" Prison is and should be about safety. That’s the logical application. And as such, prisons should contain only those people from whom society needs to be protected. The men and women who match this description are, in fact, a very small fraction of the enormous numbers of people who are incarcerated. The rest of those we imprison? We do so unjustly, and at our own peril. We cultivate hardened criminals out of people who might have been contributing members of our society "

― Christine Montross , Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration