Prison environments are very difficult to manage, and having worked for 12 years in a male maximum security prison, I had many opportunities to understand fully how important it is to allow inmates to be physically active and occupy idle time in a positive way. Inmates who are watching TV or working out in a weight room are far less likely to be involved in negative behavior. Although the public perceives those activities as coddling, prison administrators and correctional officers understand how important they are to institution management. Our next question comes from Geomandel and is a follow up to the earlier question about job training and educational opportunity. You can't generalize.
Inmates are people.
Some of them sincerely appreciate the opportunities we provide, and others see it as a way to pass time, or please the parol board. It's difficult to know what motivates inmates. Another question from Edelmaus for Warden Roberta Richman. I am against the death penalty. I don't believe it serves as a deterrent, and am grateful that we don't have it in Rhode Island.