In a perfect world it’d be great, in the real world you are opening the door to deep and widespread corruption. There will be a huge incentive to arrest, convict and serve very long prison sentences that are hugely out of proportion to the crimes committed, assuming one is even committed.
Given how out of control our legal system and police are already, I’m not sure I’d want to pour gas on the fire.
I think there are more than enough legitimate prisoners to keep it going without having to railroad people.
Like Richard Pryor said, “Thank God we got penitentiaries.”