Wondering from where it comes the optimism in this thread for this ban. Ive traveled to more than 40 countries, and lived for some time in 5, all of them with public prison monopolies. In all of them the prison systems turn to be terrible. And by terrible, I mean that the US prisons look like 5 stars hotels compared to them. For reference, I was in most south american and caribbean countries, Spain, Portugal among others.