American prisons are a disgrace.
I believe we would have less than 20% of the crime we currently suffer from if we were to actually commit to rehabilitation. Instead we put every criminal, even minor offenders into a brutal gladiator environment where young men are sold into sexual slavery just to survive. Many come out after only a few years as violent offenders who hate everyone.
Our juvenile and foster care systems are just as bad.
There have been two accidental deaths locally, in the last couple of years, where the “criminal” got 20 years. One was a guy who shot his best friend on accident and the other was a woman who ran off the road killing her daughter in the car with her. The guy was intoxicated, the woman was not, she was going 17 miles above the speed limit. Twenty years for something that was an tragic accident? The answer to one lost life is not to ruin another.