While I agree that there needs to be consequences to breaking the law, simply applying punitive judgment, without taking all aspects of the crime, and perhaps what brought the individual to commit it in the first place, leads to warehousing many more citizens than need be. 

 Also one undeniable fact of our industrial corrections apparatus, is to simply provide an education for many up and coming young offenders, turning them into better and more successful predators of society in the future.