Some countries don't have life imprisonment. So the function of them would be to rehabilitate because someday they will be out. Portugal is one such example. So is Norway. One quote I read is "We send murderers and rapists to prison to then be harmed by institutionalized violence (murder and rape factories, aka prisons) and hope that when they come home, they are 'reformed'"
Edit: article about long sentences rethinking long prison sentences
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Some countries don't have life imprisonment. So the function of them would be to rehabilitate because someday they will be out. Portugal is one such example. So is Norway. One quote I read is "We send murderers and rapists to prison to then be harmed by institutionalized violence (murder and rape factories, aka prisons) and hope that when they come home, they are 'reformed'" Edit: article about long sentences rethinking long prison sentences