How do you see prisons?

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Do you think a prison is a place that exists in order to punish delinquents or in order to protect the society from the danger they represent? Do you think that the state and the civil society should make efforts in order to rehabilitate that men, to kindly help them make peace with the law? Or do you rather think, like Foucault in "Discipline and punish" that this kind of approach just brainwash people and try to trap also their soul, not only their body? Do you think that the state should pay for comfort in prisons (with the argument that the lack of it will just worsen the character of the delinquents and will not help them at all to reinstate in the society after they become free - consequence being that they will violate the law again)? Or that the state should not pay anything for people who made a damage to the order of the state, and they should work for all their benefits, like food, building and all they receive there? What kind of policy do you think is the best in this area? Do you personally feel you should do something about, like volunteering?