My long standing belief is that prison is a bad concept. I can see that for relatively minor offenses, send the perp a message — disrupt their life with maybe 3 years in prison. Perhaps they will straighten out. But a serious crime? Or a repeat offender? Skip prison, get a rope.
We have 350 million people in this country. That’s a lot. We could afford to get rid of the troublemakers. Totally serious.
Investment scam artists need a special kind of punishment—many years of hard labor in the hot sun or freezing cold.
If they are old and infirm—double duty!