Outlaw, you are misinterpreting my responses to other people's questions/comments.

What I said about children, was in response to someone else saying that the parents of the prisoner should be punished because it is obviously their own fault for raising them poorly. This cannot apply to children. I was bringing up an example of a situation that does not fit the line of thinking that everyone who knows, and may choose to visit, a prisoner is some how responsible for them being there.

Go ahead and just ignore my comments about punishment turning into an industry as well. You completely missed what I meant by that, and again, that is an entirely different topic for a different thread. I don't know that it applies here, but I have a feeling that it does to some extent. Applies to prisoners in general, not this particular thread topic.