This is spot on. Excellent post.You think that the US has so much crime and repeat offenders because prison is a luxury?
The US has no focus on criminal reform... They just have a mentality like you do, make it hell inside so they hate it. Probably why the US prison system is an unmitigated disaster and other developed countries prevent repeat offenders and turn convicts into productive members of society when they get out. Probably won't happen here because the for profit prisons prefer to, you know, make a profit.