If the child was good, why would he/she be subjected to the System in the first place?
Nobody is saying that his childhood was good. I have no idea what his childhood was like. However, many people have spent time in the federal system for non-violent crimes and get victimized by very violent men and end up becoming violent themselves just to survive.
That’s the problem I have. Unless you have committed an act of violence, or the equivalent of violence, like a Madeoff ripoff, you shouldn’t be subject to the Dante’s inferno that we call the American prison system.
An eye for an eye was about proportional retribution, not maximal punishment.