I guess the prisons in Japan don't provide gyms, law libraries, and entertainment the way ours do in the U.S. Maybe we should adopt their way of handling criminals.
And save billions of tax dollars in the process. In many states, they are no longer allowed to make license plates. Poor criminals would have to work like most of us do. Couln't have that now could we?
I like the guy in Arizona that houses his inmantes in a tent without AC and makes them eat bologna sandwiches.
I tried that in Vietnam, except that our chow was worse. Hey, if it's good enough for me, it's good enough for criminals.
We should. Really. There was an article on this quite a few years ago. In a Japanese prison, you have ZERO leeway. You obey the guards, period, and keep your mouth shut. No luxuries. And the guards are no allowed to harm you. The result of this "extreme" discipline is that while the US has recidivism rate (rate of prisoners who return to prison) of about 40%, Japan has only 2%. Think about it. Japan has a way of making sure you don't ever want to go to prison again.