Faulty Justice Framework

With the episode "White Bear", there was an interesting observation of the way in which average people interact with what is not only deemed socially reprehensible, but what exactly the limits are (if any) when interacting with those who have acted against the institutions or guidelines set in place, namely criminals in this case. Consider the way in which Victoria is quite literally showcased by her "warden-hosts", who take an interestingly complex position as her court-approved sentence for her crime of accessory to torture and murder of a little girl. Whilst by no means should she be free of punishment, but the punishment given to her is especially detailed and personal, every piece of the setting she is forced to inhabit and relive over the course of potentially many weeks is expertly framed to be a hint to her time leading up to her actions. An interesting case was indeed made that the repetitive nature of the punishment is symbolic of the permanency of the family's pain, and the video on the internet as erasable. But who really benefits from her punishment? A further extension of the previous argument was that the parent's certainly would not relish this idolization, maybe even fetishistic nature of the show, of their daughter's torture, sanctioned to appear as a means of punishment.

The question remains though: who is being punished, and to what extent? Victoria's accessory to the atrocity that happened is certainly terrible and unjust, the actions of a horribly corrupt and twisted personality that was fed by the cruel tendencies of her fiance, but the woman engaging in the repeated showings of this "justice park" is by no means the same one who committed those crimes, not mentally anyways. The repeated mind-wiping, which itself is psychological and physical torture through an extreme electric treatment, has long since removed any hope of rehabilitating Victoria to a functional member of society. So the attention the park generates, and thus financial gain, is just that: using her crime as a way to garner a following of citizens who fund an actual cyclical prison system. The justice system has been warped just like the psyche of this woman and her associate, giving no credibility to either the existence of the park, or the continued tortured freedoms of this woman. Perhaps a cell away from the eyes of the public is indeed a more favorable alternate to this reality.