Answer:
With this phrase Kluger means that the model so well elaborated of some types of prisons promote the mental breakdown of prisoners, that instead of being re-socialized and reinserted in society, they are "made worse" psychologically.
Explanation:
This phrase was said by Kluger when she was demonstrating how prisons called supermaxes work, which are prisons with the highest security standards in the country, where people who have committed very serious crimes are placed and who must be traveled more strongly. Kluger recognizes the need to keep these people in a type of highly qualified control as the supermaxes present, but he questions the capacity of this type of prison to promote the re-socialization of these prisoners.
This is because the objective of keeping a criminal in prison is to remove him from society, where he is a danger, and re-educate him, re-establish him, so that he can act in society again, as a beneficial and advantageous member.
However, supermaxes promote the mental exhaustion of the criminals and the imbalance of their psychological stability, allowing us to question whether the standard of excellence they present is not promoting a disadvantage in society and a result contrary to the criminal.
