Why do all these prisons look so drab an dreary?
cherpenbeck
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No matter if they are medieval or modern or futuristic, all prisons I found so far on DAZ are looking ... non inviting. Very American, not so much European. And besides the small fact that modern prisons can look a lot more like a home for the inmates (at least some do in my part of the world), future prisons should show some developement, I think. Like re-socializing the inmates as fast as possible. Because, if the future does the same as the prisons on this site do today, just punishing, it's a very, very dystopic future.
Yes, I get it, dystopic futures are a lot more interesting to tell, but don't you think that there should be a future as well where mankind developes and gets a better understanding of it's own thinking and acting? A future where the bad guys really can be re-socialized?
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prsion should be inviting ? there are different thoughts on the purpose of prison, i honestly think that prison should be for punishment - i watched a program where a ladys 9yo was murdered and found out the killer was up for parole a couple decades later and discovered her little boys killer had a wife and a daughter that was her son's age when he was murdered - how would you feel ?
Western European prison cells look just like dorm rooms. There are many boys' dorm sets available, that could easily be used as a utopian future prison.
BTW, in some countries (*coughcoughnorwaycoughcough*) mass murderers and child rapists have better living conditions than senior citizens who've paid taxes all their lives. Do not respond to this. I just needed to vent.
Prisons should reflect the brains of the offender. Or as W.S. Gilbert (of Gilbert & Sullivan fame) put it "Let the Punishment Fit the Crime".
Traditional version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip6czeTuNEU
Here's an updated version of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GcKaSwCRN0
Traditional Lyrics:
My object all sublime
I shall achieve in time -
To let the punishment fit the crime -
The punishment fit the crime;
And make each prisoner pent
Unwillingly represent
A source of innocent merriment!
Of innocent merriment!
All prosy dull society sinners,
Who chatter and bleat and bore,
Are sent to hear sermons
From mystical Germans
Who preach from ten till four.
The amateur tenor, whose vocal villainies
All desire to shirk,
Shall, during off-hours,
Exhibit his powers
To Madame Tussaud's waxwork.
The lady who dyes a chemical yellow
Or stains her grey hair puce,
Or pinches her figure,
Is blacked like a nigger
With permanent walnut juice.
The idiot who, in railway carriages,
Scribbles on window-panes,
We only suffer
To ride on a buffer
In Parliamentary trains.
My object all sublime
I shall achieve in time -
To let the punishment fit the crime -
The punishment fit the crime;
And make each prisoner pent
Unwillingly represent
A source of innocent merriment!
Of innocent merriment!
His object all sublime
He will achieve in time -
To let the punishment fit the crime -
The punishment fit the crime;
And make each prisoner pent
Unwillingly represent
A source of innocent merriment!
Of innocent merriment!
Mikado:
The advertising quack who wearies
With tales of countless cures,
His teeth, I've enacted,
Shall all be extracted
By terrified amateurs.
The music-hall singer attends a series
Of masses and fugues and "ops"
By Bach, interwoven
With Spohr and Beethoven,
At classical Monday Pops.
The billiard sharp who any one catches,
His doom's extremely hard -
He's made to dwell -
In a dungeon cell
On a spot that's always barred.
And there he plays extravagant matches
In fitless finger-stalls
On a cloth untrue
With a twisted cue
And elliptical billiard balls!
My object all sublime
I shall achieve in time -
To let the punishment fit the crime -
The punishment fit the crime;
And make each prisoner pent
Unwillingly represent
A source of innocent merriment!
Of innocent merriment!
His object all sublime
He will achieve in time -
To let the punishment fit the crime -
The punishment fit the crime;
And make each prisoner pent
Unwillingly represent
A source of innocent merriment!
Of innocent merriment!
If your aim is rehabilitation then reflecting the brain of the offender prior to the process is rather counterproductive to it. The American system does not aim to rehabilitate.
The most important thing, is that they don't re-offend.
Give victims a choice: You can either stop them re-offending, or you can punish them; you can't have both.
The issue to my mind though, is that some can't be rehabilitated. Some don't believe that.
OT: yeh they look miserable. Why? Ask Daz, ask the PAs that create them.
Wishful thinking?
This is a subject that skirts dangerously close to the TOS prohibition against
political commentary.
I personally think the OP could easily do some "kitbashing" to make his
"less dreary" prison
I personally think incarceration should be a disliked experience that
would make a person very determined to avoid returning.
Sadly the opposite is true in many instances.
I have personally witnessed many ,many conversations between Felony ex-convicts
that sounded more like a heart warming, nostalgic reverie between frat house alumni reminiscing(sp?)
about the "good old days"back on "campus".
One ex-con literally pined about how good the french toast was
that they used to serve for breakfast at a certain penitentiary.
Incredible!!
Prisons are places you lock people up. It doesn't need to be a priosn ran by a government at all or with any purpose other than to lock people away.
Could be a bad guy who has his own prison lair for superheros. Could be a good guy locks up werewolves there during the full moon.
There is no one intpretation or use for objects in the store, and if you want to make a prison less dreary, you can add additional props.
Yeah thinking flowers and...umh...teddy bears:D
maybe the very modern cells like the movies with the clear doors
You want to lock up flowers and teddy bears!
This thread is being banged up without parole since it is clearly going to repeatedly reoffend by veering into politics.