Personally, I think today’s prison system is all wrong. Completely, unequivocally wrong.
Criminals who are killers, rapists, and most often times dangerously violent people, are put into tight quarters with other criminals who are killers, rapists and most often times dangerously violent people. Now add a whole bunch of weights to lift, equipment to exercise with, and large yards for them to workout in. Ration their meals to tiny, portion-controlled, bare-minimum nutrient servings. And if it’s like The Shawshank Redepmtion, have a library and an Andy Dufresne, where prisoners can learn, expand their horizons, and become smarter.
And then after five to ten years of all this, set these motherfuckers free – physically chiseled and hardened, likely smarter, and probably with a whole lot more knowledge from the other prisoners who might have been willing to share their personal knowledge, connections and information. Send guys back out on the streets way more dangerous than when they were first put in prison. What a brilliant legal system.
Fuck all that. If I controlled the world, all of this would be the exact opposite. I guarantee the world would be a safer place.