> I’d hope you’re wrong, but have no reason to think so, because I’d like to believe that the kind of prison you’re sent to is related to how much of a risk you are to others.

I think in theory escape risk is a part of it, too, and people with extremely long sentences are presumed to have rather more motivation to escape.

I guess that makes sense, although on a personal level, I’d rather serve time in a minimum security prison and get it over with than escape, inevitably get caught, and have additional time in a worse place.

I don't know, in principal I'd rather go and live in south america on a modest income (assuming you have carefully sequestered some investments) for the rest of my life than spend 20+ in prison which is effectively the rest of my life anyway.

Alright, fair point.

Do you mean 'how crudely and unintelligently you harm others'? It sounds like you're setting up a framework where you get sent to the mean prison if you're physically bullying people, and the more intelligently you deliver your harm the better treatment you get, perhaps up to a point where if you're smart enough you can harm people on an enormous scale and get, I don't know, praise for it instead of prison.

Elizabeth seems the sort of person most capable of executing a plan whereby she pulls off a prison break through enlisting the aid of a bunch of other prisoners who're promised freedom themselves, but in her plan are actually there as decoys to be killed. It seems analogous to stuff she's already happily done. She is potentially a risk even to other prisoners if she carries on as she has done. I don't buy that she's not a risk to others.

Well, that’s certainly one way to interpret it. Another way is that the point of prison is to separate someone from society, not to put them in physical harm. If an accountant embezzles from his employer, he should do time, but maybe surrounded by other accountants and not armed robbers.

I’m not talking about just Holmes here, but about prisons in general. It’s not supposed to be fun, but neither is it meant to support a collective revenge fantasy.

Two years later...article about Holmes beating up someone in prison.