"Now you know why there is so little violent crime (like robberies, rape) in China and very low rates of repeat criminal activity. This was only a boot camp for children, imagine what Chinese jail is like. No one who survives jail in China wants to go back and so they stop their criminal behavior.
I'm in favor of Chinese style prisons where prisoners are told they are a scourge to society and they should take it as a blessing if they are allowed to rejoin society (that is survive). There aren't any TVs, books, or entertainment. Prisoners have to work and also have to write an essay every day (at least in the past for political prisoners) on why they were wrong to do what they did and how they are reformed now. The then go into a room where a several people hear the prisoner recite his essay. The "rehabilitators" then shout at the prisoner accusing him of BS and insincerity. He is then led back to his cell and told to think about what was shouted and write another essay tomorrow, this time with sincerity.
The thing is that this actually works. When a person is forced to write and "pretend" to believe in something (what he did was wrong), eventually he WILL believe it given enough time. We should force our prisoners to write daily essays too."
they call it being institutionalized, usually by the time you get out of school your sufficiently institutionalized to be a good hard working sheep making all your owners rich. sometimes it doesnt work out so well and you need to be re-institutionalized.
china's system is more effective, i agree.