As a counter to your opening point - it certainly helped me. It made me feel saf...

CrowCrowCrow on June 16, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: I spent 29 years in solitary confinement (2010)

As a counter to your opening point - it certainly helped me. It made me feel safer and I had a sense of justice. Not saying it's the same for everyone or that it's necessarily a good thing but the punishment of the person committing the act helped me to move on.