"Superfluous vengeance"? And all this time I thought it was called justice.
I have news for you. We have a major recidivism problem in this country and regardless of how pleasurable you wish the criminals stay in prison to be, the FEAR of going back is the single most likely thing to keep them from repeat offenses.
Shortsighted.
So, the recidivism rate is due to prison conditions not being bad enough?
riiiiiiigggght!