Unfortunately the US (no doubt others too) prison is the business of punishment. If you are poor you will get a harsher punishment. If nobody is looking you w

Unfortunately the US (no doubt others too) prison is the business of punishment. If you are poor you will get a harsher punishment. If nobody is looking you will get a harsher cheaper punishment. Working at a prison requires a certain mindset. Empathy is soon weeded out. What's left is brutality. That's the deal society has made, to hide away the hard problem of solving crime at root cause.