It is true that the amenities can and often times be used as a form of control to help keep prisoners in line from any acts of misbehavior, much like in using the analogy of the carrot and the stick. This means that the amenities or luxuries that are available be it television, exercise equipment, visitation rights and so on to prisoners should constitute a privilege and not a right and to maintain these privileges are the sole responsibility of the prisoners an their behavior. In reality this way of thinking is either positive or negative reinforcement depending on perspective however its validity should not be dismissed outright if one were to consider all the benefits that the prison amenity programs provide, from prisoner health to the
