I sometimes think of prisons as of wolf-farms. Place where wolves get trained and where they go to rest to come back even stronger. Coursera of criminal world.

There is something theater of the absurd about forcing large numbers of people with criminal tendencies to spend long periods of time together and then releasing them into society.

The line from the movie Blow comes to mind:

Danbury wasn't a prison. It was a crime school. I went in with a Bachelor of Marijuana. Came out with a Doctorate of Cocaine.