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> Prison has to be scary.

No it doesn't. The problem with chest-thumping-ego-driven-bullshit like this is that it is very fact-adverse and causes more problems than it solves. Your type of prison is nothing more than a gang training camp.

Start here:

https://www.google.com/search?q=rehabilitation+vs+punishment...

And don't stop until about page 200ish.



For an example of a not so or at least less scary prison: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&...

TLDR version: "the punishment is being locked up; we do not add to the suffering."

Google translate is decent at times, funny at other times (the vulture entering the scene is a translation of the prison director's surname), and woefully incorrect at others ("e.g. The IBT'ers still put their helmets on and not ask first what's going on" should be "don't put their helmets on but ask first what's going on"), but I think the message comes across.

Two things to add:

1) the "for life system" (rightfully, IMO) is under scrutiny from the EU because, effectively, nobody ever is pardoned.

2) there are stronger regimes in some prisons.


Are you referring to a particular article or 200 pages of search results?




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