> the number of state prisoners that have had 15 or more prior arrests is over 26%
So one reading of this statistic is
"incarcerating people turns them into criminals"
which suggests that maybe the better way is something else than locking people up and giving them a black mark which prevents them ever getting a viable job?
>which suggests that maybe the better way is something else than locking people up and giving them a black mark which prevents them ever getting a viable job?
The fact is that there are a sizeable number of people, for a variety of reasons, who don't have the interest or capacity in holding a viable job. It would be nice if this wasn't the case, but the world exists as it exists, not as we wish it would.
So one reading of this statistic is "incarcerating people turns them into criminals"
which suggests that maybe the better way is something else than locking people up and giving them a black mark which prevents them ever getting a viable job?