> The emphasis on retribution over rehabilitation is a serious problem in modern society.
This is by design. That type of incarceration leads to more recidivism. We have a for-profit prison industry that wields a lot of political clout. When those driving policy have a financial interest increasing the number of prisoners, policies like mandatory minimums, voting suppression, the war on drugs and the traumatizing experience that you observed look less like problems and more like conscious decisions designed to increase profits.
This is by design. That type of incarceration leads to more recidivism. We have a for-profit prison industry that wields a lot of political clout. When those driving policy have a financial interest increasing the number of prisoners, policies like mandatory minimums, voting suppression, the war on drugs and the traumatizing experience that you observed look less like problems and more like conscious decisions designed to increase profits.