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Re:First Maine inmate enrolled in graduate school conducts r... by Davidzheng on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @06:48PM (#22175494)
Agree with your point but is there a reason you used the Unibomber as your example? He was a math professor at Berkeley, surely if anyone in prison can produce good research he probably can...
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Re:First Maine inmate enrolled in graduate school conducts r... by solveit on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @07:05PM (#22175637)
I think the point was that you probably couldn't rehabilitate him by teaching him maths.
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Re:First Maine inmate enrolled in graduate school conducts r... by faceplanted on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @06:16AM (#22179373)
Damn good reason to teach him some philosophy then,
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Re:First Maine inmate enrolled in graduate school conducts r... by bifrost on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @02:22PM (#22184734)
Pretty sure he already has a path there...
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Re:First Maine inmate enrolled in graduate school conducts r... by JCharante on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @09:29AM (#22180827)
I used the Unibomber as an example because, like solveit said, lack of an education or jobs available to him probably wasn't part of the reason why he chose to commit crimes (out of desperation).
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