[danharaj]

Makes you think, doesn't it?

[AnimalMuppet]

Well, what's your alternative? The death penalty? Release them?

[mikeash]

Make your prisons humane, don’t force-feed anyone, and accept the condemnation that occurs when one of your prisoners decides to starve himself to death anyway.

[AnimalMuppet]

That's fair. But you aren't the one I was asking. I get the impression that that wasn't danharaj's alternative.

[mikeash]

I don’t see how “Makes you think, doesn't it?” would imply anything more than the comment it was in response to.

[AnimalMuppet]

I read it as implying that all prisons are inherently inhumane, and therefore that nobody should be in them. But that's one of the problem with drive-by questions like that - you can't tell for sure what their actual point is.

[roboys]

If prisons get too humane shareholders don't make as much profit, that's the real problem.