>America's jails are places where people got to get abused rather than get rehabilitated, so what is the big deal about some people paying for a better environment?
Because the general ideal for justice is punishment to be based on guilt, not ability to pay for a lessening of guilt.
And allowing some to pay for not going there may be seen as furthering the problem, by making influental people less likely to suffer the same consequences and inspire prisons to treat "second class" inmates worse to increase the motivation to buy an upgrade to "first class"
Because the general ideal for justice is punishment to be based on guilt, not ability to pay for a lessening of guilt.
And allowing some to pay for not going there may be seen as furthering the problem, by making influental people less likely to suffer the same consequences and inspire prisons to treat "second class" inmates worse to increase the motivation to buy an upgrade to "first class"