text: That assumption is: "Given the possibilities which the State now has for effectively preventing crime by rendering one who has committed an offense incapable of doing harm."
  
  What evidence does the Church have/show for making that statement?  None!  That is why they have never presented any.  This is a new teaching based solely on an assumption, and one that could only be applied to high tech, advanced nations like the U.S.  So it is not an absolute "moral" position that can be applied everywhere in the Catholic world.
  
  Evidence exist that assumption is wrong.  This comes from a "three-year, $5 million, local, state and federal investigation" of the newest, high tech prison in CA which resulted in 12 men and 1 women indicted on federal charges of murder, robbery, conspiracy and drug running." "Federal prosecutors say...hundreds of murders have been orchestrated from inside maximum-security prisons, by inmates who have nothing to lose and nothing but time" on their hands.
  
  Point 2 next.