Corporate "jail time" would be indistinguishable from "death penalty" in practice: suspending a corporation's ability to engage in contracts and do business bas

Corporate "jail time" would be indistinguishable from "death penalty" in practice: suspending a corporation's ability to engage in contracts and do business basically means the corporation rapidly falls apart, existing contracts run out or get cancelled, employees don't receive pay checks, etc. Corporations are basically a sizable chunk of the privileges people lose when going to prison but without the physical reality that guarantees a continued existence. In practice that physical reality manifests itself in the form of the actual human beings running the company and making its decisions, obviously. So considering a corporation is more like a person without direct agency that relies on the care and supervision of trusted persons, it seems obvious misbehaviour of corporations should be treated as criminal negligence on the part of its caretakers, the people running it. Alternatively the people running it are the corporation's physical manifestation and therefore the ones who should go to prison if the corporation is jailed (like how when a natural person is sent to prison, they are physically imprisoned rather than merely having their bank accounts frozen). But all this navelgazing aside, the US is a country where civil assets can be arrested as suspected accomplices to crimes without bringing up any charges against their owners (civil forfeiture). It's clear the "corporations are people" narrative only exists to let certain people have their cake and eat it too, not to make any sense if taken literally.