Reply #133: He lets you know it's an island. And he shows you it's in a rural area. [View All]

The prisoners take a ferry to the mainland to go to work. It's really a weekend retreat, kind of a pastoral work-furlough program as opposed to a prison as we think of one. But the prisoners do have to serve out the time of their sentences, whatever they are. Moore doesn't mention what happens to those people who get sentenced up to the maximum of 21 years. There isn't time in a lifetime to serve that kind of sentence on weekends.

Another thin he doesn't mention is what happens to uncooperative prisoners who run away or refuse to work, or who may become violent. There must be other prisons of a different nature to handle those people. Unfortunately, all he shows us is an interview with a couple of "inmates" who said they wouldn't think of running away.