Right to death

[Touchstone]

I doubt that very many people actually get rehabilitated in the prison system.

I agree. And that's a big problem. It's because it is politically very hard to devote taxpayer dollars to rehabilitation when the general public is baying for blood.

But the mob is mindless and the consequences:

Most prisons function effectively as "colleges of crime", and the graduates usually get in touch with each other after they are released.

predictable.