Lori Loughlin will serve her prison sentence in a prison near her new home. The prison has many educational programs, including creative skills and job skills.

All prisons should offer such lessons. That is called "rehabilitation" — a concept American prisons used to practice, but forgot about under Reagan's spirit of cruelty.

Lori Loughlin does not need to learn a new trade, but many prisoners do, and it can be the opportunity to change from a life of crime to a life as a good citizen.

Is it silly to teach arts, including music? Some prisoners can make an emotional contact with an art and see that there is something in life other than what you can get for yourself.

What bothers me is not that Ms Loughlin's prison has these things. It is that so many prisons don't.

It would be fair to make wealthy prisoners pay for participating in these programs — but that is dangerous, because it might lead to charging poor prisoners for participating in them. That we must not do!