Well, put it this way..I was a "caged animal" for 13 months, and you would have no issues whatsoever with me around your loved ones, so the logic that the envir

Well, put it this way..I was a "caged animal" for 13 months, and you would have no issues whatsoever with me around your loved ones, so the logic that the environment is making convicts (the preferred way to label "prisoners" who make it to the state prison level) into monsters is flawed, at least in my case and experience. I specifically did not say a "large portion", but a significant one, much larger than 1%. If I remember correctly, approx. 12% of the convicts in the institution I was in (Gulf Correctional Institution[1] in the Florida panhandle) were serving life sentences for murder related convictions. Does society really want convicted murders roaming freely through it? [1] http://www.dc.state.fl.us/facilities/region1/150.html http://www.dc.state.fl.us/facilities/region1/150.html