It's been a long long time (if it ever existed) where US prisons gave a crap about rehabilitation. It's always been about punishment first, then keeping society

It's been a long long time (if it ever existed) where US prisons gave a crap about rehabilitation. It's always been about punishment first, then keeping society "safe" second. And studies have consistently shown that the death penalty acts as no deterrent to murder; I would suspect the same would show that other crimes are not deterred by the threat of prison. Too many crimes are a result of impulse control failures in individuals.