We Never Thought We'd Live To See Gavin Newsom Turning San Quentin Into Norwegian-Style Prison

[Backseat Driver]

4. Judges, I guess, are on board? Don't think I could be

convinced this works better while so many live in such distressing poverty, in abuse, with a lack of access to mental health care in the moment, persecution for admitting to being who they are? So when the criminally insane "get well" and a return to medicated on-going health, the court now accepts their mad sense of guilt and accountability, and are gifted with long-term lives in paid hotel-like prisons? What value of harm in the crime quaifies one to be held in this Norwegian prison accommodations of kindness? Youthfulness, life-time total # of points/charges? damage to individual(s)?, to a community? I don't think you can convince me that evil intent and action does not exist nor can be suitably rehabilitated back into society. Great, now criminals once released, have the freedom to live a life that is unpredictably worse than challenging and far more dangerous than that of a predictable catch-all of kindness!

Rather, the focus is on preparing them for life and to be "good neighbors" once they leave prison? And if or when they fail at that?