We don't empathize anymore.  Natural affection seems to be lost.  We like according to how the other person makes us feel.  I don't believe for a moment that there can be healing until compassion and mercy, understanding, discerning heart with righteous judgement, until these things are a part of the correctional system.
They can't appeal to our spirit of reprisal.  They have to appeal to our human spirit and they don't know that.  You want to know how to deal with the criminal?  You've got to love us.  If I love someone I have a mind set a lot more to see the other.  It seems like a fairy tale idea though.

Jason Gallant
Inmate, Kent Institution
1995 22"x15"  
watercolour on rag paper
original:  unframed  - $1,400.00
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