The problem remains that we have a prison system that serves to punish, not rehabilitate. If you take a defective part & try to fix its deficiencies, it has a

The problem remains that we have a prison system that serves to punish, not rehabilitate. If you take a defective part & try to fix its deficiencies, it has a better chance of fitting back into the machine it was intended for. If you toss it into a box full of other rusty parts and let it sit neglected for several years, it is more likely to come out rusty & more defective rather than useful. If we were discussing machine parts, no one would ever argue otherwise. If your entire policy is based around putting that part back in the box over and over, then blaming the part for being bad & eventually throwing it away, then you're not being honest about trying to fix the part. A country that is as full of smart people as the US is, that has accomplished as many things as that country has done, and that cannot come up with a system better than what it has, cannot be honestly trying to "fix its parts". I say it is that way because people are not interested in fixing the parts; that they simply want to throw them away. They want punishment, not improvement.