This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA-NC Let me say at the outset, I do think people convicted of violent crimes should be kept away from the public, at least until such time as their problems have been resolved to the point that they no longer pose a risk to society. In the USA, for which we have up -to -date and detailed figures , this accounts for around one quarter of the prison population of 2,200,000 including those on pretrial in 2022, though I suspect armed robberies and homicides would be lower in countries with stricter gun controls. This leaves a large number of people who would be better off - and society would be better off, if they were kept out of prison. As the number of prisoners increases globally - 10.35 million at last count and the cost of keeping them in prison increases disproportionately, we do need to think of better ways of dealing with most other offences. Keeping people in prison is not only hugely expensive and compoun...
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