They’ve certainly seen how poorly a central government can run a society when it has absolute control, and how miserable that society is for it, that’s for sure.
I know inmates who have been there the whole time I’ve been there (1983), and others who came in later who will never get out.
Some of them have a scrap of humanity left, not all, but a remnant.
The first shall be last, and the last shall be first.