if you call locking people up in facilities that we don't control well enough to prevent rape, murder, or drug abuse civilized...and ad in life sentences...is life in a cage that forces you to defend yourself regularly "civilized" ?
facilities where quite often, those assigned to supervise are guilty of abuse, of pimping out prisoners, of coercing inmates into all sorts of things?
that doesn't seem very civilized to me. prison reform is long, long overdue. there is no need to make it pleasant, but there is also no need to make it a place where you can die for an imagined slight...