Saturday, April 3, 2010

Just a Thought - Monastic Prisons

Prisons are also called "Correctional Facilities." I don't know what or how prisons operate to "Correct" people in prison. But I've thought about Monasteries, and how long ago, they were places of prayer for people who saw themselves as truly broken Spiritually, but realized that the only way they could save their own soul, and do penance for their sins was to live a life of completely monastic solace.

I wonder if instead of Godless prisons, there were an order started that was truly a "Correctional Facility" that focused on the soul of the prisoners, and imposed on them monastic rules based on the extreme orders of old.

Just a thought.

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