The two approaches are not mutually exclusive No one wants to put more people in jail. I think poster is saying instead, policy should not encourage more crim

The two approaches are not mutually exclusive No one wants to put more people in jail. I think poster is saying instead, policy should not encourage more criminals. If you have X pool of existing law breakers, policy goal is to keep a % subset of X out of the prison system. However, policy is increasing the size of X, to X+1.