Sentences assigned for crimes across the US are not proportionate to the seriousness of the crime or the associated violence, injury and risk to the victims.
Sentencing guidelines obviously developed as a hodgepodge not via a top down, rational process.
Making sentencing more equitable would punish the most serious crimes very severely in an effortt to deter crime and remove threats to the population.
Some sentences are ridiculously light ex. for rape, torture, negligent homicide, especially DUI. Others seem excessive when additional fines and restitution would do more to make the victim whole.
Sometimes it seems that theft of $ is punished more severely than murder, rape or torture even of children unless committed by a favored group, such as Somali.
Fed 84 law 87 instituting guidelines are tough
States are crazy
In my home state you used to be able to get out in like 3 for murder
A few states now require half or two thirds
But like u said I don’t know how to fix that
I think we have a larger percentage of incarcerated of any non authoritarian country
Mostly drug laws and minority crime I think
Take out minority crime and we’re somewhere tween Switzerland and Singapore
Crazy