When enough of "society" is rotting behind bars for breaking any number of the new laws being put on the books by cynical politicians every day, then maybe things will change.
There are 2 million+ people in jail in America today (25% of the prisoners in the entire world) -- how many more will it take until we wake the hell up? We're supposed to be the "land of the free", not the land of a latter-day Gulag Archipelago.
Do you really believe that number?