> but in doing so you become directly, personally responsible for the fact that there are now 3 people in a cell meant for one I've not met anyone who is again

> but in doing so you become directly, personally responsible for the fact that there are now 3 people in a cell meant for one I've not met anyone who is against prison construction that is not also against long sentences and against sentences for trivial crap. It's the state's half-arsed job that's responsible, not the people who are trying to make the place better. We definitely shouldn't be building prisons just for capacity, because then when they are slated to close, it become another political football: "jobs", "soft on crime", so on and so forth. The solution is to stop jailing people to such a ridiculous degree - in the US it's basically j-curved since the '90s.