depending on the person, I think that being forced to relive happier memories, would work as a harsher punishment than constantly living in fear. For example, if a person has some remorse in their soul, for what they've become, then living happier memories would be painful, because they'd be forced to realize what they've become and the fact that they can't go back.
If that makes sense.

This question reminds me of something I once heard about the Swedish prison system. I'm not sure if it pertains to all prisons or just a few, but there are some that are called therapeutic communities. The prisoners live in their own homes or apartments in a gated community. They cook for themselves, and then get up everyday to go to their own individual job within the community. The prisoners work together harmoniously to keep up their own community. I also read that some prisons have field trips where the prisoners do community service outside the prison, in order to keep them connected to the outside world. This prison system seems to be successful in a lot of ways.

Although I believe this form of punishment would be good for some prisoners, those with lesser sentences, I can't imagine Bellatrix Lestrange being treated this way after all she has done without remorse.

I think the punishment aspect of dementors is really important. You have to be the victim of the kind of torment you've caused for others.

I think the dementors feed off the misery, they don't eat happy thoughts.Happiness returns when they leave. I feel like they amplify the sadness, but the happiness is still there under it all. Otherwise, you couldn't summon a patronus or go back to a normal life after being released.

So with that in mind, I think the dementors sense what troubles you the most and that's what they amplify. In the case of someone like Bellatrix who finds great joy in her evil deeds, I imagine her time in Azkaban wasn't spent thinking of the crimes she committed against Muggles or her torturing of the Longbottoms (that was her, right?). I think the dementors put you in your own special hell. So maybe Bellatrix was forced to dwell on the things that were hurtful to her...Voldemort losing power, competing with her sister while growing up (the books don't talk about this, but I'm sure living as sisters there was some deep seated issue there that if amplified could torment her), anytime she wasn't in a position of power, whatever it is that makes her miserable.

I'm not sure what effect amplifying happiness would have on the dementors, but I think it would make turn prison from a place of punishment to a resort. I mean, if dementors did switch, wouldn't you want to take a vacation to a dementor spa and let them melt your troubles away for a week or two.

This whole question reminds me of the movie Monsters, Inc. If they could just learn to tell jokes, the wizarding world and the dementor world could live in harmony. :)

I believe neither the good nor the bad memories should be taken away from the criminals. The purpose of a correctional facility should be to show the criminals why and how their bad actions/ideas/experiences are bad, why and how their good ones are good and how to use their past so as to build a different future. We are our memories and we can't learn without them.

I believe happiness could be used as a successful tool for punishment. Being continually happy could easily become addictive. Take the “reverse dementors” away and the prisoners would start to go through withdraw. These people would effectively become prisoners of their own addiction as well as physically incarcerated. To me, this seems just as morally questionable as using normal dementors. People who are mistakenly placed in Azkaban (thinking of Hagrid here) can easily be released when normal dementors are in place. With reverse dementors, being released might only be a continuation of the punishment. Constant happiness might seem better, but it would leave normal life to look dull and depressing.

Prior to Voldemort's second rise to power, had anyone but Sirius broken out of Azkaban? Well, save Barty Crouch, Jr., which was more like an accounting error on the Dementors' part. When Death Eaters began breaking out of Azkaban, I thought it was because the Dementors' allegiances were being swayed away from the Ministry. So the true nature of the Dementors seems pretty effective at keeping prisoners inside and hopeless. But I do not think that forcing Sirius to relieve happy memories would have prevented his breakout, because he would have still known that he was innocent, and as Sirius said, this thought was neither happy nor sad. Perhaps if the Dementors fed happy thoughts to Barty Crouch, Jr., his mother wouldn't have needed to trade places with him, but that's a pretty specific case.

As others have mentioned, the point of a prison is to punish prisoners, and no one would feel a sense of social justice sending criminals to a place where those criminals would be happy, even if that was a false happiness. Furthermore, what if giving them hope with happy memories had the opposite effect, invigorating them to try to get out and be with their loved ones?

But to change the nature of a Dementor would make the Azkaban arrangement even more of an ethical mess than it already is. The Ministry forcing the Dementors to change their very nature would be no better than a Dementor performing a Kiss on a human. The difference is that the Ministry witches and wizards have the capacity to fight their own impulses.

On the subject of Dementors, how often do you think the Kiss is performed? It always bothered me that wizards, who seemed more enlightened than muggles in many ways, were willing to allow (and sometimes relish) a punishment so much worse than death.

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I think that having Dementors that made everyone happy could cause just as big of a problem as the ones that fed off peoples' negative emotions. I can see people committing crimes just so that they WOULD be sent to Azkaban. I can also see where it would drive people to the point of madness just like having Dementors that fed on their fears. There is such a thing as being too happy as well as being too sad and it would drive people to the point of madness just as well.

advance owl purr: I can't think of the name of it at the top of my head at the moment, but I thought Grindlewald was sent to another prison other than Azkaban.

I amend what I said earlier about wizards being more enlightened. They don't seem to care about race, but that's replaced by the pureblood v. mudblood conflict. Still, dementors seem unusually cruel.

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