At that place, the guards were putting known enemies in the same space and letting them fight to the death. The basic issue is how to maintain control in the prison without violating the prisoners rights. Someone should ask about prisoner reform. A person who is injured for doing a crime is less likely to do it again, and plus you aren't killing someone. It's generally a bad idea to play around with the foundation of our country.
Someone ask a riot question.
And our primary mission is to keep other inmates, staff, and the community safe by incarcerating criminals. But once they're in prison, our job is not to continue to punish the inmate, our job is to try to offer programs, whether it's work, school, or whatever, so that the inmate comes out better than he went in. There are some who feel that criminals should be locked up and there should be no leniency and there are others who feel we're too harsh and there shouldn't be so many people behind bars. So we need to find balance. It's hard to say if we're doing a good job at rehabilitation because there's so much recidivism.