Reply #40: I'm not worried about her health at all. I am worried that we have lost sight of the fact

[Greyhound]

that the stated goal of the prison system is rehabilitation, not vengeance. That is why the families of victims have no standing in court unless they were witness to the crime, and even then, they are only allowed to testify as to what they witnessed and are subject to cross-examination by the attorneys for the defense.

There is no element of "getting even" built into the system, it is the dispassionate meting out of what we define as justice. There is no such thing as paying for her crime, that is not the purpose, if it were she would have to spend the rest of her life in the service of the families of her victims. Burglars would have to work for restitution of their victims as would embezzlers and the officers of bankrupt companies, etc.

She took the lives of others and was removed, in this case permanently, from our society. In doing that, we accept the responsibility for the care of that prisoner.

The fact that we tolerate the deplorable lack of national health care here is irrelevant in this case.