Yes, of course.  Prison is to punish.  At least that is what I am told.

For being poor, for having mental illness, for having acquired brain injury, for having previously been a victim.  But most of all for being black.  Indigenous males are 50 times more likely to be in jail than whites, while indigenous females are 25 times more likely.

And there is scant evidence that Prisons work.  Yet we continue to build more and more.