Is Justice really being served?

In class, this week, we watched a short film in which a woman is being punished for a terrible crime she assisted in committing. While one would think that the punishment would simply be being put in a prison, her punishment was something entirely different. She was placed in a fictional correctional facility, White Bear. It was here that she was tortured. This torture was conducted to instill the same sense of fear that the little six year old girl felt when she was kidnapped, rapped, assaulted, and later murdered by the fiancé  of the woman while the woman herself videotaped the whole thing. The people felt that they were serving justice by torturing this woman. But is justice really being served when for most of the time the torture is being performed the woman can not recall why she is there? They erase her memory at the end of everyday, shortly after telling her who she is and why she is  there, making her endure the same thing day after day. I can understand that by doing it this way they are making her go through everything the little girl went through when she was first kidnapped and had no idea where she was. But is justice being served when you are punishing someone who committed a violent and horrendous crime in a violent manner? Does that make the people any better than she or even the fiancé were? I really don't think that it does. I'm not saying that what she did do was not something awful. I agree with the fact that what she did was down right wrong and terrible. However, I do not think that by torturing her in a similar manner will make the crime she committed any better or make it go away. What she did will always remain. And by torturing her, just to make her feel what the little girl felt would not make us as people any better. We are basically stooping down to her level, because in a way we are doing the same thing she did, just not to a little girl but a grown adult. It won't bring the little girl back to her family or erase her last moments. However, the reaction of the people may leave a lasting effect on the future of the justice system. What happens when the little kids watching the torture of this woman because they are told justice is being served think that the only way to right any wrong in the world is simply by violence? Are we then saying it is okay to fight violence with violence? Therefore, I would say I do not agree with the answer this fictional correctional facility came up with when attempting to serve justice for such a horrendous crime. I would simply say stay to the old method and send her to prison and let them dwell on the reason why she is there. But at the end of the day is it really up to us to decide how to best punish individuals for crimes. What makes us capable of even doing that?