Prison seldom does anyone any good and very often does them harm.
Its only real purpose is to keep habitual criminals off the streets so that they can't make people's lives a misery. It isn't meant to do the criminals any good. Society has already written them off.
Needless to say, the law being what it is, there are lots of people in prison who shouldn't really be there and lots outside prison who should. Nothing new about that, nor is it ever going to change.
Sometimes criminals mature and become wiser. Some people are more intelligent than others and can rehabilitate themselves. This is laudable and should be rewarded. However, many more relatively innocent young folk who have landed there through misfortune come under bad influences inside and have their lives ruined.
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