I share almost all of your sentiments. Prisons and incarceration in general should just be one aspect of bettering society, through reform, work release, parole, community service, therapy. Most people are pretty decent when it comes down to it and when they are given a chance to get better.

Part of me agrees that Breivik should have been executed, but another part of me thinks that would be the easy way out, and he should have to suffer for decades.