Any society is an organization of mankind to safeguard and protect its own interest. Prison is no different, except communities elect the police, or a government to keep the peace. Prisoners have their own form of government because the majorities government of the nation has condemned us because of their neglects to poor communities. Each nation has the responsibility to change what they find as a failure, and prison is a failure. Death is a failure.
Death row is a failure, but it has become a breeding ground for revenge.
Here's one thought that every reader should think about and help change. If the entire world took an eye for an eye, as the old saying says, the entire world would eventually be blind from those acts. If the entire world took a life to seek justice, or took a life for revenge, mankind would eventually disappear, or we would live in complete chaos, or exist to die. If we all measure life by the sense of death, then we have no understanding for life at all. Some believe death or punishment means justice.