This is American "justice" culture. We can do anything we want to "bad people" because they are intrinsically "bad". You can tell they're bad because they're in jail. If they were good people, like me, they wouldn't be in jail.
Anyone caught suggesting something is too much punishment is not "tough on crime". They want the bad people to win (so don't vote for them!). Reducing sentence length, improving prison conditions, trying to actually help those on prison, that's all just weakness, that's not being tough on crime.
Who cares that recividism is more expensive than rehabilitation- the point isn't to save money or reduce crime, it's to punish the bad people. I mean, if we stop thinking of them as bad people, how am I supposed to know that I'm a good person?
Anyone caught suggesting something is too much punishment is not "tough on crime". They want the bad people to win (so don't vote for them!). Reducing sentence length, improving prison conditions, trying to actually help those on prison, that's all just weakness, that's not being tough on crime.
Who cares that recividism is more expensive than rehabilitation- the point isn't to save money or reduce crime, it's to punish the bad people. I mean, if we stop thinking of them as bad people, how am I supposed to know that I'm a good person?