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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nedjer" data-source="post: 5445153" data-attributes="member: 83796">Prisons aren't there to punish or rehabilitate. Prison environments have been shown to add lesions to the areas of the brain controlling higher cognitive function and to reduce the physical size of brain tissues/ regions responsible for controlling emotion and the integration of cognitive functions. As the majority of prisoners already have mental health problems that's basically throwing cans of butane on a fire.If prisoners' parole and early release was linked to equipping them with the skills to become employable and purposeful (not chain gang) physical work, they'd be sitting watching the Open University instead of playing D&D (though D&D has educational merit).Lets say a 3 strikes and out bank robber who didn't injure anyone; down for life at 20 years minimum. OR 8 years of inexpensive distance learning, a general degree or a diploma, and out paying taxes after 10 years.But that would save the taxpayer 300K minimum and victims could see that the prisoner has had to change and work damned hard to cut the sentence.But what would go in the tabloid papers instead, where would politicians go for stirring populist speeches and how would prison companies make profits?Overall, we send people to prison mainly to make money for the companies that, in turn, support our pension funds and investment portfolios. Which essentially makes most of us complicit in torturing the mentally ill for profit <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

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