I agree with a lot of what you said here. I think our prisons in America have a destructive culture, but our society also shuns convicts preventing them in some cases from participating in a meaningful way after the time is served. Scarcity is the unequal distribution of baseline resources and is highly variable depending on the cost of living. It is, simply put an animal that doesn’t have enough to eat, or provide sustainable resources to its offspring. At the core human are animals, and no starving animal acts according to established behavioral patterns, or even in predictable ways. As an added liability, humans can experience scarcity as a perception as well which complicates the methods used to combat the effects. It’s a complex issue, I would encourage you to research prisons in Norway and how the prisoners live while serving time. It’s no wonder the system works better than the one in the US.