If I were in charge of creating a new prison system, I'd do mandatory schooling and psychological counseling. I know that's very very expensive, the thinking being here that you'd get recidivism so low that you'd really only have to have small prisons. I'm talking placement tests and actual schooling. Can't read, teach him to read. Community labor, get them attached to people. Get a job placement program.

We could actually work towards reducing crime, but we as a society want punishment too much to allow it.