Firstly, why do people commit crimes? Secondly, are the laws being broken necessary to protect the public as a whole? Thirdly, how is it determined which incarcerated individuals can be expected to re-integrate into society and which are not? Fourthly, how do we determine whether prison is the appropriate solution to a given infraction? The current system has resulted in the largest prison population of non-political prisoners in the world. It is obviously broken and is creating a subclass of individuals that will be chased by the stigma of prison, deserved or not.
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