There are a few reasons I’m rahter against prisons. (This is short, it’s late...).
1. They cost taxpayers vast amounts of $.
2. Now there are “for profit” prisons and the owners of the prisons donate money of course to politicians, who then write laws in such a way as to create more prisoners, etc. Prisons should not be run as profit centers.
3. Prisons never rehabilitate prisoners, ever; they just create a foul prison “culture” that seeps out into the world.
4. If a criminal really does want to change his life, it doesn’t help him do so but just takes years away in the compnay of the worst scum.
My way is caning, heavy fines, perhaps prison farms where they must work productively and learn skills, and executions. Caning and executions public.
It will work wonders, when implemented.
I don’t want criminals rehabbed, I want them removed from civilization