Prison as punishment

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One issue in this country is for-profit prison systems. Which incentivises locking people up. If someone accidentally kills another person, and feels terrible about it, they probably shouldn't be put in a cage for ten years. Get their liscence revoked. Have them pay out money. Make them go to classes to ensure this doesn't happen again.

It should really depend on the crime, and we should only put people in cages when they're deliberately and remorselessly hurting people.

I agree. Morally, this feels wrong to me. It seems like revenge. This guy is most likely already in a guilty hell from which there may be no escape from a long time. I guess this is one thing to consider. If the person apparently doesn't care about what they did and would happily go do it again in five minutes, you have a case for locking them up just based on that.