The American penal system is horribly broken, unfortunately ... speaking as someone from a country where foreign criminals compare our prisons to hotels. It's designed to make the inmates experience life as they would on the outside, with financial responsibility over their own food (prison credits, for which they can buy food ingredients, cook it themselves or as part of a group meal), jobs and training designed to make them proficient in a real paying job on the outside (the pay for this goes to their prison account to help pay for their stay), and there's access to multiple religious rooms, a library, sports and hobby activities.
The American system is better than some others, but if you treat someone as other than human, they're going to come back out exactly like that, if not worse.
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The American penal system is horribly broken, unfortunately ... speaking as someone from a country where foreign criminals compare our prisons to hotels. It's designed to make the inmates experience life as they would on the outside, with financial responsibility over their own food (prison credits, for which they can buy food ingredients, cook it themselves or as part of a group meal), jobs and training designed to make them proficient in a real paying job on the outside (the pay for this goes to their prison account to help pay for their stay), and there's access to multiple religious rooms, a library, sports and hobby activities.
The American system is better than some others, but if you treat someone as other than human, they're going to come back out exactly like that, if not worse.