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From jails to palaces of gold
Sat Nov 29 21:15:09 PST 2008
You could not make this up. Saturday we toured hell and saw heaven.
Hell was the old jail at Moundsville, WV.
Now closed, this was an obscenity.
Conditions there
were so bad that the State Supreme court ordered it closed,
arguing that the facility was in violation of the Eighth Amendment (which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment).
And 15 minutes away was a slice of Heaven- a Hari Krishna
Palace of Gold (at Limestone, WV).
Absolutely beautiful.
And the moral is? There is much to fear and much to celebrate about being human? People are as good and as bad as we can ever imagine? Dunno- but I'm thinking hard about it.
