That's fair. But you aren't the one I was asking. I get the impression that that wasn't danharaj's alternative.

I don’t see how “Makes you think, doesn't it?” would imply anything more than the comment it was in response to.

I read it as implying that all prisons are inherently inhumane, and therefore that nobody should be in them. But that's one of the problem with drive-by questions like that - you can't tell for sure what their actual point is.

If prisons get too humane shareholders don't make as much profit, that's the real problem.