People who think that prison is too soft aren't understanding the reality of what prison is.
People don't understand that you aren't just putting someone in a cell, you are sentencing them to be victims of a system that is run on a hierarchy of violence. Take a look at the instances of physical and sexual assault that occurs in prison - as a society that sentences a person to be incarcerated we need to understand what those incarcerated people are going to be put through.
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