The current prison systems in the US (and the UK to a lesser extent) are insane and counterproductive. It’s hard to imagine how someone would make it through a

The current prison systems in the US (and the UK to a lesser extent) are insane and counterproductive. It’s hard to imagine how someone would make it through a sentence in one of these places without becoming a hardened criminal, a drug addict, or both. Our prisons are factories which churn out career criminals. It has to be stopped. Countless lives are being lost to, or permanently ruined by, ex-prisoners who might otherwise have been rehabilitated into a more normal life, after serving their time. Prison should not be fun. Perhaps it shouldn’t even be comfortable. But we can’t go on with prisons like they are now.