By: Ed Keller
In any decent society (such as all of Europe's developed nations)
a miscreant, even a murderer, would be entitled to reasonable
and decent treatment. No place in the civilized world would a
person be required to spend his whole life in prison. Only America
is as cruel as a savage Third World nation. Pennsylvania is among
the most cruel places in America. Liechtenstein is a civilized
democracy by comparison.
In Pennsylvania there are two death sentences, death by a cruel execution (no civilized places kills its own people) and death by old-age (no civilized places do that either). In decent, cultures, a prisoner, even a murderer is released after a few years of imprisonment. No European country imprisons its citizens for more than 20 years. Russia doesn't keep prisoners for life. America is different, Pennsylvania is different, much more vindictive, much more savage, much less civilized. In Pennsylvania a life sentence is really a death sentence. It's endless, hopeless years of torment. It's cruel. It's the American way. Malcolm Kysor committed a murder back in the mid 1980s. He shouldn't have done it. There's no question that murder is a great wrong. Punishing the killer, however, doesn't bring back the slain person. Pennsylvania sentenced Malcolm Kysor to life imprisonment. That means that Pennsylvania ordered the execution of Mister Kysor by old age. After about 20 years of imprisonment, about the time that any reasonable society would wring from its worst prisoners, Mister Kysor escaped. He apparently fled from the Albion state prison near Erie in far Northwestern Pennsylvania. Reports from the Pennsylvania Department of Imprisonment (which should NEVER be accepted at face value - they lie as official policy) indicate that the lifer may have gotten out to Albion in a trash can. It sounds like a 1930s movie. He may have been helped by a heroic humanitarian named John Gromer, we can't say for sure. The poor devil, he'll really be tormented for years and years. Such cruelty is the Pennsylvania way, the American way. It seems that the geniuses at Albion have a video recording of the Mister Kysor climbing into the trash can and "shuffling off to Buffalo," as they say. None of the guards seemed to be paying much attention, or maybe they just figured that a prisoner is a piece of trash. Eventually someone figured out that the lifer wasn't around. It's a crime to escape from a Pennsylvania prison even where such an escape is both reasonable and understandable. If Mister Kysor gets a week of freedom, it's a week he wouldn't have had otherwise. Hopefully they won't kill him when they catch-up with him. We urge the change of Pennsylvania law. It doesn't hurt to be a civilized and decent society. Because some savage individual stoops to murder doesn't mean that we collectively, as a society may also be savage.
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