What's the most absurd way the prison system in the USA operates?

It releases hardened criminals due to overpopulation by less violent offenses.

Not my prison design - a pit 500 feet down 500 feet square - no guards just buildings and cots - I would have steel bars going from one side to the other and 1 foot off the ground to keep prisoners from fighting or trying any escape maneuvers. They would have food send down and a water supply. And drainage when it rains.

As a profit center. The fact that there's financial incentive built into the system to incarcerate as many people as possible is frightening.

The fact that if you have money and/or connections you most likely won’t serve time.. if you don’t you will.. then you’re just caught up in the system forever

They let people out before their sentence is done. Parole should be abolished and sentences much more severe.

When they dont have their own hospital equivalent infermory or nursing home, inmates go to public ones.

It would be their own city - they fuck it up then too bad. They repair it.

Keeps criminals safe when they often didn't show the same to their victims