I know one woman here---sentenced to "life", who regularly goes out on day pass shopping trips.

Out of economic necessity, many states will soon be releasing prisoners and mental patients on to the streets of our cities.

Several years ago, in a state budgetary decision, Asbury Park, NJ, of Bruce Springsteen fame, found itself the unwilling beneficiary of hundreds of mental patients dumped on their famous boardwalk.

The venue for once fun-filled nights of one of America's truly great vacation spots, was tragically, and instantly, transformed into an after dark Night of the Living Dead.

Yes, this happened in Toronto Canada a few years back.