[coconutt2000]

I don't know why we don't go back to prisons that isolate the prisoners from one another. The great social experiment with rehabilitative has ultimately failed. All we've done is created a system of Criminal Universities across the United States, where small time crooks get sent to learn how to pull big time crimes, and network. The situation also practically lends itself to power games like "rape the newbie".

[marajade]

"I don't know why we don't go back to prisons that isolate the prisoners from one another."

Do you realize how much taxpayer money that would cost?

[PokeyJoe]

I kinda like the idea of giving prisoners a choice.

"You can choose to move to Mexico as a free man, or you can spend the next 25 in jail. Your choice."

Ya know... kinda what the Mexicans do to us.

[Welsh Rabbit]

The great social experiment with rehabilitative has ultimately failed.

I agree. I'm all for isolation broken only by hard labor. Liberals would call my attitude cruel, but I say the real cruelty is the lax, permissive standards they advocate, which allows for rapes and gang violence to be tolerated as the norm.