It's a common idea that a person being thrown into prison is likely to be victimised by another prisoner: whether it's remand, a local pen, or a federal institution.
Do you think such a state is actually a good thing.
Absolutely not.
Is the Justice System benefited by prisoners abusing each other?
No.
Is it actually a bad thing, and makes our society worse?
Yes.
Problems with "Put him in with Bubba" include:
*It damages the rule of law by making possible additional punishment dependent on other prisoners rather than sentencing.
*It damages the rule of law some more by making that punishment come in forms that the judicial system not only doesn't sanction, but often imposes penalties for if committed elsewhere.
*It takes an absolute crap, so to speak, on the rule of law by creating a largely strength-dependent hierarchy among prisoners, when the legal system is allegedly supposed to make people equal before the law.
Furthermore, and more indirectly, by threatening additional punishment for a crime, possibly worse than the original sentence handed down by the judge or whoever, it creates an unbalanced incentive system for a minor criminal to commit a larger crime to cover up his smaller crime, if the decrease in the risk of discovery compensates for the increased jail time or similar.
I don't see it as a problem. The same things happen out in the real world too. Why pay more consideration to convicts than we do to ordinary citizens?
Are you suggesting that no consideration is paid to preventing victimisation, molesting, etc. of ordinary citiziens?
We should pay X amount of consideration to convicts for the same reason that we don't simply hand down the death penalty for all crimes: punishment is intended to be in some measure proportional to the crime. This means that we should not give the option to victimising prisoners to deal an arbitrary amount of additional punishment to other prisoners.
