I hardly think so.
While they enjoy luxuries such as television/books ect, there's still the fact that they're couped up with the worst society has rejected. If they happen to be targeted for abuse, all they can do is wait for it to happen. There's no show, book or website that is going give sufficient release for that kind of lifestyle.
Us good folk are in most cases blind to the fortunes we have. So much in fact that we start to compare prisons, facilities specialized keeping people captured like animals so that the rest of us don't have to deal with them, and make us the negative outcome in that comparison. When we want to leave, we can just go ahead and do it. Perhaps we might have a hard time finding our way and coping financially, but it can be done.
There are people that get into jails merely because of petty crimes, and because they weren't understood, and therefore not helped - a feeling many here should be familiar with. It might begin with stealing a few apples- and end in multiple murders, just because he/she was forced to live in a place (for a extended time) in which the social construct is less then humane, instead of being helped, like he/she should've been. Not to mention it's not unheard of of innocent people getting thrown in jail due a kink in the law, they get the exact same chances.
In matter of fact, I'd rather see it turning into a better place then it is now. Not in luxuries, but in general. Separate the people whom made a mistake, for the actual deranged lunatics. And giving those people an actual chance to redeem themselves. Staffing the prisons duly that they can actually control the mentality, rather then just containing the bodies.
They're not born as criminals, yet that's how many seem to treat them. Waste that doesn't belong in our paradise. It just rubs me the wrong way to see how people see prisoners are deranged serial killers while some of them are in there for far less severe crimes. It's like we're still in the darned Middle Ages.
Anyway, off topic rant over now.
