Originally Posted by jamesrage

Prisons should be about punishment,that is the purpose of prisons.However the scariest thing about prisons today is becoming some inmate's girlfriend or getting stabbed to death not the loss of freedom and things you enjoyed in the free world.Because today inmates can get a free education,a sex change paid for by tax payers in some states,three meals a day,play video games,lift weights, watch tv and many other things that law abiding citizens get to enjoy.The scum behind bars these days live better than free people in third world nations.Sending someone to prison today is the equivalent of sending a child to his room as a punishment when that child a computer,video games,tv, telephone and all his toys.Why would a inmate have motivation to correct his behavior when he practically has all the same things in prison that he does in the free world?