07/02/2008, -0/+5Exactly. Prison is supposed to take away a person's freedom within society, not their basic human rights. Inmates need more positive experiences like this in ways that facilitate integration back into society rather than worsening people's psychological health when they get out.
- DoctorGumbo, on 07/02/2008, -0/+5If Barry Bonds ever gets busted for perjury, he'll feel right at home...He'll still be a Giant.
- swern425, on 07/02/2008, -1/+5Ya know, all drug dealers aren't your friendly neighborhood hippies just looking to get pot legalized? Some are actually pretty scummy people who do much worse than just sell drugs.
- ndiderrich, on 07/02/2008, -0/+4until you drop the soap in the showers and then your running game is over.
- inactive, on 07/02/2008, -0/+3I'd be afraid of someone trying to steal a base.
- DreKor, on 07/02/2008, -2/+5No... no batter... no batter...
/Arrested Development - superflydugg, on 07/02/2008, -1/+3johnny cash would approve.
- twiztidsinz, on 07/02/2008, -0/+2San Quentin Inmates with baseball bats..... AWESOME!
- masterm1nd, on 07/02/2008, -0/+2I wouldn't be so quick to say one.
- inactive, on 07/03/2008, -0/+2Anyway there's been no proven correlation between harsh prisons and a safer society for the rest of us. Actually, all harsh prisons have really been shown to do is educate criminals to be better criminals and breed ultra-violent gangs like the Aryan Nation, which eventually become problems outside of the prison system. I know it feels good to say prisoners should be treated like utter crap... but in practice that sort of a policy increases crime rather than decreases it.
- masterm1nd, on 07/02/2008, -0/+2until you get recruited by boston or new york.
- Jexie, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1I wasn't referring to killing them or keeping them. I was referring to throwing them in a complete violence infested *****-hole only to be released and commit more crimes vs. trying to actually rehabilitate as many as we can.
- inactive, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1Uhh then why is it called the "Department of Corrections" and not the "Department of Punishment"? If you really think prisons should do nothing to rehabilitate criminals, that's a pretty silly philosophy. Guy goes to prison for 5 years, comes out the exact same... that's not good for society if we're actually trying for that effect.
- gwhardyiv, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1Please.
Y'all need to come down here and see what REAL rehabilitation looks like:
http://www.angolarodeo.com/ - Barackalypse, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1If you want real despair look at the damage those guys caused to innocent third parties. Sympathy is wasted on those who chose to do wrong and hurt others.
- iatebabies, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1burt reynolds ftw!!
http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/wp-content/uplo ... - kmattso, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1Next time the wife complains about playing too many sports....Whack!
- barkleydoom, on 07/05/2008, -0/+1Cuban little league next to refineries. :}
http://digg.com/baseball/Little_League_Beisbol_Hav ... - inactive, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1Believe it or not people have committed murders because they were tired of working and thought jail would be cushy. I recall some guy who shot a mail man solely because he thought it would be his ticket to spending the rest of his life in a "country club" federal prison.
I don't think it really works out that way but who knows. I've been to a maximum-security prison in Kentucky and it wasn't the hell on earth the California ones are shown to be on TV. At the one I went to they basically isolate the highly violent criminals and gang members, and the rest are pretty peaceful, if bored... their big activity is caring for this huge colony of cats that live in the prison yard. - gettarat, on 11/16/2008, -0/+1I'd hate to be the pitcher that hits the convicted felon with a stray curveball.
http://jewelrydiamondrings.org/ - tnoy, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1Something about giving a bunch of people in prison a baseball bat might be inviting a problem...
Then again, they're probably all just in there for having some pot on them. - Iztikeit, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1Prison isn't there to punish people like little kids. It's to remove them from society.
- pauliusuza, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1Cell Run!
- mizatt, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1I hear they lead the league in stolen bases
- Iztikeit, on 07/02/2008, -0/+0I don't think these guys want to lose the right to leave prison for a few hours a week.
- briLo, on 07/02/2008, -0/+0Jimmy: So whadda ya in for??
Pauly: Hit and Run.
Jimmy: No *****, youz good at it?? We'z got us a baseball team in here, seeings how youz is experienced......you can probably play. - nepidae, on 07/02/2008, -0/+0San Quentin, you've been livin' hell to me.
- minorthreat, on 07/02/2008, -1/+1there's only one thing I'd rather give than take.
- digiguy, on 07/02/2008, -0/+0Are those kids playing baseball in the picture? Bad idea..lol
- freedom998, on 07/02/2008, -0/+0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWgSNCETA7E
- inactive, on 07/03/2008, -0/+0You can't compare our ANYTHING to Norway. Apples and oranges my friend.
- Barackalypse, on 07/02/2008, -1/+1Thats great, except the point of prison isn't rehabilitation, its punishment for crimes committed. Playing baseball isn't a punishment, although watching it might be.
- inactive, on 07/03/2008, -0/+0No, it's just one of the Mexicans.
- dannythepan, on 07/25/2008, -0/+0the baseball game would be my greystone chapel in prison. funny how they give bats to these guys with nothing to loose and have them compete against strangers in a game that tends to rile people up. . i ''m glad it all works out lol.
- zoethebitch, on 07/02/2008, -0/+0Fun and games, until you get to the second-to-the-last paragraph (quote from one of their not-in-prison opponents):
"I also felt profound despair because we were able to walk away, and some of those guys will never leave."
Whoa..... - AdamHenry, on 07/02/2008, -1/+1And who is going to pay for this?
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