I disagree, life imprisonment is only cruel if your system is designed for cruelty. There are people that are genuinely a threat to society to the point they have no hope of being integrated. Prisons in the common understanding of it aught to be abolished but that does not mean there won't be some form of exception.
I point to the Swedish incarceration system as a decent starting point where criminals who's mental illnesses are so severe and untreatable are kept in well furnished rooms with common amenities that anyone would have. They aren't treated as beasts or monsters but as people who's conditions renders them unable to be part of society through no fault of their own.
Much like how it's dependent upon who controls the State determines for who's benefit the state acts for, the same method must be applied to all aspects of society - the incarceration system included.
I disagree, life imprisonment is only cruel if your system is designed for cruelty. There are people that are genuinely a threat to society to the point they have no hope of being integrated. Prisons in the common understanding of it aught to be abolished but that does not mean there won't be some form of exception.
I point to the Swedish incarceration system as a decent starting point where criminals who's mental illnesses are so severe and untreatable are kept in well furnished rooms with common amenities that anyone would have. They aren't treated as beasts or monsters but as people who's conditions renders them unable to be part of society through no fault of their own.
Much like how it's dependent upon who controls the State determines for who's benefit the state acts for, the same method must be applied to all aspects of society - the incarceration system included.