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You have divided society into two: the criminal and the innocent. I do not detect an iota of empathy for the criminal in your analysis.

Our imperfect justice system often allocates individuals into "criminal" and "innocent" buckets unfairly. Don't assume that you and those you love are immune.

Prisoners have rights. Prisoners should be treated humanely. Prisoners are human.

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I don't quite see how your comment relates to mine.

I just offered you a scenario where you can exercise compassion and make a lot of money at the same time. But you would have to shoulder responsibility. Would you do it?

What if you were that prisoner?

An impossible scenario? You could never be a criminal, so measuring the outcome need not take into account the prisoner's stake?

If I were the inmate, I would most likely accept "early release" to a would-be reformer. I would happily sleep on the guy's floor to get out of even a minimum security prison.

I see a number of advantages for me. Not least, I have someone who really, really wants me to succeed on the outside.

But you haven't yet told me what you'd do, either as inmate or prospective reformer.

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