I read the first two paragraphs and unless something changed later in the article, I find this an extremely silly premise. Very obviously a persons family and

I read the first two paragraphs and unless something changed later in the article, I find this an extremely silly premise. Very obviously a persons family and peer group is quite likely to behave somewhat like the person. If this is behavior that leads to prison, then the family and peer group is likely to wind up there as well. The idea that prison is "contagious" is on par with referring to computers as sentient because they are "not acting right".