Nice, Garland. Not bad.

Tent City has a great affect in lowering crime rates in its area, I've read about it and seen things about it. It's a real prison--no comfy living conditions, strict rules and schedules, healthy but basic food, required work... It's what prisons were made to me. And it works rather well.

"all men have the capability to be good it's just a matter of bringing that out not punishing the bad."

There are two ways to "bring out the good". One is to train, spoil, coddle, and show love and respect to the person. That's not what prison is for. The other, more effective way, is to find the bad and supress it. Just like a dog--you can train a dog to sit by giving it food and playing with it when it obeys you, or you can train it by smacking it when it doesn't. Either way, it'll learn. And don't try the "well they'll just become more rebellious and violent" line, because if that's the case, they need to be punished more. If you smack a dog on the nose because it disobeys you, and it tries to take your hand off, do you give it a treat, or smack it again?

False convictions are not nearly as common as some people think they are. And nobody's saying that we should beat the hell out of prisoners all the time and take away their human rights. There's a long way to go from real punishment to infringing upon human civil rights. Even so, would YOU have a problem with spending six months in jail if it meant the guy in the next block wouldn't get out and rape and kill another person?