But bear in mind that most prisoners are incarcerated for non-violent offenses -- a notion that should impact anyone's idea of the "bad" prisoner.
And yet, sometimes things get so bad that prisoners feel compelled to protest, with work stoppages, riots or hunger strikes.
Any other reaction to today's ruling may serve short-term political ends, but it will also probably do significant harm to the rule of law, which would be bad for prisoners, the public and even politicians too.
Penal reformers, as well as the government's chief prison inspector, were opposed, arguing that big prisons in other countries have proved ungovernable and bad at getting prisoners back on the straight and narrow.
"And, of course, the prejudice towards people in prison is not very nice to deal with – society dumps all its bad feelings on prisoners.
"Especially they wanted to show me the bad side: 'The prisoners did this.
Good guards, on the shifts when the worst abuses occurred, never did anything bad to the prisoners, but not once over the whole week did they confront the other guards and say, "What are you doing?
It seems like you are saying that, at one level, Saudi Arabia needs a reformer who will crack some heads together, and that, at another level, human-rights violations are really bad and political prisoners should be freed.
Zimbardo hypothesized that certain traits of prison guards or prisoners caused their bad behavior (i.e. "Bad Apples").
To throw good money after bad in calling prisoner issues medical mental health failures, is jsut ducking where the problem caem from.
