I am very concerned about stronger penalties that are there to coerce someone to do something rather than be proportional as a deterrent or whatever else the le

I am very concerned about stronger penalties that are there to coerce someone to do something rather than be proportional as a deterrent or whatever else the legal system is supposed to do in a given country. It puts you too much at the mercy of the police. This reminds me of the strategy prosecutors are using in the US where they are piling insane amounts of charges on to force the supposed criminal to take a plea bargain instead of going to court. To me that's a quick path to where legal systems go to die.