WTF, can't you read? Jesus Christ, I addressed that in my opening lines. This is what I mean about you fucking guys. You have a narrative and anyone who doesn't completely fall in line with it is the enemy and wrong on all counts. basically I'm agreeing with the premise of helping people first rather than locking them up, but that's not good enough for the lefty. Everyone has to get a pass for life, commit any crimes they like for as long as they like and bail should be a dollar if you're poor. This is why you guys are considered to be fucking nuts.
I'll be honest, I purged most decent points you made as I kept reading the proceeding terrible points in that giant paragraph, so my bad.
Thing is though, as long as there's a profit motive, and these industries can lobby laws into and out of existence, you'll always have them pushing for mass incarceration; innocents and petty criminals be damned.
