Incentives matter. If you allow prisons to charge for improved prisoner experience, you make the default prison experience the BATNA for negotiating how much mo

Incentives matter. If you allow prisons to charge for improved prisoner experience, you make the default prison experience the BATNA for negotiating how much money you give the folks running the prison. Like, if you pay ransoms when terrorists take Americans hostage, you're funding kidnap-Americans-and-ransom-them businesses. If you pay prisons for more humane treatment, you're funding imprison-people-and-threaten-them-with-inhumane-conditions businesses. IMO, it should be illegal for prisons to get money from prisoners. There's a bunch of really shitty things that inevitably happen. See: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/31/us/steep-costs-of-inmate-phone-calls-are-under-scrutiny.html https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/31/us/steep-costs-of-inmate-...