<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>enlyth</author><text>I am always amazed at the amount of online discussions where masses of people cheer on about prisoners getting raped in prison, as if that is some logical consequence of getting incarcerated and should be the default punishment in addition to the time done.&lt;p&gt;These people want retribution, not justice. It&amp;#x27;s scary and I don&amp;#x27;t want to live with the same people in society who think it&amp;#x27;s okay to think like this.</text><parent_chain><item><author>falcolas</author><text>This research won&amp;#x27;t matter for prisoners in the US.&lt;p&gt;We (Americans at large) send criminals to prison for punishment, not rehab. It&amp;#x27;s why we care so little about their treatment while in prison. Why we make rape jokes about prisoners. Why we rarely get angry about prisoners dying in prisons.&lt;p&gt;And that&amp;#x27;s when they aren&amp;#x27;t sources of revenue for private companies.&lt;p&gt;Yes, I&amp;#x27;m to angry about this state of affairs to even begin to think it can be changed.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Free prison phone calls boost family ties, rehabilitation</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-07-27/free-calls-restore-inmates-ties-with-the-outside-can-they-reform-californias-prisons-too</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Georgelemental</author><text>&amp;gt; We (Americans at large) send criminals to prison for punishment, not rehab.&lt;p&gt;Mostly, we send them to prison so they are out of the streets and aren&amp;#x27;t committing more crimes. Their fate doesn&amp;#x27;t matter to us beyond that; out of sight, out of mind.</text><parent_chain><item><author>falcolas</author><text>This research won&amp;#x27;t matter for prisoners in the US.&lt;p&gt;We (Americans at large) send criminals to prison for punishment, not rehab. It&amp;#x27;s why we care so little about their treatment while in prison. Why we make rape jokes about prisoners. Why we rarely get angry about prisoners dying in prisons.&lt;p&gt;And that&amp;#x27;s when they aren&amp;#x27;t sources of revenue for private companies.&lt;p&gt;Yes, I&amp;#x27;m to angry about this state of affairs to even begin to think it can be changed.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Free prison phone calls boost family ties, rehabilitation</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-07-27/free-calls-restore-inmates-ties-with-the-outside-can-they-reform-californias-prisons-too</url></story>