Robert C. Koehler: Spare the handcuffs, spoil the child
A tiny piece of news out of Florida the other day poked me, you might say, in the rear end. The nation’s prison population — we’re number one! — expanded slightly, as did the concept of crime itself.
A couple in Daytona Beach, Florida — two police officers — put their 3-year-old son in jail two days in a row, handcuffing him, letting him sit in the cell wailing, because he
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Pooped in his pants.
This was how they were conducting potty training. I kid you not. And it worked, according to Dad, who told a social worker looking into the matter that
