Difference Between A Jail And A State Reformatory?

[grampahol]

(01-18-2019, 05:04 PM)bengalfan74 Wrote: I was a corrections officer at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio (SOCF) for nearly 10 years and I can say without any shadow of a doubt it changes you. 

There's no way to describe it in 25 words or less but violence is in your life everyday and it's so very hard to just turn it on and off.

And on the same hand we expect people who have spent 10 years locked up in such an environment to be able to just turn it off once released.
Part of the problem (in my mind anyway) is we've made prison and punishment out of mind, out of sight by putting prisons so far away from population centers which makes it extremely difficult for family and friends (and attorneys) to visit inmates which in turn allows us to keep prison populations to remain ever increasing. 
Not that it'll ever happen, but imagine if every prison build had to be right downtown where everyone was acutely aware of them. We might start thinking of crime and punishment quite differently.  After all it's not AS IF 1000s break out of prison every single day to terrorize the local citizenry.