Far fetched ideas for - improving the prison system - any of it worth reading?

It makes sense and you did throw out some good ideas. Most of the people in the prison system are in need of therapy for mental illnesses and anger issues. These people do need to be taught self control and how to be productive citizens, but they have bigger problems that need to be dealt with. They need to quit grouping people in for drug charges with murders and they need to prevention programs to keep people out of prison in the first place. Unfortunately if you go to prison you shouldn't have the same rights as everyone else. It is an incentive not to be sent there to begin with.