There are different people on HN with differing views. I, for one, would never claim that "prisons don't work, don't deter crime, don't rehabilitate" without a

There are different people on HN with differing views. I, for one, would never claim that "prisons don't work, don't deter crime, don't rehabilitate" without any qualifiers. Maybe some specific systems have some problems, but that's a very different thing than "prisons" as a concept.