We think with our chemicals instead of our reason. Feelings make very poor judges. Savages don't think, they react. Few places in the world are as hostile to personal freedom as Pennsyvlania. One would think that in a developed society, the people and their government could tolerate some freedom for the citizens.
Conformity is for ants and religious bigots.
And, in Pennsyvlania, it's also the code of the Ridge Reich. I think that the hormone-driven savages want to kill persons they don't like. Prison is intended to be as close to excecution as possible while still allowing the corpse to breath. After all, a breathing corpse suffers. Of course, the most important reasons for a prisons system nowadays is economics.