It&#x27;s just one darned thing after another, innit? Fundamental attribution error for all! The FAE is like a drug.<p>Our entire approach to prison has been like this since the Quakers invented it.<p>Someone once pointed out to me that our University system was &quot;hijacked&quot; by, of all people, the Unitarians in the early 19th century ( when Harvard ousted the Congregationalists&#x2F;Puritans&#x2F;Calvinists and replaced them largely with Unitarians ). These are long-term , nearly sectarian conflicts.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thenewamerican.com&#x2F;reviews&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;item&#x2F;10759-how-harvard-went-from-calvinism-to-unitarianism" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thenewamerican.com&#x2F;reviews&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;item&#x2F;10759-how...</a><p>&quot;Unitarianism is not a revealed religion. It is a social movement based on the notion that man is basically good and morally perfectible, and that all that is needed to achieve this moral and social utopia is a good secular education. And that is why the Unitarians became the major force in the public school movement.&quot;<p>Now, perhaps I am taking my dose of FAE here :), but that sure looks like the shape things are in. I&#x27;m also quite aware it&#x27;s not clear where the Quakers fit in; but the basic initial design for prison did initiate with them - for humanitarian reasons.