Reinforcement vs. punishment: prisoners respond to the way they are treated

Jails and prisons ‘reap what they sow’

Earlier this month, I was suddenly transferred from the relatively progressive environment of the D.C. jail to a Virginia county jail, on the way back to my U.S. penitentiary “warehouse.” I now am forced to readjust to what we call “doing time.” That means, in part, adapting to being repeatedly…