Er, that's called solitary confinement. It's typically reserved as an extreme form of punishment, considering humans are social animals. Put any prisoner in solitary confinement all the time and they certainly will want to kill themselves. Disagree. With no weapons and superior strength, a prisoner can kill a guard simply by bashing their head into the concrete. Humans are fragile. Sounds like a great idea. Put it on a ballot and I'll vote for it. Until then, with the environment we have, prisoners are dangerous. Laws should consider the reality, not the ideal.Inmates would never interact with each other, or even with guards except remotely.
The human animal is not, biomechanically speaking, that dangerous.
With automation, and sufficient industrialization, a proper prison
I'm not saying solitary, I'm saying they can't interact with others physically. Camera + Monitor behind lexan, let a guard take care of actually starting and ending the call. On the dangers of the human animal, we'd need a shit ton of information to even begin to have a meaningful debate. I'll concede that a determined individual is capable of royally fucking up somebody unprepared to deal with them. Ok, lets immediately release all non-violent offenders, and start locking up real criminals, the ones who kick people out of their homes, and sell their debt. The criminals in white collars. The change that I want to see will require so much other social change that I'm just going to say that a near full-blown revolution will have to occur in order to make it happen.Sounds like a great idea. Put it on a ballot and I'll vote for it. Until then, with the environment we have, prisoners are dangerous. Laws should consider the reality, not the ideal.