The US has a incarceration rate similar to Stalin’s Soviet Union at the height of the Gulag.
1/2 of our prisioners are locked up for non-crimes.
Are you saying we have political prisoners? What exactly are you saying about non crimes?
How about the death penalty for capital crimes?
Much of the problem goes away right there.
Clearly, we need a better system than the current incarceration program. The very best kind of program could be developed by religious institutions. Piercing to the heart of a life is fundamental to change. Religion is best able to accomplish this.
I assume you are talking about drugs as non-crimes. That’s a whole ‘nother thread.