"Okay so you lock someone up for life....they spend 25 years eating rat meat and bugs, getting gang raped in the shower, being beaten, robbed, abused and cheated of every day of their lives...."

A prison system like that is a crime in itself. On the eye for an eye basis, the people who are guilty of running a stem like that deserve to enjoy a long spell inside it. But zero tolerance never seems to work that way does it?