The only difference between ubiquitous surveillance cameras, and someone pointing one at you, is getting to see the person who is going to later masturbate to the footage.

what they need is HBO and Showtime.

your idea of prison is slightly warped. it is not a place to punish criminals--it's a place to separate them from society until they cool down.

for punishment, i would much rather take 10 years of torture and daily lashings than 10 years in a solitary confinement space as you described. the simple stimulation of the whip would keep my brain from atrophying and turning me into a lunatic. which, btw, cannot be undone. are you sure those are the type of people you want back on the streets after their sentence?

even keepers of lower primates, in zoos or as pets for example, are federally mandated to provide a strict schedule of mental and physical stimulation in the forms of learning/exercise and entertainment/play. regardless of what a criminal has done, they share the same mental and physical attributes and must be granted sustenance for both. see the geneva convention.

back on topic. while i am extremely edgy about the whole FCC-imposing-digital-upgrades every February for the past 3 years in order to cash in on 13 billion dollars of new licensing fees, i do see this as an eventual win for places like schools and prisons that are barely capable of tuning into 3 channels with rabbit ears and aluminum foil.