re: #29 iossarian

The evidence from around the world is that locking up more and more people just fuels the problem. “Let them out” is a bit of an over-simplification - what we need is a sane approach to rehabilitation, and also an abandonment of our current policy of indiscriminately locking up low-income offenders for minor violations of the law.

If we swap allegories so drug addiction is an epidemic instead of a war, a big part of that problem goes away.