Cockmaster posted:

I've always thought that if you're more concerned with your own emotional desire for retribution than with having society work to spare others whatever harm has been done to you, you are dangerously close to becoming the monster you seek to destroy. One might make a valid case for making prison undesirable enough that would be criminals aren't just writing it off as an occupational hazard, but there's absolutely no excuse for making it so brutal as to leave people more messed up than when they came in.