I kind of don’t support either side here

men need to be strong, that’s ok, they just don’t need to use that violence to harm others aggressively unprovoked, but sometimes may need to use it to defend themselves or others, so the prisoners rightly understand this to some extent

the “philosophy” therefore sounds like brainwashing given how it’s phrased that “macho” culture is somehow in itself “toxic” or “damaging”

so the prisoner side is open to committing violent crime but the teacher side sounds like a kind of passivity that can not be useful for defending against legitimate threats (like aggressive fellow inmates that a prisoner may encounter?)