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Sadly, they aren’t. They are meant to punish which we all know doesn’t do anything good or helpful.
Sorry that people got caught up in the lie.
At this point, they’re just as much meant to make people money. Kids 4 Cash. Prison labor. The prison industrial complex.
Prisons exist to exploit people and remove their ability to defend themselves against that exploitation. Sanctimonious authoritarians think that they are a better class of person than the incarcerated so they abuse them with violence and negligence.