If I were in a CA prison like this, I'd never want to leave

This from San Francisco Chronicle:

"Aerobics and yoga classes, workout rooms and open-air courtyards were just a few of the amenities recommended for California's hospitalized felons in a draft report for the court-appointed receiver tasked with overhauling the state's prison health care system...

...The recommendations called on the cash-starved state to spend $8 billion on seven new hospitals - each roughly the size of 10 Wal-Mart stores...

The report also suggested that the new prison hospitals include:

• Workout rooms to "promote wellness," featuring exercise machines and space for "therapeutic activities such as aerobics, yoga, (and) group exercise." Plus handball courts.
• Outdoor courtyards "where patients will be encouraged to participate in recreational therapy programs such as horticulture."
• Gymnasiums with a basketball court and a music room, a crafts room, game room and therapy kitchen.
• Outdoor running tracks.

The report also said there should be day rooms for patients featuring a "quiet room for reading and study, as well as a separate room for group TV watching." Each should include "a liberal use of sound attenuation materials and be designed to maximize natural light to create a normative environment," the document said.
The report also recommended plenty of landscaping along the perimeters of the lockups to hide the fences and electronic surveillance systems.

The overall idea is to create something that doesn't resemble a prison, the document said - hence, designers should "explore a unique blend of hospital, community college and residential scales as a basis for the site plans."

I don't call this a hospital. I call this a spa. And if I lived like this, I'd never want to leave. We will have people committing crimes to get this lavish treatment.

A hospital is there to treat injury and illness. Not to cater to people. When they get out of prison, then they can enjoy the luxuries that the rest of us get to have IF WE PAY FOR IT. Now, I will grant... give them an area to run in. A simple track can be built. And a general purpose room can be used for basketball, yoga, etc (Hey, our kids have to deal with it, why can't prisoners?). BUT LANDSCAPING TO HIDE THE FENCES? NO! I WANT THEM TO REMEMBER WHERE THEY ARE AND WHY THEY ARE THERE! The federally appointed receiver is clearly not thinking here.