Even on a practical level, if you are fine in theory with prisoners leading horrible lives, all international research suggests that better prison conditions lead to less recidivism, so it's not even a good policy from a position of self interest.
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Don't even get me started on the use of solitary confinement (classified by the UN as torture)more extensively and longer than any other developed democracy by a very long way.Research is unequivocal and has been for the decades I've worked in the area about the iniquities of the US penal system.
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