> But I am personally not convinced that sending someone "to jail for a long, long time" is the solution. How is that productive? At least for murder, one of t

> But I am personally not convinced that sending someone "to jail for a long, long time" is the solution. How is that productive? At least for murder, one of the strongest predictors of whether a person will kill is if they've killed before. So prison is productive because it makes it more difficult (though not impossible) for a person to keep killing.