Letters March 15, 1999 Issue

YOUR LETTERS

"What I love about the new Sentinel is its complete embrace of the world."

with contributions from Alma Chico Green, Anne Jesper, Name withheld, The Editors

What I love about the new Sentinel is its complete embrace of the world—of each one, in every place. Its message is much too big to fit in the purse, typifying divine Love's largess, encompassing us all.

Alma Chico Green
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

In the "Items of Interest" (Feb. 1), the item on "Salvation and redemption in prison" included this statement: "Prisons are for punishment ..." This reminded me of an item I once read in The Christian Science Monitor that made a great impression on me. It was about an enlightened prison governor whose maxim was, "Prisoners are sent to prison as punishment, not for punishment." This answered for me the vexing question of the purpose of prison and of how prison regimes should be focused—on rehabilitation.