Some Tunisians believe that a country struggling with unemployment and political upheaval would be better off run by technocrats rather than veteran prisoners lacking real-world experience.
It is a political game used to mask the realities of a penitentiary system that is replete of prisoners, lacking the most basic hygienic conditions, and suffering from systematic hunger, as well as physical and psychological torture.
Moreover, it is non-trivial to implement this censoring in jurisdictions which lack unique prisoner numbers (for example: England and Wales).
In June, a court filing by the American Civil Liberties Union detailed black mold, vermin infestations, filthy mattresses and prisoners who, lacking working toilets, were forced to defecate in plastic bags.
After three days of meetings he called it a "cheerleading operation" and accused Ms Suu Kyi, a Nobel prizewinner and former political prisoner, of lacking moral courage.
In his first major speech on prison policy in July, the justice secretary said prisoners lacked the right incentives to learn and there was little pressure on staff to prioritise education.
The prison inspection report on its first nine months of operation, published on Tuesday, found the frequency of assaults was too high and prisoners lacked confidence in the inexperienced staff to deal with and protect them from violence and delinquency.
But I don't want to give the impression that all prisoners lack hope.
Ray added that resources for those sorts of programs have been cut drastically and that prisoners lack a chance to get rehabilitated.
In 2004, the court case Rasul v. Bush established that detainees had the right to challenge their detentions; however, most prisoners lacked lawyers or means to even contact them.
"But we would do that, sit them down, talk it out, and sometimes get them into programmes that would help change their thought process". Ray added that resources for those sorts of programmes have been cut drastically and that prisoners lack a chance to get rehabilitated.
