One concern I've had to add to my thinking: That non-incarcerated people also have access to these things. Nature, and all the rest. And simply time to seek them out and take advantage of them.

We shouldn't get to the point, where incarceration is the means by which such things become accessible.

Making sure they're accessible, outside of incarceration, might help to prevent incarceration in the first place.

I'm all for rehabilitation. Just, it should start before things come to law-breaking. In other words, focus on quality of life as a primary "deterrent".

Quality of environment seems a fundamental part of that.

I’d want our education system to be modeled after these ideas as well.

Ironically, many schools look and function a lot like prisons.

It’s been said the way a society treats it’s prisoners is a bellweather of its health.

Perhaps by bringing cutting edge practices to prison we can lift the entire society.