Prisons should all be work prisons so the prisoners have a way to earn money while paying for their incarceration even if that’s decades. Only those on death row or disabled should be exempt.
Employers can train and pay prisons for products to be manufactured with the prisoner building an account to be used when they get out with an allotment for personal use while doing their time.
They can learn skills and gain a sense of purpose while understanding the concept of getting paid to do honest work. They can get promotions and better pay as they go along if they are capable.
That’s what true rehabilitation looks like. The prisoner can forego all this and stay in solitary confinement while the others go to work.
prisons should be hell holes to discourage crime and death penalty reinstated everywhere. Stop making crime pay!