Yeah, 'ravishing the countryside' would no doubt be the result. /sarc.
The system is ill-designed and dysfunctional - wringing our hands is not really a dignified option. The Government is manufacturing a lumpenproletariat in order to make their 'protective' functions seemingly more essential.
You're either with the people or the state terrorists.
I can see you haven't grown past your modern American college miseducation. You need a little street education. My bet is you couldn't even survive ten minutes with your "proletarian" without catching you "lumpens"!
If you were "with the people" you wouldn't want the violent felons who victimized the "the people" back out on the street.
If society wants to hold prison officials responsible for prisoners brutalizing other prisoners, it better first return control of the prisons to those official!
The system IS "ill-designed and dysfunctional", but lawyers, courts, journalist and social activist have had more to do with creating that system than the prison officials.