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Most prisoners don't have unlimited access to tv either. The prisons which allow tvs in cells tend to be the ones with the life/long sentence prisoners. Given that they have had their freedom removed, possibly for several decades, it's considered that that is sufficient punishment without making it deliberately harsh. It also helps discipline in prisons if prisoners can gain such perks through good behaviour and have them removed for bad behaviour. Without such a system of perks and incentives all that is open to prisons is to impose ever harsher penalties on prisoners for misbehaviour. Eventually prisoners riot, or require such intensive and violent guarding as to render the system inhumane.
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