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TIL that 3,278 Americans are serving life without parole for non-violent crimes, including petty crimes like shoplifting.
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"I've got an idea on how we can stop crime. You see, we take people who commit crimes and we lock them up completely separately from the rest of society, allow the world to leave them behind technologically and economically, provide no tools for them to better themselves, treat them like dirt, and then throw them back onto the street with no support network."
"What if it doesn't work?"
"Do it for longer."
"What if that still doesn't work?"
"I don't know, just lock them up permanently."
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Using education and integration to bring people back into society. PEople don't just commit crimes for no reason. Crime is the result of a combination of things that can be addressed rationally. Poverty, racism, and ostracization are a few of the many causes of crime. So by giving people the tools to better their economic situation, and by helping them form social networks you can greatly reduce crime and recidivism rates.