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Bucky

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Fri Jan-16-09 07:26 PM
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10. Human beings are born to create & adapt tools.

If you warehouse humans, they'll take any scrap or widget you leave around them and turn it into something usuable---normally something to be used in a way that you don't want them to use it.

The only way to cut down on the problem of prisoners converting toothbrushes into tools you don't want them to have is to get them to spend time doing something mentally engaging--which of course dfeafeats most peoples' idea of what prison should be.

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