DovidBT:
I omitted the aspect of rehabilitation. That is correct. But I did not include it because it is a fantasy. We would like that to be true and work. But it is the rare exception. For a political opinion, it is noteworthy that prisons employ counselors to perform this miraculous service of reforming and rehabilitating the inmates. Alas, there is a success rate of close to zero. The released prisoner rarely knows how to do anything else except the profession that was mastered before the conviction. Furthermore, little tends to be learned on the inside except how to avoid getting caught. Rehabilitation is a great idea, but it does not exist in reality.