Governor Richardson Prison Analysis

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An eye for an eye! I disagree with Governor Richardson’s assessment that prison is a living death sentence. In today’s prison system, prisoners are on death row for many years, those prisoners are given three meals a day, sleep on a bed and show emotional feelings such as sadness and even happiness. If an offender takes the life of an innocent person intentionally without remorse or with no consideration of the life of another individual, should that individual be allowed to live a life to speak with their loved ones with letters, phones calls or even visits? In addition, prisoners on death row have the right to marry while serving their time on death row. In the U.S. prison system, the prisoners have the right to communicate with loved

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