[Pyramid*]

Originally Posted by Jack_

But as someone on The Guardian comments quite rightly pointed out, you go to prison as punishment, not for punishment.

Being stripped of your liberties and freedom should be enough 'punishment', and then the focus should move to rehabilitation. Many of the inmates in the article comment on how they don't enjoy being in prison, and miss their families, so clearly it's still not a place where they want to be, and I have to say despite how nice it looks, it's not a place I'd want to be either. The balance seems right to me.

Freedom of liberties, missing their families.

They should have considered all that before they decided do break the law.

Do you feel sorry for people who horrifically abuse children, you feel sorry for those who destroy other people's lives, who punch the daylights out of OAPs leaving them living in fear for the rest of their lives, for the drug pushers that cause untold hell on earth for many (those they supply to and those even that they don't) because they lose 'some' freedom in some things? That is part of the punishment - it's the way the cookie crumbles.

Nope, not one ounce of pity here Jack, it's not as though the idea of getting caught and banged up is a new concept.