That's not quite where I was going with this discussion. We have a rather disgusting prison system, in which people are in a various forms of lockup for a mult

That's not quite where I was going with this discussion. We have a rather disgusting prison system, in which people are in a various forms of lockup for a multitude of crimes. Many of these prisons are for-profit corporations, which seek to lengthen prisoners' stay for added profit. How do we go from what we have now to an ideal prison system? Because of our countries' governance model, even free peoples have problems getting any sort of assistance. Many of these people have been in jail/prison for years and have no clue how to survive. We're not even covering the fact that in this country, a person imprisoned for a drug crime has all state and federal aid taken away from them. Thus ensuring that crime is almost the only route to live.