In any case, I think we’re on the same page about a few things.

You can’t help someone that doesn’t want to be helped. What I do know, is that prison is keeping him out of civilised society. Where he belongs.

Agreed, and I would just point out that we can do a lot more while they’re kept away from civil society. Personally, I appreciate the difference between what prisons are and what I think reform should look like (warning, I may be biased about this [lol]). I’d rather a prison system involve many more mental health professionals, like 2 for every corrections officer. To me, that’s what reform could look like but it doesn’t necessarily have to be that. My intuition just tells me, ask modern psychologists how to make human work better, they specialize in human psychology.

When you try to answer what a person is, you always get a background story. They’re always in a phase of being relative to what they were in the past. So, I think we’re should dilute that experience with some therapy. If they want to sit and pout all day, aka “don’t want help,” so be it. The therapist can be paid via tax dollars, keep her notes and make a recommendation to the judge after time served.

And I get that this is a made up solution… I’m not here suggesting this is what Korea should have done. I’m just pointing out my perspective on why the current practice is wrong. Hopefully one day that will improve.