This used to be the "solution", except all it did was act as a gladiator academy that turned out more hardened criminals after 5 years. Do that every year and every year you are just working a machine to create crime.

Turns out that just putting people in jail doesn't make society safer.

Turns out patting people on the back and tearfully nodding to the stories about their sad youth doesn’t make society safer either. Ultimately life just isn’t fair and people do need to be induced to take responsibility for themselves.

prisons should traumatize/give PTSD to "serious" criminals (like mandatory isolation, i'm not advocating for free torture from guards), enough to create a pavlovian like reaction at just the toughts of committing crimes. Rehabilitating marginalized prisoners with trainings and social programs after the punishment is a must

so, we should be living the movie A Clockwork Orange?

no, but some "lost causes" understand only violence, fear and shame if anything, religion served most of that purpouse, but that isnt effective nowadays. This strict treatments should be reserved to violent, higly recidive, antisocial, worst of the worst criminals, as a way to not have them treating the punishment of prison as a "gladiatior academy". 41bis like treatments in Italy could be a starter.

Letting the criminals roam free with impunity makes society less safe

Just give violent criminals exponentially increasing sentences for each conviction. Then they'll only get a handful of chances to reoffend in their lifetime

I'd be fine with this.

To be honest I don't understand the laws but in my city there is a dude who has done this literally 90 times

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