Have you considered that punishment may not actually create a positive outcome for society as a whole? Generally speaking most people come out of prison as hard

Have you considered that punishment may not actually create a positive outcome for society as a whole? Generally speaking most people come out of prison as hardened criminals and not reformed. Prison historically has been intended to kill the prisoners prior to release. Either we need accept we're trying to kill people or we need to realize that punishing people doesn't work in most cases and instead work on CORRECTING people (it is the department of the corrections after all). TL;DR; retributive punishment is useless and produces worse results.