Service to Self vs Karma

[xise]

Like, I would tend to think that most prisoners don't specifically view prison as an opportunity to become more nasty, but rather it's the result of the karmic circumstances they are thrown into.  But those few who are self-aware enough to do discover they thrive in such circumstances undoubtedly take steps to keep themselves where they are.

Yeah, the analogy is extremely limited and really operates on the basis of a common trope anyway.  It's just the best analogy I could find to explain what I was thinking.

I always viewed jail/prison, given the vast number of nonviolent drug offenders that get sent there, less of a karmic thing for those nonviolent drug offenders and more of a societal distortion thing, where we actually radicalize and de-integrate drug offenders by incarcerating them instead of treating them.