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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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[Batman] why exactly are criminals continually sent back to Arkham Asylum if it's found to neither be able to adequately keep them from escaping nor actually rehabilitate them?
gpt
It's only been fifteen years in universe, and Gotham is a city where reform happens glacially even when it's for the immediate benefit of non-supervillian citizens. People who are smart enough or physically powerful enough to break out of jail with ease are, in the context of the DCU, a pretty new problem, and sociology hasn't caught up with them completely. Like every other social service in Gotham, they're muddling through.

This, of course, disregards continuities where Arkham's leadership is itself actively evil and pulling strings so that they can use the joint as a supervillian farm, of which there are many.