How often does the nightly news report on the person who didn't go to prison for some minor crime and was able to turn their life around via other interventions

How often does the nightly news report on the person who didn't go to prison for some minor crime and was able to turn their life around via other interventions? The safest thing to do would be put everybody in prison, then there would be no crime, but we don't do that. You have to judge the system in a global context. I'm not suggesting that the system is perfect, but measuring it based exclusively on the existence of repeat offenders isn't fair. A lot of people's lives are ruined due to overly harsh prison sentences for minor crimes, and their situations matter as well.