White Bear

The American prison system has been under criticism from ex-prisoners, human rights activists, experts in criminal psychology, and the U.S Congress  for failing in the rehabilitation of criminals. The prison system is like a revolving door, with a multitude of obstacles in the outside world for past offenders in terms of job opportunities, places of residence, and even constitutional rights such as voting and the right to bear arms despite having non-violent charges. In White Bear, rehabilitation is completely thrown out of the window as the prisoner has no memory of even committing the crime. Torture and manipulation are marketed as entertainment to form a facility in which a profit is made by allowing the public to inflict and observe harm onto people that deserve it, in this case a woman who recorded and helped kidnap/kill a little girl. Fear and punishment have been discarded as forms of rehabilitation in Swedish prisons. Swedish prisons have college and technical classes at the facilities, concentrating on discipline, learning, and growth for the prisoners to benefit them and society as a whole. It is ultimately cheaper to rehabilitate a prisoner fully with academic and emotional counseling, creating a better person, than having multiple trials for the same repeat offender who ends up spending a majority of his or her life in the system. State and local spending on incarceration has grown three times as much as spending on public education since 1980 ( US Department of Education ), meaning that your community somehow  spends more to inefficiently maintain criminals fed and clothed than the daily education, transportation, technology and food that  all the children between the ages of 5 and 18 receive apart from the teacher and staff salaries. White Bear to me is one of the least likely concepts to be implemented into reality in my opinion, partly because most prisons in America are run by the for-profit private corporations, CCA and GEO group. These two companies are responsible for making the USA the country with the most prisoners IN THE WORLD AND IN ALL OF HISTORY, and second most per capita prisoners. Prisoners are essentially 21st century slaves, manufacturing many retail products and cooking/preparing most of our country's fast food for cents a day. What do you think of this system? Is it actually not that bad considering these people did commit crimes and are essential in the economy of our country due to their cheap, consistent, and forced labor?