On The Box: Words of Comfort: Prison Sympathy.: "I recently spoke to a 16 year-old who insisted that if a man raped a woman and slit her throat, he wasn’t "bad." She didn’t agree with his actions, but there was a reason he did what he did, and that should be taken into account. When I asked her if Hitler was "bad" in killing six million Jews, she said that he wasn’t. She didn’t agree with what he did and she even sympathized with him because something had obviously caused him to act in the way he did. Predictably, she believed that people go to prison to be rehabilitated rather than to be punished for their crimes. This is because they weren’t bad. They were in prison because they had gone off the rails, and so they needed sympathy."
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