Prison involves the loss of liberty. That's a pretty severe thing to happen , however humane the conditions.

And if what we are shown about prisons is accurate, humane is not on fact the word, a lot of the time.

That seems to be especially the case, among wealthy countries, of prisons in the USA. I was reading an article about Guantanamo Bay, and the author said that many features of this which seem grotesque and horrific are in fact fairly standard in high security jails in the States.

I hope that is not in fact true.