Low-level felons crowd California prisons and are now transferred to local jails. My brother in Massachusetts suggests we place felons in stocks and pillories for several hours in the centers of towns before transferring them. Embarrassment, he says, is a greater deterrent to illegal behavior than the threat of incarceration. Do you agree?

— Evelyn Cole – Arroyo Grande

— Evelyn Cole – Arroyo Grande

— Evelyn Cole – Arroyo Grande

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