Jail House Rock

I've always heard that prisoners we're tried very poorly in jails, "as they should be". But after watching a video about a guy who went into jail and made a documentary about modern day American jail systems, my views have slightly changed about how some prisoners should be treated. The documentary was taken inside a drug-incident related jail. All prisoners were either caught drug trafficking or caught under the influence. These drug crimes ranged from marijuana to more extreme cases like heroin. None of these men were murders, rapists, bank robbers, or terrorists. None should have been treated like such, but they were. A lot of Prisoners didn't need jail, they needed rehab or psychological medications or therapy. According to the video, a huge part of  prisoners today have psychological disorders, such as schizophrenia or manic depression. They need help, not the abuse of the guards. These prisoners were not even allowed in daylight, if they were misbehaved they were sent to 72 hours in a small, windowless, boxed room that would make anyone crazy. And since these people are getting jail time instead of rehab, they are more likely, as soon as they finally get out of jail, to come back for the same crime. Society today thinks that if they just throw the "bad guys" away in a locked-up place, that everything will be fine. But it costs A LOT of the tax payers' money to feed and take care of prisoners. Murders and rapists have no excuse and should be jailed, but people who probably have mental issues and bad drug addictions, I think, should be helped and not treated as animals.