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Originally Posted by Rochard
There are some people who cannot be rehabilitated. But when you send the ones that can be rehabilitated to a country club so they can spend the next few years playing tennis and watching TV they don't have to pay for, they won't be rehabilitated. Why bother - It's a great deal; You break the law and get a long vacation.
Prison needs to be nasty, vile, and horrible. It needs to be punishment.
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While I agree that it shouldn't be a club like atmosphere (and for the record most prisons are not. Some minimum security prisons have more activities in most you spend most of your time sitting in your cell) all I can say is this: If you look at countries that treat prisoners like animals, what do most of them have in common? They are third world shitholes that you wouldn't want to live in. I don't think the two are mutually exclusive.
If the goal is to rehabilitate people and hope they can reenter society in a positive way, you can't treat them like savages and then expect them to be good citizens.