| Yeah, the rec facilities bug me too, but it's for good reason. It keeps the fights down. On the one hand, I can say "so? Let the scum fight it out" but I also know that not everyone in jail/prison is in for violent offences and fewer fights keep the guards safer, and makes education/rehabilitation at least distantly possible. If a prisoner spends 24 hrs/day for X years in a kill-be-killed environment, that's how they'll be when they come out.
That being said, I think there has to be some element of deterent. 3 hots and a cot doesn't deter people down-and out and HBO and a rec center will appeal to a few more.
Anal rape is enough of a deterent for me though... |