We need to stop obsessing about rehabilitation of criminals and bragging about "oh this nordic country has low recidivism rates" and start returning to our baseline ethics. The baseline ethics as I would describe is "you hurt someone, your should get hurt" not because it has anything to do with lower crime rates, but because it is justice.
Lets face the facts, a life sentence might not be considered ruining someone's life, if the conditions are excessively humane. Some examples are Germany prisons. Their conditions are good enough that a few who have become eligible for parole decline. This is insane. We need to stop thinking about
Some insane examples of "cushy" jails. http://articles.sandhira.com/top-10-...he-world.html#
THIS is how prison should be http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/a