We have met Mr. Colson here before, and, no, he has not changed his views about, as he puts it, the insanity of taking non-violent offenders and "separate[ing] them out from society, break[ing] them away from their families, stop[ping] them from being the breadwinners." But this show offers a particularly rich exposition, not least because Mr. Colson had just visited a prison in Brazil that truly rehabilitates, sending out people with a recidivism rate of about 4 per cent. The catch: it's explicitly Christian. CC: "Jack Eckerd, a wonderful philanthropist, spent half a million dollars to explore the feasibility of doing it here and concluded, because of the ACLU and separation of church and state, that we would never be able to do it." WFB: "You mean they might fall in love with God instead of with Mammon, and we wouldn't want to run that risk?" CC: "Well, we might offend someone by suggesting that there is such a thing as truth or Christian values that can transform a person's life. That would be offensive in today's tolerant society."
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