> Altercations in prison indicate a type of extreme stupidity and/or violence Your list is incomplete. Altercations also occur when people are stressed. Push m

> Altercations in prison indicate a type of extreme stupidity and/or violence Your list is incomplete. Altercations also occur when people are stressed. Push most people enough, strip away humanity and agency, and they will lash out. > because we were too soft on the offenders Being too hard on prisoners has its own downsides. As this essay demonstrates. The question is, had we treated Adam Morales, Angel Coronado, and the others more softly, would they still have gone on to the commit crimes that lead them back to prison? > we can't let these types of offenses continue There doesn't seem to be much in the way of evidence that the US style of being hard on prisoners has your desired goal of reducing the number of deaths due to drunk driving, as the case of Silvestre Segovia demonstrates. Therefore, it doesn't seem the hard/soft classification is really relevant.