JeramieH

I couldn't imagine being confined to one building for so much of the day

Like a house?

When you watch a movie like Shawshank Redemption, do you see massive differences in technique, approach, equipment, culture, mentality etc that seem ancient to you now? Or have things not really changed that much?

It gets easier as you stay there longer and the offenders get to know how you act.

How do you know they aren't just cultivating a false sense of security in you? "Guard treats me fair, I treat him fair, I shank him in the back"?

But that's just your personal opinion, which is no more true or accurate than any other religious belief from the past several thousand years. You have personally decided that Religion #231 to be your belief system, and that's fine. But you have no rational basis to convince a believer in Religion #371 that they should believe in your chosen religion instead, just because you choose to believe it.

That'd be like me showing up on your doorstep to convince you that chartreuse is the best favorite color, because I've decided it's my favorite color, and I think it should be everybody's favorite color. I don't care what your favorite color already is, I'm just here to convince you to changw to my favorite color because I'm right (I can feel it)

But that's still the overall purpose of the endeavor, yes? Convince people that their current opinion is wrong and that your opinion is obviously more correct?