Maybe we should stop seeing people who are violent as people that we need to punish and start seeing them as people who need help. I'm not a specialist, but I'

Maybe we should stop seeing people who are violent as people that we need to punish and start seeing them as people who need help. I'm not a specialist, but I'd think that giving someone a job, a place to live, and a weekly therapy session would do a lot more to prevent future crime than locking him up with a bunch of other violent offenders that have nothing to do all day long. Sometimes restricting someones freedom is necessary to protect others. But right now we are doing it backward: we lock people up after they committed a crime, but there's very little that we can do to protect potential victims before it is too late.