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There are no absolutes when it comes to criminal punishment. There is always an exception to everything.

That said, I've long thought if you stop treating people like animals, they'll stop acting like it. I've never studied prisons, or psychology, or anything remotely related. But I genuinely believe this philosophy is investigating.

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> There is always an exception to everything.

Unless there is minimum sentencing involved, which became popular in US during War On Drugs. That took a lot of discretion that judges had and turned decisions into absolute black and white type things.

Well there's countries like Norways which make prison look like vacations to people in countries with less resources (except the not going out whenever you please of course)

Foucault argued that the point of prison is to create more crime though.

> Foucault argued that the point of prison is to create more crime though.

Add profits generated by the prison industrial complex and it actually starts making real economic sense to keep them coming back.

Then there are countries like Poland where prisons look better than hospitals, at least in terms of food quality and access to entertainment. Complaining about it is a popular pastime here.

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