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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why don't prisons actually try to make people better?
gpt
Because fixing people is *haaaaaard* and really expensive.  And it's incredibly difficult to convince middle-class folks that spending metric fucktons of money on a bunch of low-life criminals benefits them.

Seriously, just look at how many people bitch and complain about prisoners having access to television and playing cards.  A huge chunk of the population believes that Prison isn't for rehabilitation and redemption, but punishment and vengeance.  And asking them to fork over more tax dollars to better prisons (especially when you watch various documentaries and television shows of varying levels of exploration that show prisoners assaulting guards and destroying prison property - things tax dollars paid for) is going to result in the politician asking for it not winning the next election.