Posted by Sigismund on April 17, 2009, at 19:35:43
In reply to Having fun in SF » SLS, posted by Deneb on April 17, 2009, at 18:47:22
>I and two other Babblers will go on a 5 and a half hour tour of Alcatraz and Angel Island.
Good idea. That's what I'd do.
Port Arthur was the penal colony in Tasmania. It's really beautiful with sandstone buildings, reformitories, punishment cells. You can sit in the isolation cells (which I did) where they kept people for 6 months in the dark with food and water provided and waste taken away. No light. It was a humanitarian improvement on what went on before, so they say, and people came out much more cooperative, like with ECT. All these young people, mostly men, dead at the age of 26.
I read that at Alcatraz they kept them well fed and underexercised to make the swim difficult.
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